Rising High (2020)

What is the point of this misfire? Poor cousin of much better American movies. One can almost point to sources scene by scene. For anybody remotely familiar with reslities of modern Germany painful to watch.

Fmovies: What is not to like about this film? I can't for the life of me understand the poor reviews. Yes, there is some exaggeration but the amount of things it manages to achieve in a mere 90 minutes is pure finesse and awe inspiring. Likeable protagonist, decent story, outstanding execution. I loved it. The energy is infectious and the music was amazing.

+ Music + Acting + 90 odd minutes of energy + Great viewing

Simple, one-dimensional story. No depth in the figures. I rated the movie with three just to show a kind of friendlyness for the fact that they at least tried to create something interesting. But I can not understand why Netflix is promoting such an RTL-II level. They should better had made a serial out of it and gave all the main characters more time to develop and the fraud more cleverness and double and triple levels. Such simple bribes and frauds as shown in this movie are so far from both reality and originalness. I really was on the edge of not watching until the end and I have to resume that the whole movie finally just was a waste of time.

Rising High fmovies. Very bad directing, horrible one dimensional characters and poor acting. The story is as thin as a single sheet of paper. It was actually tough to watch till the end.

I will call this quite original, in german movie standards, its all comes to the question of money, how to do it, how to boost it , who to play fraudulent games against, and at the same time keep up the appearances in love and life.

its a genial story, with a fast shifting plot, where the whole story are flashbacks to the past during an interview made in prison. the twists and the spontaniousity are fun, the main actors are cute and high quality acting, the score are as usual electronica the german style with some extreme rythm sections that catches the spiritual wibes in the film.

so if you like the silent kind of heist, or fraud or racketeering or whatever its called without a kill and a bloody gore, but a fun and ingenious money making caracter, then the grumpy old man can recommend.

The film is typically German and that in the most negative sense imaginable. The dialogues seem to be copy-pasted from the most uncreative, blandest German evening series. The story itself seems interesting, but is completely overshadowed by the bad script, where nothing fits together. The camera work falls far short of its possibilities and seems outdated, even though the film is supposed to be from 2020. Especially the contourless leading actor, who seems more like the quiet banker from the town bank counter shortly after his apprenticeship, is supposed to play a cunning, charismatic financial swindler. It seems as if Woody Allen should embody the Terminator. The rest of the characters are just as much based on German TV stereotypes that it hurts. Even the fact that of all people the only two justice officials who get beyond a mere extra role have a clear migration background feels like well-intentioned, badly implemented and therefore grandiosely failed, which can also be used as an overall verdict on the movie.

If you are thinking about watching this film: Don't do it. Watch Wolf of Wall Street for the 20th time. The quality of this film has nothing to do with recent German successes such as Dark or Babylon Berlin; A very bad relapse into the dark television times of 10 years ago.