Assault on Wall Street
| Movie | |
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| German title | Assault on Wall Street |
| Original title | Assault on Wall Street |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Uwe Boll |
| script | Uwe Boll |
| production | Daniel Clarke |
| music | Jessica de Rooij |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut | Thomas Sabinsky |
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Assault on Wall Street is a Canadian film directed by Uwe Boll from the year 2013 with Dominic Purcell in the lead role. The drama deals with the topic of the financial crisis from the point of view of a simple employee. The film was released in the USA on July 30, 2013. In Germany, it was released directly on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 27, 2013.
action
Jim Baxford works as a money truck driver . His wife Rosie is seriously ill with cancer. In order to pay the installments for the common house despite Rosie's loss of earnings, Jim works in double shifts. After the health insurance coverage is reached, Jim plans to cash out the savings from his previous military service. He learns from his financial advisor that the reserves have largely been used up by a loss-making real estate investment due to the financial crisis and that a payment of US $ 60,000 is due. An attorney cannot help Jim after paying an upfront fee of $ 10,000. Jim's employer learns of his financial situation and can no longer entrust him with the money transport, causing Jim to lose his job and receive an official severance payment and a generous unofficial cash settlement for his overtime and long-term loyalty. Rosie sees herself as the cause of Jim's money worries and problems and, plagued by guilt, takes her own life.
After a brief mourning Jim touches his the decision, investment bankers of Wall Street to take revenge, which he attributes the blame for their situation. He buys weapons with the last of his money and initially deliberately kills individual investment bankers, for example on the way to or from work. He then shot and killed his personal investment advisor Robert Canworth with an M4 assault rifle from a parking garage in a plaza on Wall Street and then other overt bank employees. Then he goes masked into the bank, which is responsible for the loss-making real estate investment, to confront the managing director in his office. First, he shoots numerous bankers at random and detonates two hand grenades. Arrived at the managing director's office, Jim tricked him into picking up an unloaded pistol when a SWAT team stormed the room and shot the managing director. Jim is led out of the building unmolested, especially since his arm is injured. The film ends with a monologue in which Jim vows to continue until all the guilty parties have been punished.
background
In the audio commentary on the DVD release, Uwe Boll said that he was wondering why there is no film on the financial crisis that focuses on the common citizen. He wanted to make a film about the anger and fighting back when the bank strikes.
Casting
In the expectation that Assault on Wall Street could become the most important film about the financial crisis, Boll tried to cast the leading role with a well-known actor so that the film could be presented to a wider audience. The candidates for Boll were Viggo Mortensen , Ryan Gosling or Gerard Butler . Boll was only able to arouse interest from Jesse Metcalfe ( Dallas ), who, however, dropped out a week before shooting began, as he feared that the rigorous killing scenes in the film could damage his further career. Metcalfe's manager placed Dominic Purcell in the lead role. Purcell himself had also lost money on real estate investments. Boll cast other roles with Edward Furlong , with whom he had previously worked ( Darfur , Siegburg ), and Erin Karpluk ( Being Erica ).
production
Most of it was shot in Vancouver . Boll had a week's general filming permit in New York City to shoot scenes with Purcell and Furlong. The permit was only valid for side streets and generally in places where traffic is not obstructed. According to Boll, in some cases the shooting team also made recordings without a permit, since hardly anyone paid any attention to whether the shooting team was complying with the limits imposed. The city shots are stock footage and holdovers from a commercial that Boll shot for Pall Mall .
Trivia
- The newspaper USA Today has printed free fictional expenses for the film.
- Dell provided computers free of charge that were primarily used for office scenes.
- Purcell was originally supposed to wear the Guy Fawkes mask, which became famous through the Occupy movement . Since Time Warner had secured the rights to the mask for the film V for Vendetta , a similar mask was used.
criticism
The film was shot differently. While the IMDb is more likely to favor the film with 6.1 out of 10 points from the votes of 17,162 viewers, it does rather poorly with the critics of Metacritic with 24 percent of 4 evaluated reviews. The average user rating is 6.2 out of 10 based on 46 ratings (as of October 12, 2016). A similar picture emerges on Rotten Tomatoes: 25% of the critics rated the film as good, while 41% of the audience rated the film positively (as of October 2016).
“A frustrated security guard whose savings have been speculated by an arrogant financial 'guru' takes revenge on the allegedly guilty in a highly physical manner. Simple vigilante film, which selects socially sanctioned victims with Wall Street brokers in order to kill them with relish. "
“Boll's belated contribution to the financial crisis articulates without restraint the anger that many of those affected by the crisis harbor, including a politically and morally questionable showdown. In terms of content, the whole thing is of course at the regulars' table level […], but for Boll's standards it is surprisingly subtle and technically clean. Jim's crash is a bit constructed, but its consequence creates an oppressive pull. "
“Even those who accept“ Assault on Wall Street ”as a pure exploitation ripper and therefore ignore the presentation of the anti-banker arguments at the regular table level will hardly have fun with the toothless, tepid events. So better watch "Rampage" again - Uwe Boll has already done a lot better (because more radical) with it. "
“The financial crisis as a film topic? So far, this has only existed from the perspective of bankers and the financial system. The “little man” who loses his savings because he entrusts them to unscrupulous financial advisers is left out. The German cult director Uwe Boll changes that with a revenge thriller that is absolutely worth seeing. "
“An impressively intense film that shows a side of the director that I would not have expected from him. Chapeau! "
Web links
- Assault on Wall Street in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Assault on Wall Street in the online movie database
- Assault on Wall Street atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Assault on Wall Street in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Assault on Wall Street . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 162 V).
- ↑ Assault on Wall Street (2013) Release Info. In: IMDb . IMDb.com, Inc., accessed April 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Audio commentary with Uwe Boll , included on the Splendid Film DVD
- ↑ a b See web links
- ↑ Assault on Wall Street at Metacritic (English)
- ^ Assault on Wall Street in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Assault On Wall Street. In: Cinema . cinema.de, archived from the original on December 19, 2015 ; accessed on April 2, 2018 (the page is accessible, but the content has been changed).
- ^ Christoph Petersen: Assault On Wall Street. In: film starts . FILMSTARTS.de, accessed on April 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Badtke: Greed is cool? Greed is deadly! In: ntv . n-tv.de , October 7, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2018 .
- ^ Christian Funke-Smolka: Assault On Wall Street (Splendid Film). In: We Want Media. We Want Media, October 25, 2013, archived from the original on October 26, 2013 ; accessed on April 2, 2018 .