Run Lola Run

While there's much substance behind the style, its caffeine-rush rhythm sets the blood pumping.

Tykwer ups the adrenalin with a fast-forward technique that gives instant backgrounders on some of the people Lola flashes by. It's dizzying, almost like having your life flash before your eyes. But it's a rush, just like the movie.

Though it doesn’t deliver a Shyamalanian twist or create the revelatory, encompassing new world of The Matrix, it offers spare, high-velocity action with spectacular style, ornamented with ribbons of philosophical mischief.

Teenagers with a taste for the offbeat may enjoy.

Thank god for Run Lola Run’s electrifying playfulness or its exploration of the butterfly effect would feel too glib by half.

Lola dabbles in the metaphysics and gamification of that subgenre, but with an independent spirit that tries a lot, refreshingly explains very little, and above all, feeds on the rush.

RUN LOLA RUN is the kind of film you might see once, whether in the theater or at home, and never forget it.

Run Lola Run is a thinker worthy of discussion and dissection in film classes everywhere.

Tom Tykwer’s breakthrough, breakneck <i>Run Lola Run</i> set the German filmmaker’s international career in motion in 1998.