Meteor Man

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Movie
German title Meteor Man
Original title The Meteor Man
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Townsend
script Robert Townsend
production Robert Townsend
Loretha C. Jones
music Cliff Eidelman
camera John A. Alonzo
cut Adam Bernardi
Richard Candib
Robaire W. Estel
Andrew London
Pam Wise
occupation

Meteor Man is an American action comedy from 1993. The author , director and lead actor of the film is Robert Townsend . He plays a good-natured teacher who for superheroes will as his quarters in Washington by a street gang terrorized. Although the film is set in Washington, most of it was shot in Baltimore .

action

Jefferson Reed is a good-natured schoolteacher in Washington. His neighborhood is terrorized by a street gang, the Golden Lords . One night he tries to save a young woman from the gang, which ends up in having to flee the gang himself. He can escape by hiding in a dumpster. As he climbs out of the container, he is hit by a glowing green meteor. His spine was broken and he was seriously burned. A tramp takes a small fragment of the meteor. Reed wakes up in the hospital several days later, but when his bandages are removed, all of his injuries are miraculously healed.

Jeff quickly realizes that the meteorite also endowed him with extraordinary abilities. He can fly and has X-ray vision and superhuman strength. When he confides this to his parents, the two convince him that he has to use his strength to help the people in the neighborhood. His mother tailors a costume for him and as Meteor Man he takes on the Golden Lords and their leader Simon Caine. He closes a crack laboratory , prevents a robbery and unites the Bloods and Crips with the police.

The Golden Lords eventually learn the Meteor Man's true identity and find that his powers are weakening. After another attack by the Golden Lords on the neighborhood, the situation escalates. When the people of the neighborhood plan a deal with the Golden Lords , Jeff steps in and explains to the people that they must fight for their beliefs. Then Jeff fights Simon without his superpowers and is beaten up. Simon aims a pistol at Jeff to be shot when Jeff's neighbor throws a record at Simon, knocking the pistol out of his hand. Now the people strike back and the tramp who initially pocketed the small piece of the meteorite is now using it to disarm the Golden Lords . The tramp accidentally drops the fragment, which Simon and Jeff notice at the same time. Both get hold of a small piece and thereby gain superpowers. Thereupon a fight ensues, which the Meteor Man wins.

In the end, Meteor Man has to deal with drug lord Mr. Byers. But this is switched off by the Bloods and Crips , who come to the aid of the Meteor Man . Byers is arrested by the police.

criticism

“Action comedy that plays with the set pieces of thriller and science fiction. The deliberately unrealistic dramaturgy wants to make social problems visible, but their causes are drowned in the gossip. "

- Lexicon of international film

Soundtrack

  1. "Can't Let Her Get Away" - Michael Jackson
  2. "It's for You" - Shanice
  3. "Don't Waste My Time" - Lisa Taylor
  4. "You Turn Me On" - Hi-Five
  5. "Who Can" - Ahmad
  6. "Your Future Is Our Future" - Daryl Coley & Frank McComb
  7. "I Say a Prayer" - Howard Hewett
  8. "Is It Just Too Much" - Keith Washington
  9. "Somebody Cares for You" - Frank McComb
  10. "Good Love" - Elaine Stepter
  11. "Ain't Nobody Bad (Like Meteor Man)" - Big Hat Ray Ray

background

After its theatrical release on August 6, 1993, the film was only able to rake in a little more than 8 million at the US box office with an estimated budget of 30 million US dollars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meteor Man in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed April 8, 2012
  2. ↑ David J. Fox: Weekend Box Office: 'Fugitive' Makes Off With $ 23.8 million , The Los Angeles Times . August 10, 1993. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Meteor Man (1993) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 8, 2012