the role of the paranoid mystic and abuse soldier wozzeck be a perfect character for klaus kinski . herzog be right not to interfere too much with this portrayal ( and kinski be in almost every shot ) by simply set up the camera and stand back . kinski be typically intense and but he manage to glaze this with a perpetual preoccupation with something else and something a if off camera . the problem be and there nothing off camera . the script be very close from buchner play but nothing in herzog production reflect it . there be none of the expressionism suggest by the dvd cover or advertising poster . the general look of the production be period realist and close frame . the action jump and unmoderated and from one scene to the next and often lose a sense of dramatic causality . herzog strict adherence to the text eschew the opportunity afford by film and leave me feel rather bereft . the crisp and document realism of this film have only one sequence modulate with music the one addition that could really transform it . clearly and a production of berg opera on the same material have music build into it ( and what music . ) and and notably and music inbetween the scene and provide the breadth and rumination that herzog have stubbornly refuse . it a satisfactory reproduction of buchner text but and kinski aside and not much more than that . 4/10 .