96 hours
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| German title | 96 hours |
| Original title | Taken |
| Country of production | France , United States |
| original language | English , French , Albanian |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 93 minutes |
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FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Pierre Morel |
| script |
Luc Besson , Robert Mark Kamen |
| production | Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam , India Osborne |
| music | Nathaniel Mechaly |
| camera | Michel Abramowicz |
| cut | Frédéric Thoraval |
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96 Hours (Original title: Taken ) is a French action thriller from 2008. Directed by Pierre Morel , the screenplay was written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen . With 96 Hours - Taken 2 (2012) and 96 Hours - Taken 3 (2014), two sequels were created. The prequel series Taken - The time is your enemy has been broadcast since February 2017 .
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Bryan Mills could n't spend much time with his daughter Kim because of his job as a secret agent , so he took early retirement for her sake. 17-year-old Kim, who lives separately from him with his ex-wife Lenore and their rich new partner Stuart, is planning a trip to Europe with her friend Amanda. Despite initial protests from Bryan, who is concerned for her safety, he finally agrees. After landing in Paris , the girls at the airport share a taxi with Peter, a member of an Albanian trafficking ring , who finds out their address in this way. When Kim was on the phone with Bryan later, some men break into the apartment. While they are dragging Amanda out of the apartment, Kim hides under the bed in the bedroom on her father's advice. He gives her instructions that as soon as the men find her, shout out all the details. So he learns that the men have a tattoo on their hand. Finally, one of the kidnappers picks up the phone lying on the floor and Bryan makes it clear to him that he will find and kill him, whereupon the man with a clear accent says only two words: "Good luck."
Bryan turns the phone call he had recorded as a precaution to his former secret service colleague . He learns that the kidnappers belong to a notorious Albanian girl trafficking ring that uses drugs to make girls compliant and force them into prostitution . He has 96 hours to find the girls before they are resold and all traces are lost.
Bryan immediately sets off for Paris. Once there, he succeeds in identifying the scout at the airport using a photo on Kim's cell phone. On the run, however, this is run over by a truck. Bryan now asks Jean-Claude, an old acquaintance with whom he has dealt with on business, for help. Since he now has a senior desk post with the police, he cannot help him much. All he does is tell him about the increase in girl trafficking and advise him to leave the matter to the police. On his own, Bryan hires a translator and goes on the street to put a bug on a pimp . So Bryan learns that the girls are on a construction site. There he finds a girl who is wearing his daughter's jacket and takes her to a hotel with her guards after a shooting. When the young woman wakes up from her drug intoxication, Bryan gets a tip to a girls trading center in Paris, where numerous girls are drugged.
There he pretends to be a policeman with Jean-Claude's business card, who has taken over the precinct and wants to renegotiate bribes. When he recognizes the leader by voice as his daughter's kidnapper - by having him translate a piece of paper with the Albanian words for "good luck" on it - Bryan kills everyone except Marko, the gang's leader, in another shootout . Upstairs he finds Amanda, dead in bed. He then tortures Marko with electric shocks until that the buyer of his daughter, Patrice Saint-Clair, reveals that she as a virgin in a auction will auction off. Despite the confession, he leaves the power on when he leaves the room, which means certain death for Marko. Bryan visits Jean-Claude at home and forces him to help him by shooting his wife in the arm and threatening him with the gun himself. Jean-Claude admits he is on the girls' payroll and gives him Patrice Saint-Clair's address. In Saint-Clair's villa, Bryan witnesses his daughter being auctioned in the basement. He forces a bidder who is the assistant of an Arab sheik to buy his daughter. When he tries to get to his daughter, however, he is struck down by Saint-Clair's men.
Saint-Clair orders his men to murder Bryan and heads upstairs to meet his guests. But Bryan is able to get out of this situation, kills Saint-Clair's men and shortly afterwards puts him in the elevator. After several shots in the arms and legs, Saint-Clair confesses that Bryan's daughter is already being brought to the Arab buyer on his yacht , which is anchored not far on the Seine; then he is shot dead by Bryan with great anger. With a lot of effort, Bryan gets to the yacht after a wild chase, on which he kills the numerous bodyguards after a violent exchange of fire, finally penetrates to the buyer and kills him too. In this way he manages to free Kim and bring him safely back to her mother in Los Angeles .
background
The film was shot in Paris and Los Angeles from February 2007 . Its production costs were estimated at 30 million euros . It premiered in French cinemas on February 27, 2008, the German theatrical release was on February 19, 2009, and was shown in Austria one day later. 96 Hours hit US cinemas on January 30, 2009 and topped the box office charts there on the opening weekend. At theatrical release, the film came in over $ 222 million worldwide, including $ 145 million in the United States. In Germany, a total of 432,000 viewers saw the film in cinemas.
Former Special Air Service member Mick Gould trained with Liam Neeson to prepare him for his role. He was taught Nagasu Do , a martial art based on Judo , Aikido and Jiu Jitsu .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin .
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Reviews
Bernard Besserglik said in The Hollywood Reporter in 2008 that the action thriller was formulaic and in places involuntarily funny. Liam Neeson succeeds in hinting at the vulnerability and weaknesses of the character played, but Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace would remain trapped in their two-dimensional roles.
