Second viewing; first was on January 25, 1990.
An American executive working at a West Berlin branch of his company is forced to take the boss's daughter as a guest. She gets herself, and thus also her host, into trouble, and the executive must summon all his resourcefulness to minimize the damage, so as not to hamper his prospects for a promotion.
An exercise in fastness, which pleased me immensely at my first viewing, but now not so much, given perhaps my increased aversion to a number of vulgarities in its humor, and the whole contrivedness of the concept, which aims to keep the rhythm in constant excess, even with sacrifice of the quality of the contents. But there is a good percentage of the film that is really good, and the cast, particularly the lead, is up to the task at hand.
Rating: 66 (down from 82)
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