Rammstein: Paris (2017 Video) User Reviews

Outstanding band but terrible cinematography terrible

[Lawzy · 8/10 · 14 June 2020]

I love Rammstein they are my favourite bands and I love this concert too but the editing and camera work during the concert footage really is poor on this film. The fades between shots and the laying of shots makes the concert look like something out of the 90s. Cinematography aside though the music and song selection is outstanding.

Excellent concert movie

[EskeRahn · 9/10 · 23 March 2017]

One of the best concert-films I've ever seen. I would have expected it to be really hard to transfer the energy and intensity from this band to the screen. But Jonas Åkerlund does an excellent job! The multiple cameras and fast cuts, works really well. And add on top of that some digital wizardry, and a modest use of digital gimmicks.

Of course there is no way of transferring the feeling of heat from all their pyrotechnic stuff, that is a large part of the scene show, but he has given us other things instead.

Do yourself a favour and do not walk out during the end titles.

Great Show!

[robinrindel · 10/10 · 9 May 2022]

The video editing ist a little bit annoying (rapid cuts, unnecessary special effects etc.), for this part I would give 5/10. But Rammstein pulled off one hell of show, unbelievable! Haven't seen anything like that before. I wouldn't call myself a Rammstein Fan, but the music and and the show is just really good entertainment and you right away want to buy a ticket, drink a few beers and throw yourself in the audience as well. I would balance the 15/10 for Rammsteins performance on an average of 10/10. Just watch it and enjoy!

Visual feast!

[valediggler · 10/10 · 20 June 2021]

Many people complain here about the editing but i loved it! Live concerts are usually boring to watch with nothing much going on, the band playing and the audience cheering. However, this felt like a long music video which was fun to watch! It was a visual feast which I throughly enjoyed and it is probably one of the best live concerts i have ever seen!

Supreme

[gfassbach-10916 · 10/10 · 2 August 2018]

Many say that the Band's Last Waltz video by Martin Scorsese was one of the best recorded concerts of all time. Rammstein: Paris, with editing by Jonas Akerlund, has that beat by a country mile. It even beats David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour, and that is saying something. WAKE UP PEOPLE! Conception, costumes, set list, stagecraft and finally, the final editing by JA, is pure genius! I don't know how Rammstein can top this.

Entertainmaint on the highest level

[laza74 · 10/10 · 13 July 2022]

Just watch the 5 min something intro the band entering the stage.

THIS is entertainment on a new level.

Unbelievable show, a-rythmic cuts and slow/stop scenes by a master.

Nneccessary to write about sound, music and band - love it or leave it!

(was aired by ARTE)

Feast for the Eyes & Ears!

[jon7214-262-31892 · 10/10 · 5 April 2022]

This is amazing and it's great that it can be watched so easily on certain streaming platforms. All I know is it looks great, sounds great, especially in 4K, and is incredibly well directed with all you'd expect from a Rammstein concert.

Only thing missing is being there in person, as I've only been to one of their shows and almost got my eyebrows singed off, lol.

Entertaining but not thanks to the visuals

[genji-hth-106-891191 · 6/10 · 30 March 2017]

