Blitz - Cop Killer vs. Killer cop

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Movie
German title Blitz - Cop Killer vs. Killer cop
Original title lightning
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (shortened), 18
Rod
Director Elliott Lester
script Nathan Parker
production Donald Kushner
Steve Chasman
Zygi Kamasa
Brad Wyman
music Ilan Eshkeri
camera Rob Hardy
cut John Gilbert
occupation
synchronization

Blitz - Cop Killer vs. Killer Cop is a British thriller from the year 2011 , which on the novel flash of Ken Bruen based.

action

Three teenage car crackers try to break into the car of the police officer Tom Brant when he shows up and brutally beats the teenagers with a hurling stick. In the press , this behavior received a massive echo directed against the police. Detective Sergeant Brant often breaks rules and applies undue pressure during his job to get his goal. Some time ago, for example, he knocked out a rioter in a billiard bar who was threatening other guests.

Although Brant is often offensive with his behavior, he is popular with many colleagues because of his collegial manner. So he stands by his boss, Chief Inspector Roberts, at the funeral of his wife. He also supports his colleague Elisabeth Falls, who has only recently returned to work after undergoing addiction therapy . She had worked as an undercover agent in the drug environment and had become a drug addict herself.

One day the young policewoman Sandra Bates is shot dead by a stranger in the street. To clear up the case quickly, an investigative team is formed, which includes not only Brant, but also the newly assigned Detective Inspector Porter Nash. Since Nash is known to be homosexual, Brant initially ridicules him, and he is also bullied by his colleagues, not least because of his appointment as head of the investigative team, which bypasses much older colleagues.

Meanwhile, the sensational reporter Harold Dunlop, who excelled in his articles in defaming Brant in particular, receives a call from the police murderer Barry Weiss in which Weiss reveals that he wants to kill a total of eight more police officers and that he will start immediately. In fact, he immediately shoots police officer Theo Nelson in his company car.

In the meantime, Brant's colleague Falls receives a visit from young petty criminal John "Metal" Wales, whom she knows from before and who confesses to a robbery on a man he may have killed. He asks her for help. She then turns to Brant, who refers her to the processing inspector Craig Stokes.

While looking for information, Brant meets his informant Radnor. He tells about Weiss and that he recently boasted that he had spread a video of animal abuse on the Internet. Brant visits Nash in his apartment. He talks about Weiss and also about his own occasional dropouts, which he tries to get under control with alcohol. In return, Nash admits that some time ago he went to a pedophile , who could not be proven, in his apartment and worked with a baseball bat until he was neutered . You decide to pay a visit to the suspect Weiss. In his presence they search his apartment, but find nothing incriminating. Brant reveals to Weiss that he remembers him as the rioter in the billiard bar he beat up.

The angry Weiss then goes to his next victim. It is Roberts, whom he follows to his apartment. After a scuffle, Weiss kills the policeman, takes his uniform and sets a fire. Then he contacts Dunlop again, brags about the third victim and says that from now on he only wants to be called "Blitz", as in Blitzkrieg . He hides Roberts' uniform in his vehicle, which is parked in a parking garage. Radnor, who followed him there, sees an opportunity to make a lot of money on this information by selling it to Dunlop. For a promise to receive payment of £ 50,000 , he leads Dunlop to Weiss' car. They are observed by Weiss, who follows them into a bar where the deal between Radnor and the reporter is to be handled. When Radnor goes to the bathroom to count the money, Weiss follows him and kills him. Then he takes the money and hides the incriminating evidence before it falls into the hands of the reporter or the police.

In the meantime, Elisabeth Falls is meeting with Craig Stokes to find out about the state of the investigation into his attack on behalf of her friend, "Metal" Wales. Falls and Stokes develop feelings for each other and they go out together at night. Meanwhile, Brant has found out that all of the police officers killed had previous exposure to Weiss and that Falls could be his next victim. He sets out to warn her. Falls and Stokes fight on the way home, and Falls goes to her apartment alone. Suddenly she is attacked by Weiss. Wales appears and can stop the killer from slaying Falls, but is killed himself. Weiss disappears and Brant is late at the scene.

Weiss is written out for a manhunt, and soon afterwards information about his whereabouts is received. Brant and Nash want to arrest him with a task force, but he can escape first. Brant chases him through the city to a train depot, where he is finally arrested. He is interrogated but has to be released for lack of evidence. He presented himself triumphantly to the waiting press. Meanwhile, Stokes finds out that Falls has relapsed. She suppresses drugs while searching a dealer and later uses them herself at home. Stokes informs Brant and Nash, who visit her and sober up her.

