A new Smutje (Murat Yilmaz) has just been hired for the
Killerbus team, so he asks his employers Two Face (Orhan Kümürcü) and
Christoph (Björn Gödde) what has happened to his predecessor:
Back in the days, when the old Smutje (Sefik Kirbas) was still with
them, the Killerbus team wanted to get back at Sergio Profit (Reiner
Schieberger), a gangsterboss who had wronged them ... but he's always
closely guarded by his bodyguard Karl (Mario Scarpellini). So they hire
whore Chantal (Soraya Lopez) to seduce Karl, and while Chantal and Karl
are at it, the Killerbus team storms Sergio's club, fires guns at
everybody in sight, then ties Sergio up to make him admit where he's
keeping whatever-it-is. He won't talk, but still, Smutje - for some reason
in a cheap dog costume - still finds it with Sergio's pet dog. With
whatever-it-is in their hands, the Killerbus team stuffs Sergio's cloths
with hamburgers, then they leave him tied up with his dog ... ouch.
Finally, Karl realizes he has been set up, and soon the film culminates
in a carchase, with the Killerbus team desperately trying to put the
pursuing car out of action by shooting at it ... but to no avail. In the
end though, Smutje throws himself onto Karl's car and effectively makes it
go off a bridge ... ouch.
Back in the now, the new Smutje realizes it was not such a good idea to
join the Killerbus team ...
The story of this film sounds mighty funny, and it also was intended
that way and even if good for a good laugh. And there's another thing one
can say about the film: It's totally stylish. And exactly this is Killerbus's
main flaw: The whole film spends quite so much time on style it frequently
forgets the story it's telling. Some scenes look like nothing more than a
videoclip - not at all helped by the popmusic accompanying them that has
nothing whatsoever to do with the plot, but still the lyrics of the song
are in one scene displayed onscreen ... now what was that all about. Plus,
several shots of the film just don't make the least of sense, they might
sure look pretty but they have not the least bit of connection to the film
one is watching. If Marc Fehse can restrain his style-over-content
attitude a bit and lose some of the embarassing coolness that permeates
the film, he could be a great director of action comedies (provided he has
the right script and good actors of course), if he goes on making films
like Killerbus, he is just a director of overlong, one-way video
clips ... which would be a waste of talent ...
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