Ricochet - The Impact
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ricochet - The Impact |
| Original title | Ricochet |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 102 (abridged 96) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (shortened 16) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Russell Mulcahy |
| script |
Steven E. de Souza Fred Dekker (story) |
| production |
Barry Josephson Michael Levy Joel Silver |
| music | Alan Silvestri |
| camera | Peter Levy |
| cut | Peter Honess |
| occupation | |
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Ricochet - The Impact (Original Title: Ricochet ) is an American action film from 1991 . Directed by Russell Mulcahy , the screenplay was written by Steven E. de Souza . Denzel Washington played the leading role .
action
Nick Styles is a Los Angeles cop in 1984 , studying law on the side. One day, Styles and his partner Larry Doyle arrest the drug dealer and killer Earl Talbott Blake, who takes a hostage but is able to be disarmed by Styles. The action is randomly recorded on video and later shown on television. Styles is now considered a hero, he and Doyle are promoted. Styles later finished his studies and became a prosecutor.
Blake escapes from prison in 1991. He kills his accomplice and burns his corpse to fake his own death. Blake kills Alderman Farris, a friend of Styles', and makes this murder look like suicide. He also leaves a fake suicide note accusing Styles of child abuse and theft or misappropriation of public funds. Styles is kidnapped by Blake and given heroin and cocaine . A prostitute hired by Blake fakes sex with the cop, which Blake is filming.
The authorities and his wife don't believe Styles' explanations, only Doyle stands by his partner. After Blake threatens Styles' children and causes them to panic, Styles is suspended from duty. Blake shoots Doyle, who dies in Styles' arms, then throws the murder weapon to Styles. Styles is accused of murder. He asks an old friend, the drug dealer Odessa, for help. Nick's family is hidden in the Odessa house. Meanwhile, Odessa lets Blake know that Styles is proposing a meeting near the Watts Towers . There it comes to a fight, during which Blake's face is captured by television cameras, thus proving that Blake is not dead. Odessa and its people are preparing to energize the towers. Blake falls from one of the towers during the fight and is impaled on a steel spike.
In the end, Styles is reunited with his family waiting under the towers. Styles makes an appointment with Odessa that they want to meet to play basketball as they did in their youth. He tells the press, which treated him unfairly during his crisis, to lick his ass .
Reviews
Rita Kempley described the film in the Washington Post on October 5, 1991 as a "bloody relative" of the Joel Silver-produced films Just 48 Hours and Two Steel-Hard Professionals . Nothing is extraordinary - apart from the fact that it is not the Afro-American Nick Styles who dies to be avenged by his white partner, but the other way around.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "an occasionally exaggerated harsh thriller, but in the action scenes it is excitingly staged, the good leading actor of which makes the inconsistencies of the script partially forgotten."
background
- Ricochet, French for impact / rebound, is a ballistics term . This is also used in English to denote a (sometimes intentional) ricochet or ricochet.
- The film was shot in Los Angeles . It grossed approximately $ 21.76 million in US cinemas .
- Mary Ellen Trainor played the news anchor Gail Wallens. She had already played the same character in Die Hard .
Web links
- Ricochet - The impact in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ricochet - The impact on rotten tomatoes (English)
- Ricochet - The Impact in the Online Film Database
- Comparison of the cut versions VOX from 16 / Premiere MGM - Uncut , FSK 18 - Free TV (Poland) , BBFC 18 VHS - FSK 18 by Ricochet - The impact at Schnittberichte.com