Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

TdSmth5 Clare is an Australian tourist just arriving in Berlin. She's quiet, passive, dull, but smiles a lot. Her first night she drinks on the roof top of her hostel with some people. She's mainly there to take photographs of DDR architecture/life. Next day she meets a guy and they get along well. He shows her around seems to be attracted to her but is reluctant to take things further. On the second day they meet he's not reluctant anymore. He takes her to his place. Next day she wakes up to discover she can't get out. The guy returns and claims to have left the key somewhere. Next day same thing. She's looked up again. She tries to make a call but her SIM card is missing from her phone. He doesn't have much to say to his captive rather pretends she's his girlfriend and this is business as usual.Clare in her passivity doesn't really make any serious attempts at escape or attack. The apartment they're in is in some empty complex. The window are reinforced so she can't do much but break the first glass layer. Even though the apartment is fully furnished there isn't much she can use in terms of tools or weapons. Days and days go by. He's a gym teacher at a school, one student gets interested in him and visits the place, but even then Clare obediently stays quiet and put. His dad is a professor and dies at some point. We don't even know how much time goes by in the movie. Clare goes between weirdly adapting to her captive girlfriend status to occasionally going on the offensive. He brings her the dad's dog and after she gets attached to it he gets rid of it. He takes her out in the Winter but again she only makes a half-baked attempt at getting out of this situation. After nears two hours of this we learn whether Clare can escape or not.Berlin Syndrome is one slow, boring, uninteresting, long, and pointless movie. As is standard of Hollywood movies and "artsy" movies as well these days, little is said. And of course, as little happens, all you're left to do is watch this thing unfold in slow-motion. That this movie is based on a book doesn't make it any better. Thy try to make something about books and art. But it doesn't amount to much. We learn little about this guy, other than he can't stand his mother, so maybe something went on there. The lovely Teresa Palmer for some reason is made to look much less lovely without eyebrows. So there's not even much to see in that regard, although there is a bit of nudity which earns this movie 2 stars. Otherwise there nothing to see here. Had they trimmed this to 1 hour and 20 minutes, made Teresa to look good, added some more characters, they could have had a decent mediocre movie.

samanthagiavia I just told you what this movie was to save anyone else watching this the time. By the movies description you might expect to see a suspense,thriller or even horror movie. Berlin Syndrome is none of those. I assure you the only person being tortured in this film is the viewer. The movie goes along at a snails pace and the constant slow motion scenes with the violin music doesn't help. It just reminds me that I should of picked something better to watch. The redeeming part of the movie is Theresa Palmer. The bad part of the movie are the annoying decisions her character makes. I won't say much since I want to keep this review spoiler free but the movie just doesn't do enough of anything.Theresa Palmer's role is to play the dumbest woman in the world who for some reason cannot figure out how to escape an apartment or fend off her kidnapper when she pretty much is left at home alone days on end with nothing to do but think about escaping. I think any woman would of thrown a hot pot of boiling water on the kidnapper and made a run for it or maybe just hit him over the head with something heavy. There's scenes in the movie when you think that will happen because it should happen but it doesn't. This is a movie where you watch a character make dumb decision after dumb decision and all you can say to yourself is WHY!?!. The Berlin Syndrome part or whatever she becomes dependent on her kidnapper if it's not obvious by the title and description but why is the question. He doesn't torture her enough to make her fear him and be compliant and he doesn't talk enough to brain wash her. The plot just seems to move along with little actually driving it. He's interested in her I guess because she corrects his bad English? and she's interested in him because??? He's a foreign man and she's in a foreign land looking for an exciting experience? I guess it's possible the way it went down in the movie she trusted him before knowing him but everything after that makes no sense. I won't even address the ending where another character decides to do everything but what a normal person would in that situation just for the sake of the dramatic plot.I guess I should just leave it at that. If you're into slow love stories like the kind on Lifetime where the guy turns out to be a psycho or something than this is EXACTLY like those just with a bigger budget. If you were a poor sap expecting to watch an exciting movie that's maybe well I dunno interesting this certainly is not that movie.

drtodds "Berlin Syndrome" (Australia 2017) One of the newly available releases on Netflix from my Max Riemelt. A good (but not great) psychological thriller set in Berlin. Clare (played by "Point Break's Teresa Palmer) is a young Australian woman on vacation in Berlin. Andi (Riemelt) is a local high school teacher who she meets on the street/in a bookstore. What was intended to be a one night stand turns very wrong when she awakens the next morning to find herself locked inside Andi's isolated and (soon to be revealed) well-fortified apartment. The remainder of the film, which I would estimate spans a period of 6-9 months, is focused on Clare adapting and attempting to survive her captivity. There are clues that her predesessor didn't fare so well! Both leads did a decent job portraying their respective characters and the cinematography and sound editing were eerie and added to the film's overall feeling of tension. Critiques: the ending was pretty stale given all of the build-up and there was really no explanation of Andi's psychosis and behavioral anomalies (some hints perhaps but nothing at all concrete). Worth a look....just don't set your expectations too high. [3/5]

jtncsmistad A German guy with serious mommy abandonment issues takes a fetching Aussie tourist home in the new movie "Berlin Syndrome". Only he has no plans for her vacation abroad to continue.It's about a half hour too long, there are baffling scenes that don't take us anywhere, others rife with heavy-handed foreshadowing and the ending is disappointing. But look at it this way.It's nowhere near as unsatisfying as the unpleasantness this poor lass endures as the permanent guest of an unhinged host.