Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Matthias Walser Just saw that movie for the first time and must admit it was excellent.Background: In the late 80's Berlin was not in the front line of two political systems, which divided the world, in fact it was an island far beyond that border. But also had it's "normal" social problems as a big city. There were a lot of houses empty because no one could say to whom they belonged. On the other side a lot of poor people, often runaways, drug addicted or just disappointed people with no money for housing. So looking back it's hard to say which were the real ambitions for someone to place a bomb in an empty house... the fact is, they did it.13 years later times changed, a whole country, even more a whole world changed. Berlin wasn't an island anymore it had become the capital of Germany once more. At this time the bomb, which former refused to explode, just did this in the moment this house was rent once again - wounding two people.And the six friends had to meet once again. But also their lives had changed. One lost his legs in "fighting the system" at a demo, his good friend stick with him to help him through his life as a cripple, still kind of "fighting the system". A girl just became a mother of two children. Another one a lawyer. The fifth one a CEO in his own very successful company. And last a woman, who started to travel the world instead of fighting it.It's just a selfish approach to defend their new lives against mistakes - really big and silly mistakes - they have done in the past as young wild idealists. It's not a political statement, it's even not about right or wrong, it's just about friendship and personal expectations from each other. They know society won't forgive them for their sins in the past neglecting at least 4 of them had become more or less successful members of society, so they end up fighting the system once again.Yes you have to like them, because they all like everyone of us selfish, friends, mother and father, successful, not successful. They just come out of it if they work together as a group of friends once more..

DTL The films that I have seen out of Germany are limited I admit, but the ones I have been seeing are just wonderful. I have added to my list of German favorites which include RUN LOLA RUN and THE HARMONISTS, the charming an edgy dramedy WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE? The characters in this film simply crackle. The plot about a reunion of 80's anarchists zooms along to its conclusion. The film is both funny and real.

Ralph Michael Stein Well acted and sharply filmed, "What to Do in Case of Fire" showcases six radical German protesters from the Eighties, four of whom have taken on Yuppie identities. Two, one whose legs were cut off by a police vehicle during a demonstration, and his buddy, an unreconstructed rebel a la Berlin variety, still hope for Der Tag (whatever that might be).This gang formerly used film to spread their message, insidiously splicing their propaganda takes into innocuous reels. A police raid results in the seizure of many reels of film which will implicate the six for their acts many years early. So what we have (predictably: no spoilers here) is a caper film, mostly comedy but with the requisite bitter dollop of drama - lost love as well as legs) in which the reunited sextet tries to figure out a way to get or destroy the films before the police have a sachertorte und popcorn screening.There are both funny and sad moments in this American-produced film. The acting is fresh while the underlying story is not exactly original. But...the German radicals of the Seventies and later weren't funny. They killed and destroyed. They didn't project, I'm sure, the endearing qualities of our cohort of six including a got-rich-in-the-market ad exec who boasts of a Manhattan pad and wears an "I Love Bill Gates" shirt.So a viewer has to put aside sensibilities and fears about the terrorism that is a constant part of our lives to enjoy this film. Okay, I did laugh a bit but I was uneasy as the group sought a solution that in real life could only result in bad things happening to many people. Slaptstick humor and terrorism? Belief really needs to be suspended.All that said, as film "What to Do in Case of Fire" hangs together and will be enjoyable for many.6/10. Available for rental on DVD.

SamRag I finally found a German film, with English subtitles at the DVD rental store. Having seen Til Schweiger in Driven recently I was excited to see him in an authentic German production. And the film starts out well as we see the 6 radical friends going from being anarchists to most of them living pretty normal live, even to the point of betraying their original believes. In some ways I think people that lived through this might have a depth of understanding which I'm lacking having been brought up in very protective environment in Iceland. Therefore for an outsider, I felt that the film should have spent a little bit more time on defining what they were objecting to, what drove them, if you like. And the film had a strange balance of reality and humor, which did work, though unusual. When the film neared to its closure I felt it lost height a bit, becoming a little bit too Americanized. Unusual and well worth seeing. 7/10