Right off the bat: I had a fun time watching this in a cinema filled with Rammstein fans. The song selection and the stage-show was all top notch really. From a filmmaking standpoint on the other hand there were many things that bugged me. Let's start with the camera-work. There is a wide range of coverage and a great selection of images. What I would've liked to see was the use of high shutter speeds to match the energy of the audio - but that is probably more of a personal preference. There also is some action-camera footage which for the most part is highly stylized. In my opinion this is the only way to include footage like this because let's face it the qualities absolutely sub par especially in such a difficult lighting situation. But unfortunately some non-stylized action-camera footage made it into the film which I always found to be really off-putting. Like suddenly switching to a fan-made YouTube video...Also there was some slow-motion coverage which was a welcome addition. In conclusion the camera-work was well executed wit some stylistic choices I found unfitting. The part that bothered me the most was the editing. All in all there were 3 editors working on the film and it seemed to me that there were some songs were they matched the dynamic of the audio fairly well with the visuals. But for the most part unfortunately it was just a chaotic mess with seemingly no motivation. Especially when it comes to music- & concert-videos an edit can do so much good but can also be so disastrous. I am sad to say that in this case it was mostly the latter. Every song was introduced with a unique typography of its title. Those were always hit and miss in my opinion. Some worked pretty well and seemed very thought through. But there were many others that seemed just amateurish. Whether it was the font choice or the animation or the pacing, sometimes all three! I am not usually a very typography fixated guy but here I could not help it. Another creative decision I just cannot wrap my head around is the use of cgi. And I am not talking about grading or light tweaking but actual 3D effects. There was this one scene where we get a close-up of Till's face and the gave him - and I am dead serious here - snake eyes and a snake tongue. And it doesn't even look sophisticated! It is so obviously computer generated and it did not tie into anything. Another scene was that during a keyboard solo they added lightning strikes to the hands of the keyboard player. Why?! Just why? The images were strong enough to stand on their own. These effects did not make them better, they ruined them! I am not sure about the sound editing. It could have very well been the cinema but it seemed to me that the music was entirely a stereo-mixdown. Which is okay for home entertainment but I can't help but feel like this is a wasted opportunity to give the sound more impact.

Another thing that amazed me were the credits. Never in my life have I seen credit roll going so fast! Which was why it wasn't too bothersome to sit there and wait for the obligatory after-credit-scene which is so popular nowadays.

Great music, but visually chaotic

[ada4 · 6/10 · 23 March 2017]

Excellent concert show. It is possibly the best live performance of Rammstein I've ever seen. But on the screen, it doesn't work for me.

Sound is great. With my eyes closed, I could enjoy supreme atmosphere at the concert. Especially drums are on such volume level that you can feel it by whole body, but it is still a part of other music and together all works. Excellent job!

Camera is beautiful. Close shots, far shots, angles, artistic lighting, all this work fine, saturated contrast and brightness moved to black tones on screen is amazing.

Flake's performance on stage is amazing. Again.

But... I had a problem to get into the show. Reason is simple: editing is furious. What can work on a single song as an emphasize of impression in the studio, does not work in a full-length live show. When I watch the concert, I am trying to focus on details, what is happening on stage. Especially Rammstein concert show usually has a stunning choreography and all that fireworks and other stuff excellently supplement the show. But, if editing to completely different shot is present almost after each word from lyrics (really!!) or almost after all rhythm beat, it is unable to see, what is happening on the stage. You cannot even focus on contributions of single musicians. Simply sad, I couldn't enjoy that. And the stage happening is the main subject of Rammstein show.

I would like to see this concert show directed in more standard way (similar to Rammstein in Amerika or Live aus Berlin).

And I wouldn't wonder if anybody had an epileptic seizure during screening.

Impossible to watch!

[cordovacristian-14186 · 1/10 · 20 May 2017]

The edit on this concert is so bad, the frames change so fast it will give you a head ache. The music is great, but the editing doesn't not fell like a live concert but like a music video. They should re make it without Jonas and with his edit. I love Rammstein, and the live concerts before where so good, but for this I am so disappointed

Great Show but maniac editing ruined it

[garedmacswiney · 6/10 · 29 April 2017]

Was an amazing show, amazing band, amazing performance, many songs BUT the film is cut WAY TOO fast. The manic editing is absolutely exhausting to watch and honestly unenjoyable. The editing is just awful! Far too many cuts - its actually uncomfortable to watch. It should carry a warning for epilepsy sufferers. After watching the movie at cinema I was wondering how Rammstein could give this a go, since they have kind of a optical trademark which the director straight p1ss3d on. Not just the very fast cuts and the annoying digital effects, which don't fit to Rammstein in any way, but also the different typo to show the song names. The show was amazing as always, such a shame that Jonas Åkerlund ruined it. The audio is great in my opinion.

