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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Die neun Leben des Tomas Katz
UK/Germany 2000
produced by Caroline Hewitt, Hans W. Geissendörfer for Strawberry Vale Films, Geissendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion, G2 Films
directed by Ben Hopkins
starring Thomas Fisher, Ian McNeice, Tony Maudsley, William Keen, Andrew Melville, Trevor Thomas, Tim Barlow, Tilly Blackwood, Kiki Kendrick, Amelia Curtis, David de Keyser, John Ramm, Janet Henfrey, Boyd Clack, Paul Ritter, Tara Savage, Callum Savage, Oliver Parkes, Joseph Greig, Joan Oliver, Colin Wetherall, Sean Albuquerque, Jason Thorpe, Togo Igawa, Stephen Pye, Yvette Richardson, Steven O'Donnell, Toby Jones, Sophie Bevan, Andrew Kotting, Graham Lawson, Francesca Dowd, Sadie Walters, Asif Kapadia, Kris Krishnamma, Jamille Jinnah, Noah Taylor, David Farr, Kim Noble, Tim Potter, Thomas Q.Napper
story by Ben Hopkins, Rob Cheek, screenplay by Thomas Browne, Ben Hopkins, music by Dominik Scherrer
review by Mike Haberfelner
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No (Thomas Fisher) comes out of nowhere and heads for London, one after
another taking the identity of a cab driver, the Minister for Fish, the
underground controller, a young boy, a wheelchair bound man, a
TV-personality, a watchman and Vice Admiral Nelson, and creating (often
supernatural) havoc as each and any of them, like declaring war on a
Scottish village, sealing the London subway off the upper world, having the bank
of England's entire assets transferred to a pensioners' account, committing
infanticide via television and so on. Scotland Yard soon gets wise to the
weird goings-on all over town, and its blind chief (Ian McNeice) takes
care of investigations personally, since he knows the solution is to be
found on the astral plane. However, he is unable to stop the total
destruction (or rather downsizing) of London, which No has put in the
hands of a naive security guard (Paul Ritter), and the chief only catches
up with No on the astral plane when it's much too late, now learning
there's nothing that could have been done anyways ... A crazy
supernatural comedy/satire that features quite a number of hilarious and
ingenious ideas ... and yet, it is far from a perfect movie. Problem is that
everyone was aparently trying too hard to create a masterpiece, thus many
poetic shots and video clip like musical interludes have slipped into the
movie that
are as unnecessary to the narrative as they are disruptive to the film's
pace, and on the other hand some of the humour is too broad to be even
remotely funny, thus alienating all more distinguishing viewers. And the
pseudo philosophical ending makes very little sense indeed ... Still, The
Nine Lives of Tomas Katz isn't a bad film at all, it's a pretty
average yet at times very funny comedy that's lightyears from what it
could have been.
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