Last Minute Kasbah

If you can't sleep at night, you think to yourself that you'll appreciate a German nickel-and-dime thriller playing on TV around midnight. The beginning is about a mysterious hotel where people are dying suspiciously, and that seems like a solid old-world homage to the horror genre. But no sooner does the main character take to the hot Moroccan streets on his own as a detective than one "WTF?!" moment after another starts jumping out at you from the screen, with the characters acting like complete idiots who have had their logic and common sense beaten out of them. And that’s not even mentioning their opponents. And the ending with the speech and the interests of a classic Bond villain... ouch! (2009-08-13)