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0.5/4
SIngli6 - wrote on 03/24/2017
Whether it's the poor aging of Georg Büchner's original play, or Klaus Kinski's impenetrable and frankly hilarious performance, or even the fact the opening credits of this movie featured sped up footage of Kinski tackling a military fitness regimen, but Woyzeck was a tremendously isolating film that failed to compensate for that isolation with anything particularly intelligent or thought-provoking to say. Werner Herzog's trademark slow pacing can be wonderfully atmospheric with the right script, but here it just makes 80 minutes spent in a very unpleasant world stretch to eternity. Avoid.
Rating of
4/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 06/15/2011
Klaus Kinski is entrancing as the violent and manic army officer Woyzeck. The severity of the revenge plot is raised to greatness by Kinski's full-bodied performance. The film would not have been as great with another actor at the helm.
