Order revenge
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Order revenge |
| Original title | Edge of Darkness |
| Country of production |
UK USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Campbell |
| script |
William Monahan , Andrew Bovell |
| production |
Graham King , Michael Wearing |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Phil Meheux |
| cut | Stuart Baird |
| occupation | |
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Edge of Darkness (Original title: Edge of Darkness ) is a British - American Action - Thriller .
It is a remake of the British six-hour mini-television series On the Edge of Darkness (1985; VHS release as The Plutonium Affair ). Martin Campbell directed both the series and 25 years later the feature film .
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24-year-old Emma, daughter of Boston police detective Thomas Craven, who lives alone , is doing an internship at the Northmoor nuclear research company in Massachusetts . She wants to visit her father, who picks her up from the train station and brings her to his home.
The daughter does not seem to be doing well. She is bleeding from her nose and vomits. Then she cramps and wants to be taken to the hospital. But when the father tries to bring her from the house to the car, a killer appears on the doorstep, shouts: "Craven!" And shoots the daughter with a pump gun . He jumps into a vehicle driven by an accomplice and escapes undetected.
Initially, the police assume that Thomas Craven was the target of the murder. However, after a short time of the investigation, Craven becomes aware that the attack was against his daughter. She had spied in her company and discovered that so-called dirty bombs are being secretly manufactured there, the design of which is supposed to give the impression that they were self-made by jihadists . Since she was not allowed to disclose anything to the public because of her internal confidentiality obligations, she supported environmental activists in penetrating the company and taking photo evidence. There they were all deliberately radioactively contaminated by security measures and drowned in a river on their escape. When Craven has to identify his daughter in pathology, he cuts off a strand of hair and takes it with him. In the course of Craven's investigation, other witnesses are killed. Emma's boyfriend is among them. Craven himself is pursued by two unknown men whom he successfully shakes off. As a result of the traumatic events, he repeatedly had short daydreams in which he relived scenes from his daughter's childhood.
At the same time, one sees Milroy, the political advisor to Senator Jim Pine, making contact with a mysterious British man named Jedburgh. Jedburgh is a kind of private secret agent who has been hired by the advisor to sort out a certain "matter". He is free to eliminate people if need be.
Jedburgh visits Craven shortly afterwards. Since he is sympathetic to him, he lets him live and continue investigating.
Craven searches his daughter's apartment and finds a Geiger counter. He happens to be holding him at chest height, where his daughter's hair is in his clothing. The Geiger counter shows a lot.
Craven discovers that a US Senator , his attorney, Northmoor Bennett chief executive officer, and others are involved in a conspiracy. When he questions another friend Emma's and she hands him an envelope with two video and data CDs left by Emma, an attack is committed on her life: a car hits her and tries to do the same with Craven. However, he manages to shoot the driver. The car races into a river, in which it sinks with the corpse. Emma's girlfriend survives seriously injured. Craven arrests the unknown pursuers a little later. They have no IDs, but have automatic weapons with them. However, they are released shortly afterwards and kidnap Craven to Northmoor. Shortly before, he learned that his colleague Whitehouse had also been bought by the conspirators.
Craven manages to free himself from captivity. Back home, he examines the contents of the refrigerator with the Geiger counter and when it shows a strong deflection on an opened milk bottle, he realizes that his daughter was contaminated. Craven, who himself has increasing health problems, realizes that he, too, has been poisoned and does not have long to live.
He drives to Bennett's house and kills one of his former pursuers who works as a killer and bodyguard for Bennett. When he spots the other persecutor in the house, he tortures him and forces him to shout "Craven!" From the sound of the call, he recognizes that it is his daughter's murderer. He shoots him in the head. Then Craven also kills Jack Bennett, the Northmoor manager who shot him shortly before. Craven is rushed to hospital, seriously injured.
The senator, two of his political advisers, and Jedburgh meet later. Jedburgh advises the Senator to confuse the public. Craven is said to be portrayed as a paranoid conspiracy theorist who blamed innocents for the death of his daughter. Jedburgh, who repeatedly got into moral conflict situations throughout the film, draws his gun and shoots all three. When a young policeman rushes over to them, he hesitates to shoot him because he doesn't want to shed innocent blood any more and is shot by the policeman after he lowers his gun.
Craven had already sent Emma's CDs to a young reporter who wanted to interview him. When she opens the envelope and finds the material, she rushes to her editor-in-chief.
Craven, now visibly marked by the radiation, dies in the hospital. A hallucinated final scene shows him and his daughter in good health as they leave the ward together and step into a white light.
Reviews
"The role of Thomas Craven is made for Mel Gibson and you actually take away the feelings conveyed by minimal facial expressions. [...] Martin Campbell's thriller [is] a successful drama at the same time, exciting and varied - with slight prints for minor inconsistencies - and brings Mel Gibson back to the screen. "
“The film works as a tough revenge thriller because Gibson believably conveys pain and anger as well as the professionalism of a clever cop. [...] Martin Campbell's action thriller underlines that even after a break of several years on the screen, forgiveness is impossible if Mel Gibson seeks retribution. "
“A simple thriller that sometimes does not exhaust the tension potential of its action scenes and whose political background is rather confused. As unpretentious entertainment, the film still works to a large extent, mainly thanks to pointed supporting characters. "
"[...] Because what Campbell, Monahan and Gibson write here in perfect symbiosis is not a winking orgy of destruction à la 96 Hours, but a precisely composed crime drama that has been relieved of any hectic."
Web links
- Darkness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Darkness at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Darkness at Metacritic (English)
- Order revenge in the online film database
- Order revenge in the German dubbing files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Order Vengeance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 769 K).
- ↑ Order revenge on moviemaze.de ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Order revenge on kino.de
- ↑ Mission for revenge In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Order Vengeance on filmstarts.de