Other than its misogyny, the movie, stacked with try-hard hedonism, fails to provoke more than mild annoyance.
Rising High(Betonrausch)
Germany · 2020
1h 34m
Director Cüneyt Kaya
Starring David Kross, Frederick Lau, Janina Uhse, Anne Schäfer
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
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This is a competently crafted movie too shallow to come up with much reason why we should root for these people, and too derivative to make their vertiginous rise and fall more than forgettable formula entertainment.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The film’s plausibility-level isn’t perhaps as high as all that (it really works best as a period piece from the pre-2008 crash) but Kross brings to it a jaded, corrupted glamour.
The pitfalls — drugs, marriage (Janina Use) to an amoral hustler to happens to be a banker) — are tried and true, if not downright trite. But it starts well, finishes with a flourish and finds enough “Isn’t this rip-off cute?” moments to be worth your while.
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