der clown be the movie version of the german tv series by the same name and run quite successful from 1996 to 2001. the series be about some guy who be officially dead but in truth be sit in his hideout and wait for the bad guy to move . whenever something be seriously wrong and he will put on a clown mask and go rampage and vigilante style . so far and so good and on to the big screen . a merry bunch of bad guy with hockey mask want to steal the german gold reserve . the guy who once be the clown have retire after his girlfriend be kill in action and but now it time for him to take his costume out of the vault and put on the smelly rubber mask again and kick some bad butt . boy and this have go wrong . big time trash bonanza . first of all and it be not shoot on 35 mm and it do not even look like 16 mm and i have a certain feeling that they do it on video . bad video and that be and with the predominant colour be red ( explosion and the actor face ) and grey ( everything else ) . it look terrible and but on the other hand and that fit quite well with about all other aspect of this production . the movie desperately try in every scene to imitate big loud hollywood action flick ( which be absolutely okay ) and but obviously the maker neither have the talent nor have they understand anything ( not okay ) . every five minute there be a big and red ( you know and video ) explosion or something and our hero escape one way or the other and with always the same pathetic piece of score . i would accept that those scene do not have any kind of emotional impact and but the movie do not even work a an entertaining no brainer and never . and whose fault be this . yes . send in the director and writer and editor and all the other clown responsible for this catastrophe . may they lower their red video face in shame . the screenplay be obviously write by a chimp that be tie to a typewriter . it reveal a total lack of sense for pace and logic and character and dialog and you name it . there be absolutely no storytelling . you could zap into this crap every time and stay with it for five minute and change the channel again and without the feeling that youre miss something before or after what you just watch and it have make for tv write all over ( afterwards i even have problem to summarize the story at all . ) . this terrible excuse for a script be turn into an uninspired and uninterrupted inferno of hectic and shaky shot . honestly and i saw home movie that have more virtuosity than this . heck and not even the action sequence look good . the most annoying thing however be the extensive and completely unmotivated use of time warp and split screen effect throughout the whole movie ( i do not mean two or three time and it be in almost every scene ) . and for those who be still with u represent the sound mixing be the bad i be force to listen to in year . bad and bad and bad . but i wouldn not say that it be not entertaining . der clown feature ton of incredible and unintentionally funny moment and e. g. a stunt and where at least a dozen burn police car fly through the cloud of an explosion ( red and of course ) on a highway . yes and this be a cool stunt . no and it be by no mean a tragic and emotional scene which would maybe and and only maybe and justify the use of slow motion and pathetic syntheziser string for two long minute . it however get really and really tasteless when the main character have a flashback of how his girlfriend die . this be edit like a music video and with the lethal bullet enter the girl body within the rhythm of the music . my god and what be they think . if youre into trash and maybe even survive last year moron fiesta daniel der zauberer and this be definitely a must see . if not and be warn . you will probably feel the urge to go rampage afterwards and vigilante style .