![]() ![]() Starting off with an intriguing concept and the unique underground Berlin setting, screenwriter Martin Thau and director Andy Fetscher (who also shoots and edits) rapidly squander their advantage with a prosaic visual style, weak characterizations and predictable plotting. ![]() Once there, the American couple gradually grasps that they may have been safer remaining in the tunnels awaiting rescue than in the clutches of the unstable Armin. Speaking only German, which Denis can grasp at a basic level but Lucia doesn’t understand at all, he helps them evacuate Kris back to his network of bunkers. Marie and Juna set off to find help on the surface while Lucia and Denis remain with their unconscious guide.Īssistance arrives sooner than expected with the appearance of Armin ( Klaus Stiglmeier), a hulking human castoff who calls the tunnels home. Their mission accomplished, the group begins the return trip, but an accident on a tricky tunnel crossing leaves Kris badly injured and in need of emergency medical care. The group’s initial passage through a series of debris-strewn tunnels of varying dimensions and decrepitude is fairly uneventful, aside from a run-in with some very nasty, violent thugs who may or may not be Neo-Nazis, sending a distinct frisson through the group.Īrriving at the walled-off chamber after some mildly exciting subterranean escapades, they break in and marvel at the murals depicting a Nazi paramilitary paradise of sleek, expressionless men, women and children. ![]() Their target is a rumored Nazi bunker adorned with Aryan imagery that authorities have supposedly sealed from the prying of contemporary fascists. ![]()
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