Far Cry (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Far Cry |
| Original title | Far Cry |
| Country of production | Germany , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Boll |
| script |
Masaji Takei Michael Roesch Peter Scheerer |
| production |
Uwe Boll Dan Clarke Shawn Williamson Wolfgang Herold |
| music | Jessica de Rooij |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut | Karen Porter |
| occupation | |
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Far Cry is a German-Canadian action film by Uwe Boll based on the video game of the same name , which was released in 2004. The film adaptation with Til Schweiger in the role of Jack Carver was released in German cinemas on October 2, 2008 and opened on December 17, 2008 in the USA .
action
Before working as a boat operator on the west coast of the United States, Jack Carver was a soldier in an elite unit. Journalist Valerie Cardinal asks Carver to take her to an island that has been closed by the military, where her uncle Max works as a colonel and is involved in uncovering dangerous secret experiments to create invincible, genetically modified super-soldiers. Since Max is an old friend of the initially unwilling carver, he finally supports Valerie.
Arrived on the island, the security commander Tchernov, a loyal subordinate Dr. Warrior, arrives Valerie and orders the destruction of Carver's boat. He barely escapes the explosion. Carver manages to free Valerie; however, he recognizes what is going on on the island. While trying to find Max and flee the island, Carver and Valerie separate and are captured independently. Dr. Krieger wants Carver to be killed by Max, who has already been converted into a fighting machine, but Carver can stop him with good persuasion. By trying to stop Max with firearms and other mutants, all other super soldiers are released from their high-security cells and henceforth try to kill everyone on the island.
Numerous soldiers die in the showdown following the skeptical Sergeant Ryder, who is murdered by Tchernov. Even the mercenaries in their command have to lose their lives, mostly as victims of Jack Carver or the super soldiers. Eventually Max saves Carver and Valerie one more time and kills Tchernov so that Carver and Valerie can escape from the island. They let the helpless Dr. Warrior returns alone with his bloodthirsty fighting machines.
production
Boll financed Far Cry by selling stakes in the fund companies Achte and Neunte Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG , which were offered by Bolls BOLU Filmproduktions- und Verleih GmbH . Far Cry was the last of the Bolls films to be financed by one of the controversial media funds of its kind. Participations could only be subscribed until November 10, 2005, as a change in the law came into effect retrospectively from November 11, closing the tax loophole on which Bolls film financing had been based since 1999.
Far Cry was filming from June to August 2007 in Vancouver , Canada. Boll called Far Cry " Die Hard on an island". With a budget of 34 million euros, the box office results in Germany only amounted to around 566,000 euros.
Trivia
Human killing machines created in a secret military project were also the subject of the Roland Emmerich film Universal Soldier (1992). Ralf Moeller played one of his first film roles in this commercially successful film : as in Far Cry , he embodied a fighting machine produced in a Universal Soldier program.
Reviews
The film magazine Cinema wrote that "one cannot expect any intellectual heights from games films as a rule." Til Schweiger cuts a fine figure as a grim hero, while “flat gags and some hard-to-bear secondary characters” clouded the riot fun. In conclusion, it is said that the film is “not a milestone in the genre, but thoroughly honest, entertaining action entertainment for in between”.
The Hamburger Morgenpost ruled on October 2nd, 2008, like other Boll works, "This one too 'shines' with an absurd story, stupid dialogues and lack of timing in the staging." Occasionally, it is noticeable that "the director does not take everything very seriously". With some of the "mostly flat gags" it is unclear whether Boll would have intended them. Katharina Stumm judges even more negatively on critic.de :
“The narrative structures of a video game can often be banal, Uwe Boll and his scriptwriters leave it at that. [...] Far Cry is also ruthlessly laden with clichés : Dr. Kriegers right hand [...] is a military amazon of Russian origin, Krieger himself, of course, German. He listens to Wagner and paints, his total work of art is the animal zombie fighting machines that his client rejects because of their lack of brains for the war effort. In addition, there is a woodcut-like character drawing, fatal actor performances, flat dialogues [...]. "
At dreadcentral.com, they wish Boll had at least tried to make a simple action movie that would have been flat and uninspired. The really annoying thing about Far Cry , however, is the embarrassingly idiotic attempts to be funny. Overall, Far Cry received bad reviews with an average rating of 2/10 on film releases, according to press reviews.
Web links
- Far Cry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Far Cry in the online movie database
- Far Cry at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions German soundtrack - English soundtrack from Far Cry at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Far Cry . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 923 K).
- ↑ Budget and box office results. Far Cry (2008) . From: IMDb.de , accessed on April 22, 2009.
- ^ Film review. Cinema.de
- ↑ Far Cry Til Schweiger in a video game adaptation. In: mopo.de. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Katharina Stumm: Far Cry . critic.de, September 30, 2008.
- ↑ “ If Boll had just aimed to make a straightforward action movie it still would have been predominantly flat and most definitely uninspired, but what really soured me on Far Cry are the shamefully asinine attempts at humor. " Far Cry (2009) . On: dreadcentral.com , March 13, 2009.
- ↑ Far Cry press review on filmstarts.de; Retrieved April 22, 2009.