Okay, so I finally watched 'Killing Cars' after seeing it mentioned in some obscure film forum. Let me tell you, this is NOT your typical car movie.

First off, Jürgen Prochnow is just... wow. The man could read a phone book and make it intense. Here he plays this self-absorbed engineer type, and somehow makes you care about him even when he's being terrible. That's talent.

The whole movie feels like someone took every 80s cliché - neon lights, industrial lofts, questionable fashion choices - and turned them up to maximum volume. There's a scene where Prochnow puts on sunglasses AT NIGHT to drive his ugly prototype car and I actually cheered.

What surprised me most was how the movie kind of... works? Like halfway through I realized I was actually invested in whether they'd finish their stupid car project. The plot makes zero sense if you think about it too hard, but Prochnow's performance glues everything together.

Fair warning: this isn't high art. The lighting is terrible, some scenes look like they were shot with a potato, and there's a random spy subplot that goes nowhere. But if you enjoy watching a great actor elevate mediocre material (and don't mind some glorious 80s cheese), it's weirdly compelling.

Final verdict: 3/5 stars for normal people, 4/5 if you're already a Prochnow fanatic (and yes, there is indeed a nude scene). Not quite 'Das Boot', but way more fun than it has any right to be.