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Some video clips around some lions are cut together and a story is told about a pride of lions. There are no background information given to suggest, that all the assumptions about the motives of the behavior we are seeing are more than just the product of the fantasy of the author. The story tells us stuff about family ties and enemy lions, but you could easily tell a very different story to the same pictures. The pictures themselves are partly good (a hunting sequence in the second half of the film) but sometimes random and meaningless. The title of this film uses the term "giant killers". I feel this gives us a view on the mindset of the producers. This was almost painful for me to watch to the end.

The plot is the same as in Random Hearts (1999). If you have seen the Sydney Pollack movie, you will know the story. First I doubt that this TV film is worth watching because it cannot be better than the expensive Hollywood production. But after watching the first minutes I found it well made and watched the whole thing.

In the original I had difficulties with the feelings that developed between the two leads. In Liebe nach dem Tod director Matti Geschonneck did a good job in showing the fragility and unsteadiness of these feelings. If you don't know the original, you will have 90 minutes of good entertainment. The actors did a great job.

This is quite a nice crime movie. Normal people, no foolish romantic side storyline, just a police woman with problems on her own searching for a missing girl. We just see her perspective and know as much of the crime as she does. This keeps you curious. Watching this film was entertaining for me for most of the time. Good for a Sunday evening on the couch. Nothing to think about afterwards.

The last minutes of this film pulled my overall rating down. The unreasonable constructed story and the very bad acting of the boy was hard to watch. The voice over telling us they lived happily ever after... this was horrible Hollywood style but did no favor to this film.