Urban Explorer

2011
Urban Explorer
5.2| 1h28m| en| More Info
Released: 08 September 2011 Released
Producted By: Rialto Films
Country: Germany
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.urbanexplorer-themovie.com/
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Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!

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movieswithgreg OK, here's the deal. The only way you're going to think this is a good movie is if you're a fanboy of the so-called horror genre, because only fanboys will overlook all the obvious shortcomings of this low-budget, simplistic, psycho-with-no-name killer, cat and mouse game in the dank, initially foreboding, but ultimately monotonous tunnels of Berlin, where the usual pretty boys and pretty girls make an underground mountain of illogical, counter-intuitive, anti-survival decisions that lead to conclusions you no longer care much about, which in my case, stopped about ten minutes after they encountered their coveralled boogeyman with his inexplicable glaring and exaggerated gesturing. The violence is jumbled through cheat-cut closeups more commonly associated with high school production values, albeit a bit slicker. To call this a "classic," or "best of anything," is to make a sad admission about how uninteresting and unvaried that the modern whore-or genre really is. This is just another also-rans unimpressive, un-psychological chapter in the apocrypha of male-virgin eye candy that frighten only the most unsophisticated of shut-in teens.
ameliaj247 I loved it and hated it at the same time to be honest. I loved it because I am biased in favour (yes, I am British and spell it this way) of Movies set in underground locations so this was a 'must watch' for me although I am not usually a fan of slasher/hunter style horror. This Movie is, as some as pointed out, not exactly 'original', show me a Horror Movie made in the last decade that IS 'original'? However, the film plot runs at a good pace, has an interesting story and lots of gore (one scene of which was too much for me to stomach despite having seen all the Hostel and Saw Movies without flinching....much). I hated it because of the total predictability of the main male character failing to finish off the bad guy when he had the opportunity (not listed this as a spoiler because it's pretty much a given with a Movie like this), the female character could have done the job herself here but she, also, failed to do so (no surprise there) but this is par for the course with most horror flicks so c'est la vie! This Movie is most certainly worth a viewing, it is no masterpiece but it is miles better than most of the crud available at the moment.
Jason VanMason If all you want is a spooky movie with monsters and atmospheric settings, this is as good as any. If you expect anything like a logical story, well, maybe not so good. The film depends on a common misconception; every big city has endless tunnels beneath and they are all connected as well as lost and forgotten. And this is nonsense. Unlike Paris which has quarries beneath it, most cities do not have anything like a connected maze of tunnels. And most tunnels, even abandoned subway stations, are used for something and are well documented.This film, like others of its type, substitutes basements or even abandoned factories with their windows covered for underground areas. One look at the brickwork of these phony tunnels is enough to reveal the sets are ordinary locations dressed as spooky tunnels. The huge size of many of the locations should tip off the viewer that they are seeing nothing more mysterious than an old warehouse.And our explorers are totally unprepared for their adventure. The have no hardhats, no first aid kit, no proper clothing, nothing but a few dinky flashlights. If not for their "guide" somehow toting 5 sets of rubber waders in his tiny backpack they would never have made it through a flooded tunnel. We are further told that scrawny teens can climb 50 feet, hand over hand, on a thin rope. And thats up and down. Small wonder the actual climbing is not shown! And of course the abandoned tunnels are full of improbable characters who survive on.....what....rats? If you like to suspend your disbelief totally, you will probably enjoy this film. But if, like me, obvious plot holes spoil the experience you may wish you watched something else.
steelgaze I felt like I really needed to rip this movie a new one since I didn't see a lot of mention of a point I thought is glaringly obvious. Another reviewer mentioned it, and I feel like the whole experience of the film was ruined due to the lack of subtitles.I can forgive a lot of things for a movie; bad scripts, accents, usage of foreign languages, etc. I do indeed love to watch foreign films, but only when I understand what the hell is going on. The first 30 minutes of the movie is fine, since most of the dialog is spoke in English. I thought it was pretty good for a typical horror, and I liked the setup. It is believable, straightforward setup.After that, it all goes downhill and everything simply switches to German. I suppose it is done intentionally since some of the characters didn't know German but I don't think that's an excuse to not include subtitles. Knowing almost no German, I at least wasn't at a complete lost with the general direction of how the film is taking, especially being a horror genre but it really detracted from my experience. If it had subs? I'd probably give it a seven.