Bence Matyasi, Csaba Pindroch, Eszter Balla
The massive labyrinthine netherworld that is the Budapest subway system provides the stunning setting for 'Kontroll,' a high-style, high-speed romantic thriller in which the lives of assorted outcasts...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
Stats: 592 reviews
The setting feels more like a nightclub than a subway system. Cool scenes and music score, but the film tries to combine one too many genres to really grab hold of an audience.
Interesting, funny, thought provoking, all in all an exceptional and enjoyable film.
Eerie underground settings help this droll melancholic tale of unloved ticket inspectors, along with an eclectic score and the obvious affection the director has for society's outsiders.
Nice little film with a good balance of humour and thrills. While it has plenty of "strange quirky" characters, these have a dark edge, and never get too anoying or too silly. A shame that the director already got ate by the Hollywood machinery to do crappy and forgettable stuff.
Szofi: "[at subway vending machines] Nice place. Come here often?
Bulcsú: Only when I really want to impress a girl."...( read more)
Stylish and entertaining. Generally I don't like ambiguous endings and if you treat this movie as a thriller (about whodunit), you'd be disappointed since it is not clear in the end. I prefer the theory that the pusher was a different person and that the point of the movie repre...( read more)
great characters, but not enough development is my only real complaint. so much potential! overall pretty good though: fast, funny, violent, and quite interesting. also, i really want a cute bear suit now.
Absolutely loved this movie! All the character's are so awesome! I have ridden the Budapest Metro and I have been fined by a controller. Great Movie!
One of the best Hungarian movies of the last decade. A bit depressing but very interesting and thoughtful story (with funny situations and dialogues) about a guy who chose to live underground, in the Budapest subway system; never wanting to come to the brighter surface, as he doe...( read more)
Kontroll is the first work by a director who is clearly gifted and who has found a way to make a full-bore action movie on a limited budget. full review
These pieces come together, but they don't always fit. full review
Kontroll calls itself a thriller, and you will agree if you are excited by scenes of bored inspectors arguing with sullen straphangers. full review
It's the whooshing terror that fries your nerves to a frazzle. full review
Like many modern allegories, Nimrod Antal's tour de force of grime, fluorescence and destinationless velocity is more concerned with atmosphere than meaning. full review
succeeds largely on the basis of its mesmerizing surface full review
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