Brant and Nash realize that they cannot prove anything to Weiss and decide to take matters into their own hands. Brant seeks out Weiss to provoke and insult him. When Roberts' funeral later takes place, Weiss goes there in the previously captured police uniform to kill Brant. However, he leaves the ceremony and, pursued by murderous Weiss, drives into town to the parking garage where Weiss had previously parked his car. Just as he is about to catch Brant, the murderer realizes that he has followed Nash, who is wearing Brant's hoodie. At that moment he is overpowered by Brant and beaten with a crowbar. Weiss mocks the police officers, saying that he will turn to the press about the mistreatment and sue for millions in compensation for pain and suffering. Brant, on the other hand, keeps him in check with his own weapon and gives him to understand that Weiss wears a police uniform and that the wanted killer kills police officers in such uniforms with the same weapon that he is holding in his hand. He then shoots Weiss and leaves the scene with Nash, remarking that the case will probably remain unsolved.

In the last scene Brant lets two attack dogs loose on Dunlop and turns away satisfied.

background

Blitz - Cop Killer vs. Killer Cop was filmed in London . Filming began on August 10, 2009. The film celebrated its international cinema premiere on May 6, 2011 in Turkey . Its European box office debut was on May 18, 2011 in Estonia , after which it was launched in England two days later . The film grossed the equivalent of 11.2 million US dollars worldwide. The film was released on DVD on August 23, 2011 in the USA. It was published in Germany under the title Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer-Cop released on November 4th, 2011 by Universum Film directly on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-18 rating.

German dubbed version

actor German speaker role
Jason Statham Leon Boden Detective Sergeant Tom Brant
Aidan Gillen Benedikt Weber Barry Weiss "The Lightning"
Luke Evans Pascal Breuer DI Craig Stokes
David Morrissey Matthias Klie Dunlop
Paddy Considine Manou Lubowski Porter Nash
Alex Lanipekun Alex Turrek Precocious Police Officer
Ned Dennehy Tobias Lelle Radnor

Soundtrack

The following music tracks can be heard in the film:

criticism

The film received mixed reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted 11 positive out of 24 professional reviews, which corresponds to a value of 46%. There were also mixed to negative reactions from the general public, because at the same time only 37% of 4,858 users rated the film positively. This in turn is not confirmed by the online film archive IMDb , another platform on which registered users can submit their film reviews, because the 63,955 votes cast there resulted in an above-average value of 6.2 out of 10 possible points.

In the Hollywood Reporter wrote Jordan Mintzer, the film was "less lightning than a dud." Jason Statham plays a quick-witted and rowdy police officer, but the grand finale is rather "terribly flat". Mintzer also said that the director lacks the "right oomph" to deal with the sensitive issue of police brutality.

"Although the plot is becoming increasingly stupid and unrealistic," Cath Clark was surprised in the Guardian that the film was "strangely entertaining." She also noted that a “revenge film genre” might be seen, as a homosexual partner of a police officer and a harmless straight flirt are unusual for such films.

The lexicon of international films said that the film is a "tough and dark thriller with believable characters".

Robert Cherkowski from Filmstarts thinks Blitz - cop killer vs. Killer-Cop is an “urban cop thriller” that comes along “with the handbrake on for a long time”. “The thin story structure” of the film “by no means means all kinds of action, rioting and cool slogans”. The "Statham ripper" does not materialize, although "violence is propagated as a tried and tested means of conflict resolution". Blitz is "not a film of low tones", but "an astonishingly unspectacular cop / serial killer thriller", which is staged "grimly dark and nihilistic", at the same time "helpless and uninspired". The film "works without inspiring". "The real attraction of the film comes from its actors and their chemistry with each other", especially between the team of investigators, judges Cherkowski. Cherkowski awarded 2.5 out of a possible 5 points for the "solidly staged and predictable entertainment that is forgotten faster than watched, but can be consumed painlessly at any time and is occasionally even fun".

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Clearance Certificate for Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer cop . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, May 2011 (PDF; unabridged version).
  3. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations , accessed November 3, 2013
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results , accessed November 3, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Launch Dates , accessed November 3, 2013
  6. ↑ Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer-Cop at boxofficemojo.com , accessed December 29, 2012
  7. ↑ Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer cop. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 3, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Lightning. rottentomatoes.com, accessed October 11, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer Cop in the Internet Movie Database (English) retrieved on October 10, 2015
  10. ↑ Jordan Mintzer: Blitz: Film Review on hollywoodreporter.com of June 23, 2011 (English), accessed August 1, 2011
  11. ↑ Cath Clarke: Blitz - review on guardian.co.uk of May 19, 2011 (English), accessed August 1, 2011
  12. ↑ Blitz - Cop-Killer vs. Killer Cop in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed March 30, 2012
  13. ↑ Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Robert Cherkowski, accessed on November 3, 2013