Heroes (2013)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Hansjörg Thurn

Writers:

Derek Meister, Simon X. Rost

Stars:

Christiane Paul, Hannes Jaenicke, Emilia Schüle

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Christiane Paul	...	Sophie Ritter
Hannes Jaenicke	...	Marc Weber
Emilia Schüle	...	Jana Weber
Jannis Niewöhner	...	Tobias
Christine Neubauer	...	Rosi Wieczorek
Armin Rohde	...	Willi Wieczorek
Yvonne Catterfeld	...	Andrea Weber
Heikko Deutschmann	...	Karl Loiser
Ingo Naujoks	...	Andy
Adnan Maral	...	Zoran
Sebastian Ströbel	...	Sascha Galitzki
Dominic Boeer	...	Rico Galitzki
Julian Weigend	...	Marek Kollberg
Michael Brandner	...	Lutz Bornhak
Jürgen Schornagel	...	Hans Heinrich

Storyline

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 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. West of Geneva. At the largest research laboratory in the world, with a budget of one billion dollars, an experiment has failed that is going to throw the whole world off its hinges. Scientists from 80 nations have simulated the Big Bang with the so-called 'God Machine', the world's greatest particle accelerator, and thereby created a Black Hole. Reaching Geneva turns into a tour de force for our heroes, through a country that like its neighbors is in a state of total emergency, but equally into a time of human encounters. A time, where courage overcomes the fear and human beings do not shut themselves off but take decisive...

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Plot Keywords:

german politician | helicopter crash | explosion | sweaty face | dirty face | 

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Taglines:

The fate of the world is in their hands.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

Germany Austria

Language:

German

Release Date:

3 October 2013 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Heroes

Filming Locations:

Lower Saxony, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

EUR8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dreamtool Entertainment, RTL, Epo-Film Produktionsgesellschaft

Technical Specs

Runtime:

143 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

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.