One Way (2006)

just watch it!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Quite a nice show,though the genre is illegible.Thriller?Crime?Drama?I can even include it in fantasy or poetic.I like the end.Eddie Schneider is just like me,except for our different professional specialties.Even my imaginary end of that serious to-be-married relationship is like just that,sentimental farewell in falling leaves after going through the madding highs and lows...The black general is an awesome concept!He doesn't contribute too much,and isn't overdrawn,instead he just appears exactly where we want to see him in the film as well as in our own real-life imagination.All of this is to say,6.1 on average is literally an undervalued score.

The young advertising executive Eddie Schneider is am ambitious man. He has an appetite for sex as well, and this will get him in hot water, sooner rather than later. He is living with Judy Birk, the daughter of his boss at the agency. Little does she realize what goes on with her young stud when he leaves their place!Eddie's popularity ultimately gets him in trouble. His future brother-in-law, Anthony Birk, who has had Eddie followed, has gathered enough evidence to end his engagement. Anthony also has eyes for Eddie's assistant and one-time interest, Angelina Sable, who he wants to bed. Angelina, a young woman fighting the demons of having gone through a rape when she was a teenager, proves to be the wrong person for Anthony to mess with. When Anthony turns dead, Eddie turns against Angelina, something he will later regret, since only the girl knows what really is going on."One Way", written and directed by Reto Sambileni, is a film which pretends to have been made in New York, but just by looking at it, one realizes it was filmed in different parts of the world, with some exterior photography to give the impression this was American. Then, there is the performance of Til Schweiger, an intense German actor, that tries hard to give the impression he is the slick New Yorker, he is not. Mr. Schweiger bears an uncanny resemblance to Anderson Cooper, minus the gray hair.The actors, mainly Canadians, do what they can with the thin material they were given to perform. Eric Roberts is one of the lucky ones with his defense lawyer. Sebastien Roberts, who plays Anthony, has some good moments. Lauren Lee Smith, is not quite convincing as Angelina, the girl with a dark past. There is an absurd prologue involving a young Angelina as she is being hunted by some youths, as a US general comes to make things right for her.

the trailer was able to catch my attention... but what i didn't expect was to see a brutal rape in a 10-min-scene. what were they thinking? (why) did we have to watch that?? the rape scene is important for the story - but they could have told the audience that one had happened or just adumbrate one, instead of forcing the viewers to watch that brutality without a warning.without that particular scene, the film wouldn't be so bad, but probably a waste of valuable life time anyway.in the end we all left angry and full of aggressions.don't watch this film, you will regret it.

My husband and I saw "One Way", the new movie of the German actor Til Schweiger. There were no coughing, no feet-stamping and no murmurs to hear during the whole movie. Even at the end the silence continued. Than my husband broke it, saying: "Man, what a good movie was that!" The story and the pictures are very intense. They catch the viewer's whole attention which you can hardly escape.The topic of the movie is rape. It's about guilt and atonement.About law, morals and justice.In a today's criticism I read the sentence: "Sometimes it is the start of a movie that gives rise to doubts. In "One Way", the movie of the Swiss Reto Salimbini, a girl is followed by several men and raped brutally, as a black figure wearing a uniform (Michael Clareke Duncan) appears and butchers the wrongdoers with a machine gun. The plot changes from this revenge-fantasy to the New Yorker world of the publicity expert Eddie (Til Schweiger)…" Now I ask myself seriously: What is so disconcerting about the imagination that the victim imagines the death of the men that are raping her? Isn't it even understandable somehow? The visualization in the movie makes the fantasy visible for the viewers - and uncomfortable. "One Way" is consequently shown from the rape victim's point of view, which is definitely not a daily mean.In an other criticism it is said that the rape scenes are shown very drastically. So I watched them critically. My judgment: I have seen more drastically rape scenes in movies and on television before. But what is really hard to the spectator is - during the whole rape the camera is filming the victim's face. Vivid, oppressive and frightening.The pictures do not allow any evading and phrases like "…somehow she wanted that, too…" or "It's not as bad as it seems…" are absolutely wrong and out of place. The victim is injured with great physical and psychological pain.Is it a woman allowed to take revenge if she has been raped, humiliated and emotionally killed? If she can't trust her pretending best friend or in justice? In "One Way" two raped and humiliated women experience emotional justice in the end and an initial slime ball develops into a better man. This is more than reality can (unfortunatly) sometimes offer.Fill the movie theaters and watch it! It's worth it! Marte Cormann, www.kinoplausch.de