The problem with this film is that you feel like you've seen everything before and you probably have. A young woman is held captive by a man. It is essentially the same plot as William Wyler's brilliant British 1966 thriller "The Collector", and that film was much better.
The young Australian photographer Tessa Palmer is in Berlin to take pictures of the GDR architecture. She meets English teacher Andi, who takes her to one of Berlin's allotment gardens. Andi then brings Tessa home to his apartment and they sleep together. When Andi is teaching at school the following day, Tessa discovers that the door is locked. When he returns home, she tells him about it and he gives her the keys. The problem is that they don't fit. He has also removed the SIM card from her cell phone.
Andi tells his father, a professor, that he has got a girlfriend named Tessa. The father asks what happened to his former girlfriend, Natalie, whereupon the son replies that she has moved to Canada. This is the film's unanswered question. Did he kill her? And what happened to the dog Lotte, whom he claimed had run away?
A potential helper is brutally beaten to death by Andi. A similar plot device is used in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", in which the maid is beaten to death by the title character - and in lots of horror films and thrillers.
I think Max Riemelt is somewhat uncharismatic as the mentally ill teacher Andi. I liked Terence Stamp better.
So to me this film was a re-cycling of old stuff. It did not present an improvement to the previous films with similar plots.
The young Australian photographer Tessa Palmer is in Berlin to take pictures of the GDR architecture. She meets English teacher Andi, who takes her to one of Berlin's allotment gardens. Andi then brings Tessa home to his apartment and they sleep together. When Andi is teaching at school the following day, Tessa discovers that the door is locked. When he returns home, she tells him about it and he gives her the keys. The problem is that they don't fit. He has also removed the SIM card from her cell phone.
Andi tells his father, a professor, that he has got a girlfriend named Tessa. The father asks what happened to his former girlfriend, Natalie, whereupon the son replies that she has moved to Canada. This is the film's unanswered question. Did he kill her? And what happened to the dog Lotte, whom he claimed had run away?
A potential helper is brutally beaten to death by Andi. A similar plot device is used in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", in which the maid is beaten to death by the title character - and in lots of horror films and thrillers.
I think Max Riemelt is somewhat uncharismatic as the mentally ill teacher Andi. I liked Terence Stamp better.
So to me this film was a re-cycling of old stuff. It did not present an improvement to the previous films with similar plots.