Great live act, but dumbed down

[kjell-23 · 6/10 · 21 May 2017]

Rammstein is perhaps one of the greatest rock acts to ever hit a stage. Their performance is a hard hitting, high energy audiovisual punch to your senses. I expected Paris to capture some of this magic, however in my opinion it does not. Paris sounds great and captures the massive sound of Rammstein, but when it comes to the visuals it is a huge disappointment.

The editing feels unprofessional. There are some great shots of the band and the stage, but the rapid clips makes it impossible to truly enjoy any of them. The fill ins with surveillance style black high contrast footage is just annoying and makes it feel..stupid. The terrible CGI shots with lizard eyes and tongue etc is just embarrassing and the visual style for the titles of each songs feels like something made for a really, really low-cost TV production for kids.

If I was to judge this for the visuals, I'd give it 3 out of 10. However the Rammstein sounds great and pulls of a great show. So it's a 6 out of 10.

I'd really would like to see a non-retarded, Non-epileptic seizure edit of this. When it comes to showing a good live performance I prefer the more "standard" approach to it, where the point is to capture and showcase the show. Not dumb it down.

So sad

[diego10-arg · 5/10 · 20 June 2017]

Not much to add to other reviewers words. It's so sad the Director totally ruined it. I hope for another edition with one single steady camera focusing the whole stage at all the times. That would be 10/10.

Also the noises and digital editing adding those tongues and crap does not add anything to the band. We know RAMMSTEIN, and we love it the way they are, no thoses crappy video editions.

Epilepsy warning!

[SoleKeeper · 6/10 · 24 May 2017]

Warning ...you might as well be staring at a strobe light. WTF was the video editor thinking? I have never seen so many cuts and weird edits anywhere. The audio is excellent as expected but the constant cuts will give anyone a headache. The video quality is great, buy as stated, so hard to focus on something that is always changing. The cameraman is obviously in love with Till and Richard because that is pretty much all they show.

disappoint

[melanialuloo · 1/10 · 5 June 2017]

The edit on this concert is so bad, the frames change so fast it will give you a head ache. The music is great, but the editing doesn't not fell like a live concert but like a music video. They should re make it without Jonas and with his edit. I love Rammstein, and the live concerts before where so good, but for this I am so disappointed

i don't like really dirty film

WTF was the video editor thinking ?

[zxr-12292 · 1/10 · 31 March 2018]

Rammstein is a big live band and destroy the whole concert with this epileptic cutting. its so sad !!!!

Rammstein is great, Jonas sucks

[stellansson · 1/10 · 19 October 2020]

Why why why

I hope they didn't pay mr. Åkerlund too much for screwing up a great live performance.

I mean, Rammstein are great and theatrical to start with, why use cheap cgi and excessive cutting?

Watch other Rammstein concerts live instead.

Are you serious about the black and white video raster effect? Unwatchable

[djremotion · 1/10 · 23 January 2020]

Director or editor of this "film" needs to be boiled in diesel, alive until killed. Nothing makes me more sad than great subject ruined by horrible tastelessness from the people who made this. First 10 minutes are totally unneeded black and white halftone pattern raster effect. It is almost like they found first time Photoshop from 1994, and tried one effect and stuck with it. Absolutely hit, sorry but I tried to watch this because of the Rammstein and what they have to give, not for the directors bad taste.

