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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The setting of Kontroll is the Budapest subway system, one of the largest and oldest in the world, and a place that becomes an omniscient character in an ambitious film that jumbles dark comedy, slick action, and horror-movie conventions. The other main character is Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi), part of a team of disheveled ticket inspectors--controllers--who roam the grimy, fluorescent-lit city-under-the-city in a soul-destroying ritual. The job has become such a part of Bulcsú that he never leaves the underground. He has taken to sleeping on empty platforms and getting progressively more unkempt as he accumulates more bruises, bloody noses, and bitterness from his scraps with a variety of unseemly creatures of the night (and day). Among the post-punk, post-communist habitués of this subterranean metropolis are a cute girl in a teddy-bear suit, a rival gang of ticket inspectors who like to play a deadly game of chicken with express trains, and a hooded specter who may or may not be pushing people under subway wheels at crowded stops. First-time director Nimród Antal keenly juggles black comedy, character types, and genre styles, making the most of the weird angles and inherent dark creepiness of his chosen backdrop. Kontroll keeps pace as a hip, flashy, fast-moving set piece by any international measure. --Ted Fry
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Subway as the Nether World
Scary, funny, charming, exotic, quirky . . . and literally perfect in many ways.
Check it out at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373981/
Rating:  - A Definite Watch
When I read the cable description of the movie "A hooded figure pushes people in front of oncoming trains," I wasn't sure I'd be able to watch it. I thought it was a horror movie. I'm glad I took the time to see it. It's become one of my favorite movies, and one of the few foreign movies where the sub-titles not only don't bother you, you really don't even need them to know what's going on. It's extremely well acted, and you get such a strong sense of who the characters really are. If you just ... Read More
Rating: - Spectacular!
Amazing casting complemented by astounding photography & superb direction contribute to one of the finest films I've seen in at least ten years. The last ones to have this impact on me were Kusturica's *Underground* & *Black Cat White Cat*.
Recommended with a vengeance!
Rating: - Remember what you felt the first time you saw "Fight Club"?
I'm writing this over a year after i saw the DVD. I can't remember with detail the plot, or technical details, but i know i will never forget this movie.
In a way it's like fight club. The first time i saw it, it created intense internal feelings, that up until today i have issues classifying.
If you believe that movies ought to be able to move you, to make you feel something, than you need to watch this movie. It is a must see.
Rating: - Excellent movie
For me this is a no. 1 movie. It has speed and profundity. The story is actually about someone who went underground because of things in the past. He makes his way through subwaylife from an underdog position. He meets Alice's rabbit who finally takes him aboveground. A very hopeful, but not cheap, end.
Gerard Knol
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