SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Lautlos" or "Soundless" is a German 90-minute crime thriller from 2004, so already almost 15 years old and here we have the first full feature film effort by Bavarian (indeed!) writer and director Mennan Yapo from his not too prolific career so far. For a rookie work, this film attracted quite a few big names as Król and Uhl are still very well-known today playing the two central characters. Berkel, Martinek and Kurtulus are familiar faces too for German film buffs and my fellow NCIS viewers will be glad to see Rudolf Martin in here actually around the same time he starred on the show. This is the story of a contract killer who ends his career and falls in love with a woman close to one of his final victims. Of course she does not know his identity, so she is out looking for the truth while police and the hitman's former exployers and colleagues are looking for our "hero" himself. Now Król is an actor you usually see playing likable troubled characters, so it is something different we got here from him. Oh wait, is it? Not really no. The script is written in a way where we don't really think about his past as a cold-blooded assassin, but are rather interested in his future and his relationship with Uhl's character. I personally am curious what the film would have looked like with Król and Berkel switching characters which actually could have been the better fit. We'll never know. Let me just say that there are inmdividual scenes in here that stand out in a negative way and have a really negative impact on the film overall, especially as there are no really outstanding scenes at the other end of the scale. The film, even in its best moments, is just solid. Another problem I personally had was that Król and Uhl did not have the greatest chemistry sadly and the age gap may have been one big problem, especially since Uhl always looks a bit younger than she is and Król looks older than he is. The weak scenes I mentioned earlier involve almost everything about Kurtulus' character. I like him as an actor, but here he or maybe just his character were not working in a convincing way at all. I would have loved to say that here we have a rare strong crime movie from Germany, but it is not the case and as a consequence I also did not care about the main character eventually in terms of if he would live or die. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended and my suggestion is for you to watch something else instead.

wrlang Soundless (lautlos) is about a hit man named Vicktor that falls for a one night stand that just happened to sleep with one of Victor's victims. Nina is sleeping in the victims bed just feet from Vicktor's 'soundless' hit. A detective named Lang that is sent in to solve the case, because of his ability to form close connections with the psyche of the hit man. Lang trains snipers how to kill, and formulates strategies on how to catch Victor using mild CSI like tactics. Lang discovers Victor's true identity and his unhappy childhood as Felix, the son of a gun maker who met an untimely end. Vicktor's mentor Martin is an old arms dealer friend of his dead father who gets the hit list and passes it on to Vicktor. In 'The Matador' style, Vicktor is racing against time to perform his last hit consisting of the very well guarded man who ordered the hit on Vicktor and Martin. Victor plans this hit while wooing Nina, hiding from Lang, and avoiding the hit men out to get him. Will Nina and Vicktor make the hit and escape from Lang to paradise found? The almost emotionless style fits well with the theme and should not be mistaken for bad acting. Soundless is definitely up to modern standards in film making.

armand32 "Lautlos" is a well done and surprisingly fresh contract killer movie, far the best German film in this genre I know. Choosing Joachim Krol, often playing the nice guy next door is an interesting idea that really works out well. Krol as Viktor/Felix is playing well against his stereotype and provides an intense portrait of a dedicated character whose life changes dramatically when he meets "Nina", played by Nadja Uhl.Andreas Berkel is nearly equally good as profiler "Lang", showing a hunter that is completely absorbed by his job. Among other things - I like the pacing of the story and it's sympathy for the main characters, two lost souls trying to come together against major obstacles. In the end, you cannot help to develop sympathy for the lonely guy living from death but striving for love. I was very satisfied to see Viktor escape in the end, finding love and peace (?). Even his hunter seemed to like this in the end. I definitely advise to see this one.

willyboy1973 Lautlos is a movie from Tom Tykwer's film company, and you can see his influence as a producer in the sometimes dreamlike, introvert sequences. The film is about a serial killer who finds love and subsequently plans to quit his old underground life. Joachim Król plays the silent hitman very well, he gives a hint of broken softness to the character so that it's easy to like him. The plot is also exciting enough to keep your attention, with the right balance between action and character development. The only big problem about this movie are the dialogues. They are deliberately artificial but in such an exaggerated way that they just spoil the whole thing. Still, with the Król-bonus, it's a 7 out of 10 for me.