Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)

Hey guys, don't get me wrong, but this movie has changed the way my circle of friends talk to each other.(Kampmann die FETTSAU and thousand other phrases) I was born in Hamm/NRW, that's about 20 miles away from Unna, where this masterpiece was filmed. The Characters, the story, the locations, the humor are perfect. We have discerned ourselves in the way the characters talk, in the way they think and in the way they act. This is a story about friendship, about adventures and about our culture. Only Peter Thorwart, who was born in Unna, was able to meet the kernel of this region. I was never a fan of comedy, and it is not easy to get me laughing, but this movie is thoroughly brilliant. A film about our region couldn't be better put in the limelight. I love it, my friends love it, all people between 20 and 30, who live in this region love this movie, because it's word-for-word cult!

Fmovies: I have been thinking for a long time now that a movie better than Mullholland Drive would never be made. I didn't know than that there actually is a movie, made one year earlier, that can take such a huge knockout on David Lynch's Classic movie. Bang BOOM Bang is the best movie ever, and to put it in the same box as Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski, is completely wrong. It is closer to Guy Richie's Snatch and Lock Stock than any other movies. But where Guy's movies fail and become a bit boring, Peter Thorwarth's BBB keeps going, without any boring scenes. It's funny, well made, full of action, and with GREAT acting! If you like Lynch, Fincher, Richie, Besson, Coppola, Kubrick, Jackson, Moore and everybody else that are able to make a good movie, you shouldn't miss this one. I haven't stopped laughing yet!

It took a little while, but after a first attempt with KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR Germany has finally caught up with the typical postmodern gangstermovie of the 90s. BANG, BOOM, BANG, Peter Thorwarth's feature film debut after two great short films, doesn't have to hide before the likes of PULP FICTION or LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS.

A bunch of losers and small-time criminals are after the key to a large amount of money, but their plans to get it keep collliding and they all get into deeper and deeper trouble. What I really like about the main characters, is that they stay relaxed and laid back and only occasionally get fits of panic. Why worry about missing money that you owe to a hardened criminal if you still can play soccer, drive your car fast or smoke a joint ?

The music by the "H-Blockx" is good, the cinematography is OK, but the best things about the movie are the actors (down to the smallest cameo appearance) and the script with many twists and turns and a lot of quotable lines. As you might guess the language is rude and very un-PC which fits perfectly to the 'Ruhrgebiet' (Germany's industrial heart) where the film takes place.

Did I mention already that this is one of the funniest German movies ever ? Hilarious and German an oxymoron ? See BANG, BOOM, BANG and you will rethink about that notion.

Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding fmovies. a really great movie, it should have been translated into English, it probably would have had a great success at the box office! or probably not, because it is rather one of those movies, you better watch at home with your buddies, with beer, coke, chips and perhaps some weed. sometimes Germans are able to make great movies - but only when they do their own stuff!

by the way, everybody has a favorite scene in that movie: mine is, when the garage-guy points at the line the safe made, from there where it was robbed to the garage! great characters! great movie! watch it!

WERNER

Damn, I love this movie. It's not only Pulp Fiction in German, it's more. I've seen this movie when it was played in Unna. I've played personally against Tus Holzwickende, the football club which is mentioned in the movie. This movie is a movie about the society, about the culture of the outskirts of the famous "Ruhrgebiet". I love Unna, i love those small cities around (Menden *g*) I know all those weed-smoking dudes and this film is a monument just created for us. A 10 of course.

this is definitely the best German comedy movie ever. i cant't get tired of watching it over and over again. i hope there is/ will be an English version of this movie some time so that everyone can enjoy this masterpiece of comedy.

some people say Germans can't make good comedy movies. this one proofs them wrong. oliver korittke plays his role of the pot smoking, always chilling, constantly video-watching "Keek" so gorgeous that it seems to be impossible not to like him.

if there is no English version of this film available, learn German - it's worth it!