'In the Fade' throws up a few moral dilemmas, gets your heart racing and is part revenge thriller, part courtroom drama. Diane Kruger is very believable as the grieving woman with an axe to grind. The pace is perfect and the viewing felt like half of the actual running time.

There are some rather silly subplot errors, and some moments play out like a traditional american thriller, but on the whole, just when I thought the film may veer into the 'too ridiculous' territory, it always seemed to stop and pull me back in.

At it's heart it's an 'anti-hatred' movie with a very simple message but quite well done. It's nothing original and the third act is rather blunt. But the reality is that things will come to a blunt end if hatred is allowed to continue spreading.

Like a dildo low on batteries, _In the Fade_ is frustrating and dissatisfying in the end, despite Diane Kruger's skill and persistence.

This is an amazing movie.

[spoiler]At the end, they should have showed the inside of the caravan. It definitely needed some reaction shots.[/spoiler]

Underrated i would say..This movie is too realistic with great atmosphere and super acting perfomance from Kruger. 7.7/10 ending scene suprised me a lot i didn't see that coming.

As in my other review said, the movie was brilliant.

From the beginning Akin used stereotypes to show the family. Stereotypes that go through the whole film and at long last are a key importance for the story.

The three chapters ( I watched in German, so maybe the translation is wrong) were: Family, Justice, and the sea.
all three Katja didn't get. Her family was killed, she did not win the process but the murderers did, and finally she didn't get to have the release and happy end of the sea neither.

the camera perspectives on the court room and also at the end are a key importance for the story. the world turns around and the camera fades to the ground of the sea. Katja has her end on the ground. no reason to stay alive.

Also the Samurai Tattoo gets colour when she is right in the process. And finally we get to see, that not all suicide Bombers are the terrorists. They -may- be the victims trying to give people back what they deserve.

Akin managed to put all of these in a brilliant movie.

This movie was brilliant. Every aspect of it. As always Akin managed to get brilliant actors and actresses to play in a story, that unfortunately is real in many ways. Diane Kruger plays extraordinary, the camera perspectives and movements gave me Goosebumps, and the story is just sad, but brilliant.

definitely 10/10

I will add another Review but with spoilers.

I really enjoyed Diane Kruger during the whole film. I also enjoyed the tension between the two lawyers in the court scenes. Definitely worth seeing!

I quite enjoyed this. The pace was good. The story unique and the ending, while not surprising, seemed just about right for the events and the character. Diane Kruger was well cast. The subtitles were well done also, easy to follow and paced well.

One part story of grief; one part courtroom drama; one part revenge flick. This is slow, deliberately paced, and does what it does efficiently. Worth a watch.

Disappointingly shallow

Aus dem nicht [lit. trans. From Nothing] doesn't jump off the page as a typical Fatih Akin film - when former convicted drug dealer Nuri Sekerci (Numan Acar) and his son are killed in a bomb blast at his office, his wife Katja (Diane Kruger) has faith that the police and courts will find and punish those responsible. However, as Katja finds herself becoming more and more disillusioned with the systems which are supposed to be on her side, she comes to believe she must take things into her own hands. Read like that, this could be any number of bad Hollywood movies (F. Gary Gray's wonderfully risible Law Abiding Citizen (2009) springs to mind). However, when we include the fact that Nuri is Turkish, and that the police quickly come to suspect the bombing may have been connected to a Neo-Nazi group, it fits much more comfortably into his oeuvre. Unfortunately, it's not very good.