Great band and concert but the edit is a mess

[jacktindall-00821 · 5/10 · 25 October 2017]

I would give this 10 for the bands performance and sound but the edit is atrocious. Far too many quick cuts and where the hell's the crowds faces? Just mainly helicopter type shots looking straight down on the crowd. Without the shots of crowd interaction with the band, it doesn't feel like a live gig, just a music video with far too many cuts. You might see a great scene but as you try to absorb it, another 3 quick cuts have gone by in 3 seconds. Then back to the same shot you were trying to absorb but then it changes again into another 5 shots in 2 seconds, then some vampire teeth on someone but you can't tell who cos the shots changed again. Impossible to get into. Such a shame because its a fkn fantastic concert and funny as hell

hurts

[tlicedrto · 1/10 · 12 June 2017]

The edit on this concert is so bad, the frames change so fast it will give you a head ache. They should re make it without Jonas and with his edit. I love Rammstein, and the live concerts before where so good, but for this I am so disappointed Starts out with her comparing singing to going to war. Then there is the lip sinking. Let's make fun of the church and put strippers in nun outfits. Ho-hum. A few guys kissing guys. A few guys grinding each other. Political misstatements. And some boobies and the same old music on replay. SO BORING

Good, but dodgy editing

[pwccabj · 5/10 · 19 April 2022]

The show itself is excellent. Rammstein always deliver in that respect. The problem with this release, however is Jonas's editing. Lots of fast shots, overlays, and slo-mo that really just distracts heavily from the live experience... by watching it it feels like I may get a fit of epilepsy. I had this dame disease with Jonas's work with Madonna on her live concert recordings... the eyes cannot keep up with the edits. I watched it once, and doubt I will watch it again. Jonas makes great music videos (for the most part), but I hate his live work.

Seizure

[lenamariejohansen · 2/10 · 9 February 2022]

Rammstein is known for their exceptional stage show. This movie do not give them the credit they deserve.

The creator of the film has taken to much artistic freedom. And you get a seizure watching it. Dobbel layers sliding like it was made in windows movie maker. Overlays that makes it look like the start of a movie in the 1920, and then suddenly groggy like the 1980. Some scenes are good, but the frames are changing to quickly, you almost get dizzy.

bad concert

[gbyhyggygyy · 1/10 · 23 June 2017]

This was probably the worst time waster I Have ever seen in my life - Good luck to any that brave watching this one, I thought I would give this movie a shot and give amy a shot but nethertheless I was disappointed. Humor isn't what it used to be

Good luck!

New to Rammstein.

[duncancmccann · 24 June 2020]

A lot of people seem to be annoyed about the fast 'MTV' editing. I do understand what they are saying, but I just loved it! from beginning to end, I felt it brought a sense of chaos which was welcome - though I cannot deny I am probably too old to suddenly get into this stuff, I don't look to a film of this concert to be static and subtle. I doubt I'll ever be able to afford to see them live, but (despite the post-production effects), this movie just makes me want to be, maybe not in the middle , but in the suburbs of the energy and madness of the crowd. One thing I didn't like - the titles of the songs coming up. I didn't need that interruption to continuity. Still loved it.

An East German band in Paris

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 22 May 2017]

"Rammstein: Paris" is as the title already says slightly over 2 hours of concert video footage from a performance back that Till Lindemann and the gang gave back in Paris five years ago already. The director here is Jonas Åkerlund from Sweden who is perhaps the most known music (video) director right now and for a long time if you don't count Paul Thomas Anderson, who is a bit of back to his roots these days. Åkerlund also worked with Pussy Riot, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Paul McCartney and many many other big names, so you also see that he basically works with many artists, no matter which genre and age. Here we have a really recent release by him and like I already said the title gives away band and location, so not too much to add there. I personally would not call myself a fan of Rammstein, even if they have some songs I kinda like ("Amerika", "Mein Teil", "Engel" and most of all "Keine Lust"). But many many songs here did not do to much for me, which is why I believe it dragged for me on quite a few occasions. If you think differently about them, maybe even consider them one of your favorites, you will certainly enjoy the music and also the stage show that is as spectacular as always with Rammstein. So my low rating for this event here is entirely from a subjective position. If you like them more than I do, then feel free to check it out.