Carsten Baumgardt stated in the online magazine filmstarts.de , "Thanks to an excellent leading actor, pithy, fast-paced action and a funny trash appeal that always resonates, the film has what it takes to become a cult hit."
The OÖN wrote that “this B-thriller was a foreseeable slaughter” and “instructions on how to find out the names of dark figures with hundreds of nails and starter cables”, “nothing more”.
The editorial team of Cinema was of the opinion: "Although the screenplay, based on an idea by Besson through to the cliché-laden finale, uses very striking black and white painting - the adrenaline rush that Neeson unleashed as a merciless fighting machine on his solo vengeance through the Parisian underworld, you simply cannot escape. ”This is also“ due to the breathtaking fight sequences ”- thanks to“ a terrifyingly realistic fighting choreography that is not geared towards martial arts elegance but towards effectiveness ”. “On the other hand,” Neeson says, “with all the unswerving exhibited, the worries of a desperate father shimmer through again and again - and that makes the anger of his character understandably fair”. Cinema's conclusion was: "If you can hide the dramatic simplicity and questionable message, thanks to Liam Neeson you will experience an adrenaline rush in a class of its own!"
Michael Ranze from the Hamburger Abendblatt wrote that 96 Hours “unabashedly follows the conventions of the avenger film”. “The film's image of foreigners” is “devastating”, as is “this kitschy ending”. For Ranze, the film was ultimately "a clumsy and outrageous action fairy tale, without irony, without a false bottom, without understanding."
The lexicon of the international film judged: “An action film that unleashes a revenge carnage over mountains of corpses in the style of a first-person shooter game, which, despite the good lead actor, lacks credibility and sophistication. The brutality of the staging repels just as much as the uncritical celebration of bloody vigilante justice. ”(The review originally appeared in the Catholic film magazine Film-Dienst .)
Kai Mihm came to a much more positive verdict in the film magazine epd Film . He awarded four stars out of five and wrote: “As a former cameraman, Morel has an extraordinary sense of space and perspectives, and unlike in contemporary American productions, in 96 Hours you can always keep track of what's going on, even in the wildest battles. Leading actor Liam Neeson turns out to be a real stroke of luck. After other filmmakers used Neeson's impressive physicality and his deep, always sovereign-sounding voice primarily to give historical figures such as Oskar Schindler , Rob Roy or Michael Collins the necessary authority, Besson and Morel now link the weight of this actor's history with Neeson's undreamt-of talent as a tough action hero. […] As in Belmondo films, Paris is not a tranquil tourist destination here either, but a dark metropolis of crime. With films like 96 Hours , Besson practically single-handedly takes up the tradition of the European thriller (Delon! Ventura!). We can only hope that others will follow suit. "
Awards
The film received a 2010 Saturn Award nomination in the Best International Film category. The year before, composer Nathaniel Méchaly won the BMI Film Music Award . The flick was also nominated for the Teen Choice Award in the Action / Adventure category.
Sequels
In December 2010, Liam Neeson confirmed that there would be a sequel to 96 Hours . It was also reported that he had already signed for the film and that production should begin in spring 2011. In addition, a series has been announced that will be shot after the second part, whereas Luc Besson has already rejected rumors about a third film. Neeson repeated the confirmation of the production of the second part in February 2011, but made it clear that the story was still being worked on. Luc Besson also confirmed the film in March 2011. The start of the shooting was planned for November 2011 or early 2012 at the latest. According to a previous media report, the director of the first part, Pierre Morel , was involved in the preparation of the sequel; Olivier Megaton was ultimately chosen to direct . The script was again written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen .
The German film title of the sequel is 96 Hours - Taken 2 . The film opened on October 5, 2012 in the USA and a few other countries, followed by the first previews on October 10, 2012 in Germany , where the film was officially launched one day later. 96 Hours - Taken 3 was released in January 2015. At the end of February 2017, NBC started broadcasting a TV series in the United States called Taken , which acts as a prequel to 96 Hours . Clive Standen can be seen as Bryan Mills in the lead role .
Web links
- 96 Hours in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 96 Hours at rotten tomatoes (English)
- 96 Hours at Metacritic (English)
- 96 Hours in the online film database
- 96 hours in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 96 hours . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 093 K).
- ↑ Age rating for 96 hours . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ cf. empireonline.com
- ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ box office results on boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ cf. media-control.com
- ↑ Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ 96 Hours in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Bernard Besserglik: Taken. In: The Hollywood Reporter , February 26, 2008.
- ↑ cf. filmstarts.de
- ↑ Black and white painting takes a bloodbath. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , February 21, 2009.
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Michael Ranze: Kidnapper Hunt in Paris - A father sees red. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 19, 2009.
- ↑ 96 Hours. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Kai Mihm: 96 Hours. In: epd Film , issue 2/2009
- ↑ cf. irishcentral.com
- ↑ a b cf. denofgeek.com
- ↑ cf. lopeztonight.com ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. lovefilm.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. beyondhollywood.com ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
