Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)

Just so...so bad

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie is great. Simply brilliant. Even if you try to retell the plot you'll miss the whole point, because this movie isn't about the chain of events - it's about the people, the characters, the life itself. There is not a single scene that falls out of the whole composition: even though the plot is not the key issue here, it still beautifully binds the whole story together, perfectly connecting all the dots. And have your tissues ready: no matter how many times I watch it I always cry at the end and I'm not usually very sentimental. As for my male friends who watched it with me several times they usually just stay very silent at the end. It is very emotional and overwhelming: both sad and somehow positive at the same time. I envy those who have not seen it and will watch it for the first time.

There is a play which it's context is like that in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". It's name is "Two subtract". Morever, we have watched other movie "Bucket List" before about two old man which scape hospital near their dead times. But "knockin' on Heaven's door" distinguish itself somehow from others by some different aspects. I think one of this different aspects exists about "Aura" concept! From my point of view, in this film there is an invisible aura around major characters and this aura protects them from all the dangerous things around them. Look at the sequence which they have been besieged from two sides by gangsters and police officers; however, they can run away. there is a spectacle Mise-en-scene here,too. Some vertical camera angles which shoot from up in the sky and exhibiting how that invisible aura protects two young man. "knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a lovable movie because there is an aura around it which make us an obligation for loving it!

This is a great example of Movie Making. Europeans are gr8 in Movie making.All of us are talking about the Lead roles. But "Abdul- Moritz" was fantastic in the film. With his Arabic accent he was gem in the movie. Jokes he tells in the Movie and his body language is simply fantastic.The lead roles are gr8. The storyline is simple and it is made into a real good movie.I saw this movie in Russia, but it was a gr8 experience. Hollywood where r you. don't remake it just dub it.I would recommend someone to dub it in English with all accents and real jokes and fun. It will be a Super Hit..why has nobody translated it yet.. Surprised...!!!Nice movie to laugh and release tension.

Man, I love this film. Propably one of the best movies ever done in German film history. Okay, there are not that much good movies which came out of Germany but let's pretend there were some, this would definitely be one of the best. It is just one terribly funny homage to Tarantino. It all starts with Schweiger's (who is considered to be one of Germany's worst actors) producing company named after Tarantino's part in Reservoir Dogs Mr. Brown. Then it goes on over the legendary "trunk-shots", the suitcases and some 1:1 copies of shots from Reservoir Dogs (when the two gangsters escape from the bank). The humor in this film is not that Tarantino-like. There are sometimes this subtle (more or less) violent situation comic things but all in all the film pretty much focuses on slapstick, which is the reason for me only rating this film with 8/10. In a nutshell a cool German movie which should be seen by anyone interested in somewhat German cinema. It's worth it.