Finish with style
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Finish with style |
| Original title | Going in style |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zach Braff |
| script |
Theodore Melfi , Edward Cannon |
| production | Donald De Line |
| music | Rob Simonsen |
| camera | Rodney Charters |
| cut | Myron I. Kerstein |
| occupation | |
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Finish with style (Original title: Going in Style ) is an American comedy film of director Zach Braff from the year 2017 . It is a remake of The Retiree Gang from 1979 with a changed plot. The production was released in cinemas on April 7, 2017 in the USA and on April 13, 2017 in Germany.
action
The pensioner Joe visits his bank because he has received a dunning letter from them because he is in arrears with the repayment of his home loan. At that moment the bank is attacked by several masked men. He makes a note of the tattoo of one of them and records it for the police investigator. Joe learns from the media that the robbers could not be caught. Joe and his friends and former colleagues Willie and Al are told at a staff meeting of his former company that it has been sold abroad and is to be liquidated by a pension fund bank. When he received a message from his bank that in just a few weeks he would lose his house, where his daughter and granddaughter Brooklyn also lived, he had the idea that he and his friends could rob a bank himself to get the recover lost pension. While Willie, who would like to visit his family, who lives far away, immediately agrees to the plan, Al hesitates, but is finally ready to participate.
In the supermarket where they always shop, they “practice” stealing food. They are followed by the shop detective and finally arrested. In the market they are confronted with the video recordings, but they are finally let go. Al is extremely embarrassed because Annie works in the supermarket, with whom he is developing a relationship. Joe concludes that they need “professional” help with the bank robbery and visits his ex-son-in-law Murphy, who is a drug dealer. Jesus gives him tips for organizing the attack and organizes a training program. In order to have an alibi, Joe, Willie and Al take part in a festival that their senior club hosts. You can arrange it so that nobody notices that you are away for a while to carry out the bank robbery. Masked as the Rat Pack , they raid the same bank Joe witnessed the robbery in, following the same pattern. Willie becomes aware of a little girl who offers him her doll. Since he doesn't want that, he talks to her and tells her that he just wants to see his family more often. The girl pulls up her mask a little. She also sees Willie's wristwatch, which shows his granddaughter - a birthday present from his friends. Willie goes weak under the tight mask. This delay allows a hysterical bank clerk to grab a pistol and try to hit the robbers. Al can intimidate him by pretending to shoot him, but he only has blank cartridges in his revolver. Now the three of them can flee in the minibus provided. Jesus helps hide the money.
The three friends celebrate the coup in a restaurant. After Willie felt weak again, Joe and Al found out that he was very ill and needed a donor kidney to survive. The police track down the three of them. On the video recordings from the bank, when the girl pulls up the mask on him, one can see that Willie is an African American and an old man. Al's strange running style matches the footage from the supermarket and the bank. From Joe's help in clearing up the first robbery, Special Agent Hamer correctly deduces that this could have motivated him to rob his own bank. On the basis of the evidence, all three are interrogated, but they deny the robbery and point to their participation in the festival at the same time. Hamer organizes a confrontation with the girl who talked to Willie at the bank, but she doesn't give him away because she knows about his beloved granddaughter.
Joe promised his granddaughter a puppy for her good grades in school, which Jesus Joe would bring to his regular diner . He tells Joe that he is giving up his promised 25% share of the stolen money because it is a society's duty to look after its elderly people. Now Joe recognizes the bank robber with the tattoo in Jesus, because he said the same sentence to him the first time he robbed the bank. Jesus explains that the tattoo was not real and that it was only used to confuse the police. Hamer also comes back, but can't do anything. Well-known people such as the waitress in the local pub and the senior citizens' club are finally generously given parts of the booty by the three friends. Al becomes a kidney donor for Willie and marries Annie.
synchronization
The German synchronization was commissioned by the RC Production , after a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Sven Hasper .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Harding | Michael Caine | Jürgen Thormann |
| Willie Davis | Morgan Freeman | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Albert Garner | Alan Arkin | Jan Spitzer |
| Annie Santori | Ann-Margret | Isabella Grothe |
| Arlen Hamer | Matt Dillon | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Brooklyn Harding | Joey King | Friedel Morgenstern |
| Milton Kupchak | Christopher Lloyd | Lutz Mackensy |
| Jesus | John Ortiz | Sebastian Jacob |
| Mitzi | Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Ulrike Möckel |
| Murphy | Peter Serafinowicz | Dietmar miracle |
| Kanika | Ashley Aufderheide | Jada Zech |
reception
Gebhard Hölzl writes in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that Braff introduces "his heroes with a fine sense for details". The set pieces and the staff are all known, but the loving, brisk implementation makes the quality. The actors made up for the lack of action with plenty of puns.
Carsten Baumgardt says in the Filmstarts portal that the film begins “with a touch of realism”, but ends in a “collection of stale clichés”, wit and originality fell by the wayside. The old stars' enthusiasm for playing kept the film from "crashing completely".
Marcel Reich von der Welt defends the film against reviews that condemn it as " clichéd ". Braff would have made a very decent film out of the “not exactly full of originality” script. The main actors gave the scenes charm and wit. The borderline to slapstick is nowhere crossed, the “feel good movie” is just fun.
Web links
- Information from the film company
- Finish with style in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Finish with style in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for departure with style . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for leaving with style . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Live wilder than in the senior citizens' club. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de , April 13, 2017.
- ↑ Film review on Filmstarts.de, accessed on May 26, 2018.
- ↑ Zach Braff filmed clichés? Yes and? In: welt.de , April 19, 2017.