You know the most unfortunate thing about Die Welle (The Wave) is that the source material is so intense,and riveting. It's about a teacher who creates a dictatorship in his students while he is actually trying to teach them about the Nazi's. It get's out of control,and people started getting hurt. Now I actually haven't read the whole of the source material,but I have read a one act play dramatization which even in it's simplicity was actually quite intense in it's own way. It worked because you slowly figured out everything that was happening. It also brought in the reality of the characters that we connected to being attacked,and brutalized. What the story also had going for it was a really quite funny,and also very surprising ending that was a middle finger to any of the kids that took part in the assignment. The film has none of this. Now that's not to say that the film doesn't have good things in it. The acting for one thing is actually quite good. There's enough stuff in there to entice you, and no one does a particularly bad job in their roles. The teacher is quite compelling. This actually holds up the film, because there's actually not to much of a problem with the actors in the film. The screenplay that falls short. The film makes the big mistake in the screenplay by making The Wave a gang. They don't act like a terrifying uprising that is led by a powerful leader. This doesn't feel like a fascist government rising slowly in a school. This feels like a club that is getting more violent in a way that is boring,and uninteresting. There is nothing that seems wrong with the group. Everything in this film should be creepy,and it should all work like that, but the group just seems so innocent that it doesn't work. Now they aren't innocent they hurt some people,and graffiti there town up,but it feels childish. It feels shallow. I mean the end of the film is different then the book, and is not good at all taking away any of the hilarity that was there at the end. So yeah good actors in a bad movie. I give The Wave a 6 out of 10.
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