Blood and Bone
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| German title | Blood and Bone |
| Original title | Blood and Bone |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Ben Ramsey |
| script | Michael Andrews |
| production | Matthew Binns, Michael Mailer, Nick Simunek, Michael Jai White |
| music | Nicholas Pike |
| camera | Roy H. Wagner |
| cut | Dean Goodhill |
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Blood and Bone is a Ben Ramsey action film based on a 2009 screenplay by Michael Andrews . The film was produced directly for the DVD market. In addition to martial arts actor Michael Jai White in the lead role, numerous fighters from the MMA scene play, such as Bob Sapp , Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano .
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The opening credits show a scene in the washroom of a prison in which inmate Bone defends himself successfully and deliberately against several other inmates around leader JC, who attack him with self-made stabbing weapons.
After his release, Bone finds a room with Tamara, who runs a small guesthouse , in a suburb of LA . In the evening he mingles with the audience of the illegal street fight scene. There, gangs let their best fighters compete against each other, on whom high stakes are placed. Bone witnesses Hammerman, the bully of the unscrupulous gang leader James, knocking the promoter Pinball's fighter unconscious. Bone makes a deal with Pinball to bring him into the scene as a fighter and collect 20% of the money won. After initial hesitation, Pinball agrees. Bone meets James, who does the dirty work as the henchman of Mafia boss McVeigh, and his lover Angela. Bone learns from Pinball that James accused Angela's husband of a triple murder, for which the latter was convicted and sent to prison. When James found out Angela was pregnant, he forced her to have an abortion , made her a drug addict, and made her his playmate.
Bone defeats his opponent with two quick kicks. On the following evenings, Pinball takes him to the various venues for street fights in the city, where Bone usually wins superiorly and makes large sums of money for his manager. During the day he gets to know the people in his pension better: Tamara, his single landlady, Roberto, an older man with whom he plays chess, and Jared, a boy whom Tamara took in when his father went to prison and his mother disappeared.
One evening the fight against the so far undefeated Hammerman, James' best fighter, takes place. Although he seems physically superior, Bone can defeat him because of his speed and technical superiority. James is impressed and proposes a deal to Bone. The international street fighting scene is controlled by an organization of powerful, wealthy men called the "Consortium". Their managers Franklin McVeigh, a black market - arms dealers , organized fights in which it comes to millions. James wants Bone to take on the consortium's best fighter, undefeated Pretty Boy Price.
Bone replies that he'll think it over. To make the decision easier for him, James sends him to the room with Angela, to whom Bone is obviously attracted. In the room, Bone reveals to Angela that he was Angela's husband, Danny, cellmate. In a flashback, you can see that Bone promised to take care of Danny's family after his release. Shortly thereafter, Danny is stabbed and fatally injured by the same thugs Bone dealt with in the opening credits.
Angela says that shortly after her husband went to jail, she gave birth to a son but lost custody and doesn't know if he's still alive. Bone, realizing that the prodigal son must be Jared, asks James to let Angela go with him for a while. Instead of going to his pension, however, he takes her to a rehab clinic.
The next day, James meets with McVeigh and offers him $ 5 million for Bone to fight Pretty Boy Price. McVeigh pressures James not to embarrass himself and threatens punishment. In the evening, Bone finds old Roberto, who has been mangled by James' dogs on a back street because he had involuntarily witnessed one of the murders of James. Bone cancels the planned fight, which enrages James. He sends his rackets to the rehab clinic. There, however, they are expected by Pinball and Bone, who take them out and bring Angela to safety. Since James threatens to have everyone killed, including Tamara and the boy, they follow him to McVeigh's mansion. There Bone meets the consortium and James. The latter reveals to him that he framed Angela's husband for the murder and also organized his death in prison. Bone secretly films this with his cell phone , and Pinball, who overhears, sends the recording directly to the police.
Bone again refuses to fight Pretty Boy Price, but when the latter shows up, the altercation is inevitable. Shortly before he defeats Price, however, Bone knocks on the floor as a sign of his task. James, who lost all of his efforts, pulls his katana out of the cane and furiously attacks Bone. McVeigh's bodyguard throws a Jian at Bone , but Bone throws the blade away and only defends himself with the sheath . In the middle of the fight, he blocks an attack from James, which leads to the fact that the swing cuts off his own left hand. At that moment the police appear, but Bone is able to disappear.
The next day, Angela can hug her son again at Tamara's pension. Tamara offers Bone to stay, but Bone refuses, instead offers her an envelope with money and asks her to let Angela stay with her until she is "clean" again. In the end, he says goodbye to Pinball, saying he still has things to do. In the credits you see James being attacked by JC's gang in the prison washroom in order to rape him "with regards from McVeigh".
Reviews
“In addition to the really crisp fight scenes, curiously, of all things, it is the actors who make BLOOD AND BONE such a pleasure: Michael Jai White, blessed with a bombastic charisma, is once again with verve the consistently bad-tempered antihero who immediately strikes him when someone hits him the nuts go. However, Eamonn Walker is really in the juice as Bones opponent James. The exalted, eccentric performance that Walker launches here creates astonishment and enthusiasm in each of his scenes. "
"Blood and Bone is a solid beating film with an unsurprising story and an impressive one-man army in the form of Michael Jai White."
background
- The budget was $ 4 million. The filming locations were various locations in Los Angeles .
Web links
- Blood and Bone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blood and Bone at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blood and Bone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Moviepilot.de .
- ^ Moviemaze.de .