Die Wilden Kerle 4 (2007) User Reviews

Uh-oh, do you mean we have another love interest for Leon?...

[ihateveryone · 4/10 · 8 August 2021]

But Leon shows no interest in her. It's all in the head of Vanessa and she executes Leon without due process. While she BELIEVES that Leon has cheated on her, she flirts with Leon's best friend, Maxi. If she was an antagonist and she did that just for revenge, it's be a great storytelling but that's exactly the problem of the 4th movie . She's supposed to be a "protagonist". Just like she hesitated to go find Leon in the third movie, she wants to return HOME with Maxi, who's surely taken for granted. Like I said, she doesn't act like a protagonist at all, she gas-lights Leon just like in the past 2 movies...

Maybe the worst of the films

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 24 April 2015]

This is the fourth of five Wilde Kerle movies and in my opinion maybe also the last as the final film is really more of an epilogue. The reason why I wrote this one here is possibly the worst is because it is the one that features Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht the most. He is a definite contender for worst German actor right now and I am absolutely sure that he would not have a career without his famous dad. Jimi Blue is not much better, but Wilson Gonzales is cringeworthy in absolutely every scene he is in. They did better with having him as a very small supporting character in the first three films. Joachim Masannek is the writer and director again and the difference between this film and the other is that the wild kids face two different enemy football teams this time. That is probably also why this movie is much longer than films 1-3. Add to that a story of jealousy involving the Ochsenknecht boys and you have a runtime not too far away from two hours anymore.

Nobody other than Uwe Ochsenknecht is known in the cast anymore which is actually really bad looking at other German kids movies with stellar casts and performances. But what would you expect if the filmmaker behind this puts all his children into all these films. Favoritism of the worst kind. The costumes are pretty horrible too and the football action that was initially the core of these movies has become only a sub-plot by now. Also, it is funny how they said in the third film that they are too old for the whole wild boys thing and yet they made two more films afterward. Cash cow alert. Quality is irrelevant by now. It's only making as much money as possible with these sequels. The only positive thing you could say is that this movie is not worse than the previous one, but sadly the only reason is that they were all utter crap already as well. The music is bad (Bananafishbones have delivered extremely terrible songs for all 5 films), the football action is completely unrealistic rubbish and the whole motorbike riding is as pretentious as it gets. These five films are a definite contender for worst movie franchise of all times. Stay away.