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Heroes

Original title: Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
  • TV Movie
  • 20132013
  • 2h 23m
IMDb RATING
2.1/10
606
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POPULARITY
64,229
4,534
Heroes (2013)
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On 21. September 2013, telecommunications satellite APV-1312 belonging to French media group CanalDouble crashes into the Brandenburg Gate, cutting a trail of destruction as far as the Reich... Read allOn 21. September 2013, telecommunications satellite APV-1312 belonging to French media group CanalDouble crashes into the Brandenburg Gate, cutting a trail of destruction as far as the Reichstag. 56 delegates die. Thirteen minutes later, all around the world more and more satelli... Read allOn 21. September 2013, telecommunications satellite APV-1312 belonging to French media group CanalDouble crashes into the Brandenburg Gate, cutting a trail of destruction as far as the Reichstag. 56 delegates die. Thirteen minutes later, all around the world more and more satellites plummet to earth. Communications, as we have known them, are collapsing everywhere. We... Read all
IMDb RATING
2.1/10
606
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POPULARITY
64,229
4,534
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    • Director
      • Hansjörg Thurn
    • Writers
      • Derek Meister
      • Simon X. Rost
    • Stars
      • Christiane Paul
      • Hannes Jaenicke
      • Emilia Schüle
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    • Director
      • Hansjörg Thurn
    • Writers
      • Derek Meister
      • Simon X. Rost
    • Stars
      • Christiane Paul
      • Hannes Jaenicke
      • Emilia Schüle
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    • 6User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Yvonne Catterfeld and Emilia Schüle in Heroes (2013)

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    Christiane Paul
    Christiane Paul
    • Sophie Ritter
    Hannes Jaenicke
    Hannes Jaenicke
    • Marc Weber
    Emilia Schüle
    Emilia Schüle
    • Jana Weber
    Jannis Niewöhner
    Jannis Niewöhner
    • Tobias
    Christine Neubauer
    • Rosi Wieczorek
    Armin Rohde
    Armin Rohde
    • Willi Wieczorek
    Yvonne Catterfeld
    Yvonne Catterfeld
    • Andrea Weber
    Heikko Deutschmann
    • Karl Loiser
    Ingo Naujoks
    Ingo Naujoks
    • Andy
    Adnan Maral
    Adnan Maral
    • Zoran
    Sebastian Ströbel
    • Sascha Galitzki
    Dominic Boeer
    Dominic Boeer
    • Rico Galitzki
    Julian Weigend
    Julian Weigend
    • Marek Kollberg
    Michael Brandner
    Michael Brandner
    • Lutz Bornhak
    Jürgen Schornagel
    Jürgen Schornagel
    • Hans Heinrich
    Miguel Herz-Kestranek
    Miguel Herz-Kestranek
    • Siggi Hölder
    Elena Uhlig
    Elena Uhlig
    • Claudia Görner
    Grit Boettcher
    Grit Boettcher
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    • Director
      • Hansjörg Thurn
    • Writers
      • Derek Meister
      • Simon X. Rost
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      Jonathan Dümcke and Jannis Niewöhne acted together in TKKG (2006).

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    5/10
    One hell of a ride
    One of the most entertaining movies I've seen all year for all the wrong reasons.

    The story is simple: satellites start to fall from the sky and the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has accidentally created a tiny black hole that is threatening Europe and a small group of children who just inexplicably happened to be visiting the place that very day. Not the worst set-up for a Roland Emmerich-type flick: a vaguely realistic set-up, over-the-top special effects, family drama in the times of catastrophe and cheesy heroism. However, "Heroes" took the competence and massive budget of the Hollywood disaster porno genre and replaced it with awful acting, a baffling script (complete with some uncomfortably patriotic lines from our dear chancellor) and a stunning lack of understanding in the fields of geography, geology, astronomy, computers, telecommunications and physics. How gravity actually works seems to elude the makers of this "film". To put it shortly: an absolute train wreck, that tries its hardest to use every cliché in the book and rip off every Roland Emmerich flick ever made but fails spectacularly.

    To put it even shorter: it's glorious!

    Absolutely everything in this movie is wrong, it has to be seen to be believed! I watched it with a good friend of mine, we had a couple of beers and at times laughed so hard we missed entire segments of dialog. The amount of stupid put into every vibrant piece of this masterful mosaic of awfulness is simply inspiring and might warrant a second viewing. If you are a trash-fan, this is your El Dorado. If you are a science aficionado, who loves to tear the implausibilities of popcorn movies apart, you will be kept busy and your brain might be slowly transformed into some kind of blissful yellow mush. If you just want to watch a good, entertaining movie you will be in great pain and I pity your soul.

    So, in conclusion I am not sure if I should give "Heroes" 1 or 10 stars. It is a marvelously dire use for your spare two hours if you expect an actual movie, but if you can get behind a lovable trash extravaganza, like battlefield earth or plan 9 from outer space I wholeheartedly recommend it. "Heroes" is so bad it's genius. It's the best kind of bad, there's not a single boring moment and the makers clearly tried to create an epic masterpiece to celebrate the German Unification day (October 3, the date this was broadcast) which makes their incompetence all the more gratifying for adherers of Schadenfreude and connoisseurs of the fine taste of bad cinema. "Heroes" has been tailor-made from the get-go to dissolve on impact into a sad, sticky liquid of failure, for us to wallow in and die a happy pile of human goo.

    My rating of 5 represents the middle of the road. My cineaste-self gave it a 1, my Ed Wood-fanboy self gave it a 10 so to speak. Choose for yourself.
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    • Release date
      • October 3, 2013 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • Austria
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
    • Filming locations
      • Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Dreamtool Entertainment
      • RTL
      • Epo-Film Produktionsgesellschaft
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      • €8,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 23 minutes
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