Kontroll (2003)
Directed by Nimród Antal
A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks.
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The film, a surprisingly violent and kinetic slapstick comedy reminiscent of Clive Barker's "Midnight Meat Train," begins with one character aping Harpo Marx's blowtorch lighter bit from Duck Soup and ends with scenes that recall Vincent Ward's visionary The Navigator.
But in its edgy, knowing depiction of urban malaise and subversive desires, it recalls the permanent midnight of "Taxi Driver."
A cross between Chris Noth and Clancy Brown's The Kurgan from Highlander , Bulcsú (Sándor Csányi) is the Oedipal anti-hero at the heart of Hungarian director Nimród Antal's drop-dead brilliant Kontroll.
With its fluid, articulate camera work, "Kontroll" often resembles the similarly lean-and-mean 1998 thriller "Run Lola Run."
Think Run Lola Run, which wasn't that long ago.