Limbo

Bad acting (especially from Semmelrogge). Confusing script! Better do other things wirh your time.

It not often happens I´m not eating my popcorn box 🍿completely or thought about leaving a movie (2 people out of about 20 did). Well, last time it was the sneak preview of Charlies Angels, if you know what I mean.

I hoped troughout the whole movie for a real plot twist or more excitement.There was nothing. No character development, everthing predictable. I would not even watch it on television for free. Why did they film a movie with nearly the same topic as "Bad banks"?!

They advertised with the "one-shot"- technique and maybe I don´t get the advantage of this. But I don´t want to see the person walk up and down a starway in a 3rd-person view half of the movie without a real contribution to the story..maybe a simple cut had helped here?!

Of course Martin Semmelrogge had a few funny talks but it didn´t helped the movie to be good.

Large part of the film was shot in a former 25kv substation in Munich (Englischer Garten), a multi-part cubic building complex in exposed brickwork with flat roofs, workshop and wheelhouse, built according to plans of the municipal building authority 1930/31, which now houses a few companies. At the beginning the large building are the Highlight Towers, the second highest building in Munich and one of the few rare skyskrapers there (because of a referendum in 2004 which forbids buildings higher then the Frauenkirche). It is a one-shot-film in cooperation with the Filmhochschule München (university of television and film munich).

Limbo is a one take film like Victoria. but its not so clever constructed. The story and caracters can't convince, their motivations didnt react to me.

most of the film takes place in an illegal fight club. the camera follows the characters through much to long corridors, that only connect one dialogue with the next. camerawork is mediocre, with many much too close closeups, lazy focus and not that interesting viewing angles.

the story is quite boring, dealing with illegal money, banks and a underworld king. Something you have seen 1000 times before.

wait until it will be shown on TV and dont spend any money on it.

I have not seen the show Bad Banks, so I cannot comment or confirm what another reviewer is saying about this movie. So maybe this is or feels like a bad copy of series to him and others. Totally legit to say that and I can see where or how he was rather dissapointed in the movie at hand.

Technically this isn't bad, which I reckon even the other person is willing to admit. No matter how much he doesn't like the overall end product. Having said that, the actors are quite fine overall, with especially Semmelrogge shining through a lot. The one shot is a gimmick, you may or may not care about. The story itself is ok to decent - I've seen worse, I've seen better