One of my favourite German movies ever! I wonder how Hollywood could come up with a nonsense like 'Bucket List' more then 10 years after this awesome piece of filmmaking! The storyline is very creative and leaves a lot of space for surprises, the acting is fresh and really makes you feel with the main characters. The movie promises comedy, action and drama...so be prepared. It doesn't reach my 10 points, missing a bit of professionalism sometimes but in the end this makes it just more likable! So, even if it's not available in English, make the effort and watch it with the subtitles. In the end it's always better to watch movies in original language.

Martin and Rudi, two terminally ill hospital roommates decide that they have nothing to lose and after a wild night steal a car from the hospital garage. The car belongs to two unwitting gangsters transporting load of cash. Chased by the police and the car owners, the couple is determined to make the most of their last days.It's not the plot, it's the fast pace and the blend of humor and tragedy that makes this movie special and brilliant. I don't understand why it wasn't released worldwide.I see there's an American remake (The Bucket List: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0825232/) scheduled for this year. While I am a fan of both Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, I don't think it will match "Knockin' on the Heaven's Door".

I do not agree at all with the enthusiastic comments listed before. Knockin' on heaven's door maybe conceived as the ultimate new German comedy (actor Til Schweiger participates as producer) - what came out is in my eyes a quite embarrassing product. The fulfilment of adolescent dreams of uninhibited consume (cars, girls, champagne - highly original) forms the base of the plot. Inserted are all types of clichés (from respected actor Moritz Bleibtreu as a dumb Arab mumbling in bad German, to the sentimental ending in the North-Sea-sunset). What really annoyed me is the dull kind of humor blank of every subtlety, which the movie celebrates from the beginning to the end. To say something positive, the camera word is fresh and at times inventive. As an example for a well-done and funny German comedy, see "Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich" from 1998. Or else, stick to Laurel and Hardy.

This is easily one of the best films that I have seen in a long time and certainly the best of its modern gangster genre. The plot is maybe a touch formulaic but that fits well as the whole film pokes fun of many of the clichees that Hollywood pictures like Pulp Fiction take a little too seriously. Actually, I have heard many people compare it to Pulp Fiction, but the only real similarity I found is in its frenetic style and odd sense of humor. As for humor, the subtitles are well done, so you don't lose much in the translation.