Kiss of Death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kiss of Death |
| Original title | Kiss of Death |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Barbet Schroeder |
| script | Richard Price |
| production |
Susan Hoffman Barbet Schroeder |
| music | Trevor Jones |
| camera | Luciano Tovoli |
| cut | Lee Percy |
| occupation | |
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Kiss of Death is an American thriller by Barbet Schroeder from 1995. It is a remake of the 1947 thriller The Kiss of Death .
action
The former criminal Jimmy Kilmartin gets a visit from his cousin Ronnie one night, who pleads with him to drive a truck with stolen cars because he lacks a driver and he fears the consequences of the gang leader Little Junior. Jimmy finally agrees. However, the police provide the troops and the police officer Calvin Hart is shot. Jimmy is arrested and sentenced to prison.
Jimmy initially refuses to cooperate with the authorities, although they could speed up his release. He only gives his consent after the accidental death of his wife Bev. He quickly found out that the accident could only have happened because his cousin first made his wife drunk and then let her sleep with him overnight. When she realized what had happened to her early in the morning, she wanted to drive home while still drunk and died in a collision with a truck. So Jimmy provided names, but deliberately left out the name Ronnie so that the gangsters had to assume that Ronnie was their traitor. Ronnie is beaten to death by Little Junior Brown.
After three years Jimmy comes out and is smuggled into the gang around gang boss Little Junior Brown on behalf of the police. He works with Detective Calvin Hart. Brown's best "customer", the car dealer Omar, who is actually an FBI agent, is shot by him in Jimmy's presence. However, Jimmy secretly carried a voice recorder and had everything recorded.
At first Brown succeeds in arresting him, but Brown is released shortly afterwards due to procedural errors. He learns that Jimmy is cooperating with the police and has his little daughter threatened. Jimmy is shocked by this as well as by Brown's release, finds him in his table dance bar and confronts him.
There is a wild brawl between the two and the arriving Calvin Hart manages to arrest Brown again. However, the public prosecutor Frank Zioli, who is keen on his promotion to federal judge, continues to insist that he should not be charged with murder and has also made the treacherous tape with the murder record disappear. Jimmy, who had previously recorded a conversation with Zioli, in which the latter stated that he was only interested in becoming a judge, is now blackmailing him with this voice recording and a voice recording that he made during the fight with Brown, where the Murder was brought up again. The end of the film, however, leaves open how Zioli deals with the situation that is hopeless for him.
Reviews
- Roger Ebert criticized the script and portrayal of David Caruso in the Chicago Sun-Times .
- The editors of www.prisma-online.de praised the color dramaturgy and the presence of Nicolas Cage.
This and that
- The thriller was filmed in New York City , New Jersey and Sing Sing .
- The film grossed $ 14.9 million at the US box office.
- David Caruso was nominated for the Golden Raspberry for Worst New Actor (along with his role in Jade ).
Web links
- Kiss of Death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kiss of Death on www.prisma-online.de
- Kiss of Death at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 VOX - FSK 16 by Kiss of Death at Schnittberichte.com