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As painful as the UK version, but as funny as the US version (if you watch it in German). A nuanced and beautifully scripted critique of corporate life in Germany spanning "Karrieremacherei" (climbing the corporate ladder), sexism, faking it until you make it, ageism...everything is there. And holding it all together is Christoph Herbst who performs his role superbly.

Prepping an offended law student for a debatting compeitition is the "penance" that a professor must undergo for some inopportune words. The movie follows a fairly predictable path of social burden that inhibits ascendancy. But the film deploys a heavy treacle of aestheticism to cover over the cracks. A real missed opportunity to speak to the realities of immigrants in Getmany.

Nothing of the plot survives this train wreck journey. Sure if you are a Liam Neeson fan then you want to see his family threatened, you want him to outsmart his enemies and you want to see him in a fight...

...but what is everyone else doing on the train? Things get off to such a bad start that most would have gotten off at the first stop! And its not just because of all the hand and gun fighting. If I had to put up with Liam Neeson's terrible conversational style then I'd gladly get off and wait for the next train.

Even the premise of the whole movie, the movement of a crucial witness using public transport, is just wierd. Don't cops in the US have cars? Couldn't someone just have picked her up?

Though if your suspension of disbelief skills are supernatural then you might actually enjoy this train wreck!