Acts of Violence (2018)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Acts of Violence |
| Original title | Acts of Violence |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Brett Donowho |
| script | Nicolas Aaron Mezzanatto |
| production |
Anthony Callie , Randall Emmett , George Furla , Mark Stewart |
| music | James T. Sale |
| camera | Edd Lukas |
| cut |
Ryan Eaton , Frederick Wardell |
| occupation | |
Acts of Violence is an American feature film by director Brett Donowho from the year 2018 .
action
Mia celebrates her bachelorette party in a bar where she picks up two pimps, who later kidnap her in front of the bar. It seems strange to her fiancé Roman MacGregor that she doesn't answer her cell phone when he calls. He and his brothers Deklan and Brandon, two former Army rangers , go on a search. Using an app, he can locate Mia's cell phone so that she can come to a house from which two tied up women are about to be brought into a van by two gangsters. The three are able to overpower the gangsters, and Deklan discovers more trapped women in the house and shoots a third gangster. But Mia is not among the women.
Cop James Avery, who has long been investigating a ring of women traffickers and kidnappers, explains to the brothers that their action was illegal and could cause them problems. He advises them to leave the search for Mia to the police. Unimpressed, the three keep looking. Mia's friend Haley, who works as a stripper , tells them about the argument with the pimps who make women addicted to drugs and force them into prostitution .
The MacGregors kidnap one of the pimps and learn, under torture, that Mia is being held in a factory that the gang's boss, Max Livingston, runs as a drug lab. However, they were filmed during the kidnapping, so Livingston knows who kidnapped his husband.
When the brothers break into the factory building, there is a shooting, in the course of which Brandon is wounded. However, they are too late. Mia is no longer at the factory. It had since broken out but was recaptured by Richard, Livingston's right-hand man. Meanwhile, the brothers drive to Brandon MacGregor's house, where they find his wife murdered.
Avery, who has since been ordered to stop investigating Livingston because he is an FBI informant, decides to work with the MacGregors. When the criminals load the abducted women into a truck in a camp to take them to Las Vegas , they are ambushed by the brothers. After several gangsters are dead and Livingston has fled, they can free Mia and the others from the truck. Avery and his colleague Brooke Baker get the other women to safety in a van.
Mia and the MacGregors are attacked at Brandon's house that evening. In a wild shooting, Brandon is killed and Livingston injured, who then flees. When Livingston collects money and papers in a hiding place, he is shot by Avery, who has since left the police force in frustration.
background
Acts of Violence was filmed in Cleveland . In the United States, the film was released on January 12, 2018, in Germany it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 3, 2018 .
criticism
Markus Fiedler from Filmstarts sees Acts of Violence as a "weak revenge film with familiar faces who don't have time to make something out of their roles." He criticizes that "the few really good ideas [...] quickly turn into a hail of bullets." Victims [fall]. "
According to the film service , it is a "largely unimaginative [n], brute [n] thriller, which exercises its vigilante justice issue completely uncritically and enriched with plenty of macho attitudes."
Cast and dubbing
Acts of Violence was dubbed at Digital Media Technologie under the dialogue direction by Matthias Klimsa , who also wrote the dialogue book .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Willis | Manfred Lehmann | Detective James Avery |
| Cole Hauser | Clemens Gerhard | Deklan MacGregor |
| Shawn Ashmore | Oliver Boettcher | Brandon MacGregor |
| Ashton Holmes | Jannik Endemann | Roman MacGregor |
| Melissa Bolona | Franciska Friede | Mia |
| Tiffany Brouwer | Kristina von Weltzien | Jessa MacGregor |
| Sophia Bush | Celine Fontanges | Detective Brooke Baker |
| Mike Epps | Stephan Benson | Max Livingston |
| Matthew T. Metzler | Holger Löwenberg | Richard |
| Cashmere voucher | Alexa Benkert | Allie |
| Nicolas Petron | Ben Hecker | Ben |
| Kyle Stefanski | Robert Kotulla | Davis |
| Rotimi | Tobias Schmidt | Frank |
| Jenna B. Kelly | Leoni Kristin Oeffinger | Haley |
| Patrick St. Esprit | Eberhard Haar | Hemland |
Web links
- Acts of Violence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Acts of Violence in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Acts of Violence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Markus Fiedler: Acts of Violence. Criticism from the Filmstarts editorial team. In: film starts . Retrieved September 9, 2018 .
- ^ Acts of Violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Acts of Violence. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 9, 2018 .