I don't think the film needs to be very different in order to work. It just needs that extra hour of screentime that the cast deserved.

I would have preferred Garona getting Lothar out of his funk with some method other than pity-sex in the Lions' Pride Inn.

I think Fimmel did the role well for the script that was written, but I didn't buy him having a fully-grown son, and that contributed to Callan's somewhat weak connectivity in the film. If you nix the GaronaXLothar romance from the script, you can cast Lothar as a bit older, and that helps sell Callan a bit better.

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