Rage (2006)

I wanted to but couldn't!

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

"Wut" is definitely a masterpiece! And in my opinion it is unworthy for such a good drama to just play it in television. This film is a socio-critical drama, which describes a social focus in our society. Most of the German dramas avail themselves of clichés and play down, this one here is the first movie, which shows the hard reality - even when it is very exaggerated. But this is necessary for the main message of the movie. In addition to that director Züli Aladag has found the two most impressive actors ever for these roles: Oktay Özdemir ("Knallhart"), whose acting as gang leader Can is genius and August Zirner, who gives a great performance as father, who does not know how to deal with his son's problems...Aladag succeeded in making a critical view on the problematic situation of violence in German schools, compared with wrong integration. This movie could have also international success!

I've seen this film a few days ago and i'm still a bit angry about the time i wasted on it. If i had known how bad i gets in the second half, i wouldn't had started watching it. Basically, i'm not against German movies, there are even many German ones amongst my favorites, but this film is crap. The first sequence starts with break dancing Turkish juveniles with migration background (according to the German official's language). In fact, i'm living all my live in an area with a quite high proportion of foreigners, especially Turkish people and i've never seen or heard of Turkish break-dancers or basket-ballplayers. Maybe there are some on German streets, but i think this was only put into this film to satisfy the stereotype image of the unexperienced viewers. I could accept the subplot dealing with problems in the relationship of the young boy's parents and in fact the acting of all actors is solid. But after all a pretentious viewer has to admit, big parts of the screenplay is rubbish. The whole story is based on the young boys improbable naivety. After he got beaten repeatedly, he accuses his father, why his generation has had let so many violent people into Germany, just to declare friendship a few days later with the same boy, who is responsible, that he got beaten up a few days before. Maybe, this review has made you curious for this movie and in fact i can't keep you away from this film, but i can recommend you an similar film, which is also set in a similar surrounding and really worth watching it: Knallhart by Detlev Buck.

"Wut" ("Rage", "Fury", "Anger") is essentially three films, each one hopelessly mixed up with the other and therefor no film at all. If these made for TV film is anything at all, it does mostly resemble a screenwriter's idea badly in need of some additional thought.The first film is the most interesting aspect of this project. It deals with a young man, who has been born into a foreign country, a country that stays foreign to his parents but not to him. A country nonetheless that chooses to treat this young man as a foreigner. That's what fuels the protagonist's rage against the "system" and those who represent it. Can's tragedy is that he has become a German, whether he likes it or not, whether Germany likes it or not. I'm sure - though I can't proof it - that's the film (take not of the working title) director Aladag wanted to make in the first place.The second film deals with a totally inefficient, incompetent and in its core dysfunctional German family. Well bred, well taught, well to do losers. The son is stupid enough to join ranks with the young turks again and again, humiliation after humiliation. The father, a professor, may know his ways around books and lecturing halls, but has no idea about real life. The mother is not a written role at all but just there because there has to be a mother. It's Corinna Harfouch's achievement to let this nonety appear as something substantial. If "Wut" is discriminating against anybody or anything, it's discriminating against this German family, whose members act stupid because the script needs them to act stupid - otherwise the whole movie would simply implode into the void. "Wut" suffers from the same problem as did Hark Bohm's "Yasemin" almost twenty years ago. The Germans have to act stupid in order to set the much needed dramatic events in motion. No stupid Germans, no film.The third film is the most dispisible one. In allowing the young Turk to be the aggressor, the heavy it trumpets almost all the time: Taboo-breaking! Taboo-breaking! See here, we're not politically correct. Therefor we tell the truth. Rubbish! There are young Turks who are victims of the migration process their parents have thrown them into, and there are young Turks who made themselves a success story and there are young turks who are criminals. End of story. "Wut" isn't even the first film to cast its immigrants as the baddies. And it's no more true or false than the next film. What's best about it is the acting, the script is the worst part and the direction bounces from one extreme to the other.

shocking taboo-breaker! Can, a young German pusher / drug dealer of Turkish immigrant's background, terrorizes the entire family of a university teacher until the very end, beginning with son Felix (a perfect victim). I see specially the professor's woman's part within the conflict as an extremely fatal and unhelpful one, since pseudo-powerful and pseudo-emancipated. Are our liberal (over-?) civilized democracies still able to stop such destructive aggressive human beings like Can? ...Or Achmadineschad? Why could this film not been shown in the early evening (8.15 pm) as announced first? It's subject will be specially important for younger people! However, a subject overdue to deal with!