Air Force 2

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Movie
German title Air Force 2
Original title In Her Line of Fire
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith
script Paula Goldberg ,
Anna Lorenzo
production Brian Trenchard-Smith
music David Reynolds
camera Neil Cervin
cut Asim Nuraney
occupation

Air Force 2 is an American action film from the year 2006 . Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith , the screenplay is by Paula Goldberg and Anna Lorenzo .

action

Lynn Delaney is a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President of the United States Walker. He is on the way to a meeting with Asian heads of government. However, the Vice President's plane was struck by lightning and had to ditch near the Pacific island of Barago. When the survivors make it to the island's beach, they are shot at by rebels who are training on the island for a revolution in the South American country of San Pietro. The rebels are led by the American mercenary Armstrong.

Walker and Delaney manage to overpower one of the attackers, arm themselves and defend themselves against the rebels and mercenaries. They have now found out on the basis of documents that the US Vice President is among the survivors. They plan to take this hostage and exchange it for a ransom.

In the course of the fighting, Walker and shortly afterwards Delaney and the journalist Sharon Serrano fall into the hands of the mercenaries. Delaney manages to escape and single-handedly free Walker and Serrano after a fight against the rebels. In the end she defeats Armstrong just before the rescue forces reach the island.

Reviews

The Rotten Tomatoes editors wrote that the film presented an alternate world in which the United States would conduct energy and foreign policy different from the real thing. It could be the first time that a homosexual love story has been shown in an action film. (Between Secret Service agent Lynn Delaney and press officer Sharon Serrano .) The plot is " captivating ", Jill Bennett gives the character she plays a lot of charm.

backgrounds

Production costs were estimated at one million dollars . The film was shown in two US cinemas in April 2006, in which it grossed only 884 US dollars. It first aired on US television on April 21, 2006.

There are two cut versions, one of them without same-sex kissing scenes, the international version, officially for conservative countries. This is also used on DVDs in Australia and DVDs in German-speaking countries as well as for television broadcasts in German-speaking countries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uk.rottentomatoes.com, accessed on September 11, 2007 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Box Office Mojo for In Her Line of Fire, accessed July 28, 2011
  3. ↑ In Her Line of Fire premiere dates, accessed September 11, 2007
  4. ↑ Shauna Swartz: Lesbians Lead In Her Line of Fire ( Memento January 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), afterellen.com , April 18, 2006
  5. ↑ Reader's comment by Gregory Leong from Launceston, Tasmania on imdb.com, August 28, 2006
  6. ↑ Christian Genzel: Air Force 2 - Review, February 16, 2007, www.mannbeisstfilm.de/kritik/Brian-Trenchard-Smith/Air-Force-2/300.html