Blind Side - Road to Death

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Movie
German title Blind Side - Road to Death
Original title Blind side
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Geoff Murphy
script Stewart Lindh
Solomon Weingarten
John Carlen
production Jay Roewe
music Brian May
camera Paul Elliott
cut Rick Shaine
occupation

Blindside (old .: Blindside - road to death ., English Blind Side ) is an American thriller directed by Geoff Murphy from the year 1993 .

action

Doug Kaines and his pregnant wife Lynn combined their business trip to Mexico with a few days of vacation. The Kaines are thinking of settling there. In California, the couple owns a troubled business for designer furniture, which could be produced more cheaply in Mexico thanks to lower wages. On the way home, Doug and Lynn are in good spirits, but suddenly a man runs right in front of their car on the dark country road.

Lynn, who is behind the wheel, can no longer avoid it. Horrified, the two realize that they have run over a Mexican policeman and, in a panic, hit the road. You make it over the American border and go home. For the next few days, Doug and Lynn try to calm down. But then a man named Jake Shell shows up at her furniture store and asks for a job as a salesman. You're sending him away. When Jake rings their doorbell the next day and casually mentions that he is from Mexico, all alarm bells go off for both of them. To cover up the tracks, Doug has the car repaired, which was slightly damaged in the accident. In the workshop, however, he was told that someone from the insurance company had photographed the broken grille. But Doug didn't report the damage. Doug and Lynn are deeply insecure. When Jake shows up again, they hire him as a precaution without being able to get rid of him with the help of their lawyer. Shell indicates to the couple that he knows everything and shows as evidence the police badge of the killed officer, which Doug touched and left his fingerprints on it. Doug tries to silence Shell by paying $ 30,000. At first he agrees, but later brings the money back and continues to perpetrate psychological terror against the couple. Doug researches in Mexico that the police officer's case is not being investigated for a traffic accident, but for murder resulting from two bullets in the chest with his service weapon. Doug finds this in Shell's RV. It comes to the showdown on the Kaines estate, in which Shell is killed.

Reviews

Jack Sommersby wrote on efilmcritic.com that the directing was "agile" and the performances were "charismatic". The thriller is "generic" but "entertaining".

"The initially cleverly developed psychological thriller with an excellent cast in the figure of the villain causes anxiety through surprising moments, but in the last third sacrifices the inner tension to blind actionism."

- Lexicon of international film

"Until the exaggeratedly nasty finale, the ripper builds the horror quietly and very skillfully."

- TV movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Jack Sommersby
  2. ↑ Blind Side - Road to Death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Blind Side - Road to Death on tvspielfilm.de