Shootout - no mercy
| Movie | |
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| German title | Shootout - no mercy |
| Original title | Bullet to the Head |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Walter Hill |
| script | Alessandro Camon |
| production |
Alfred Gough , Alexandra Milchan , Miles Millar , Kevin King Templeton |
| music | Steve Mazzaro |
| camera | Lloyd Ahern II |
| cut | Suzanne Hines |
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Shootout - No Mercy (Original title: Bullet to the Head ) is an American action film from 2012 with Sylvester Stallone in the lead role. Directed by Walter Hill , the screenplay is by Alessandro Camon . It is based on the graphic novel Blei im Skull ( Du plomb dans la tête ) by Colin Wilson and Matz ( Alexis Nolent ).
The film was first shown at the International Film Festival in Rome on November 14, 2012. It started in the United States on February 1, 2013; in Germany on March 7, 2013. The production budget was about 55 million US dollars (about 40.53 million euros ).
action
Contract killer Jimmy Bobo teams up with young Washington DC policeman Taylor Kwon to investigate who was behind his partner's murder. The search leads them through dodgy back alleys into the power centers of New Orleans.
In the city of New Orleans, the killer Jimmy Bobo and his partner Louis Blanchard kill a corrupt former MPDC police officer, Hank Greely. Bobo leaves a witness, the prostitute Lola, alive. Blanchard is later murdered in a bar by another killer, Keegan, who also tries to kill Bobo, but fails. Washington, DC, Detective Taylor Kwon arrives in New Orleans to investigate the death of his former partner and meets with Lieutenant Lebreton, who informs him that Lola has confirmed Greely was murdered. Kwon goes to the morgue, and after seeing Blanchard's body and finding out who he is, concludes that Blanchard and Bobo killed Greely. Meanwhile, Keegan meets with his employer Robert Morel and Morel's lawyer, Marcus Baptiste. Baptiste reveals that Greely tried to blackmail Morel and provided local gangster Baby Jack with a file on Morel's illegal operations. Keegan later kills Baby Jack and his men and retrieves the file.
Kwon meets Bobo at a bar and tells him that he knows Bobo and Blanchard killed Greely. Bobo leaves, and when Kwon tries to follow him, he is attacked by corrupt police officers who have been instructed by Morel to prevent Kwon from doing any further research on Greely. Bobo saves Kwon and takes him to a tattoo parlor, where Bobo's daughter Lisa treats Kwon's wounds. Later they go to a massage parlor where Bobo is interrogating Ronnie Earl, the middleman who hired Bobo and Blanchard for Morel. Ronnie Earl tries to kill Bobo, but Bobo manages to kill him even though his gun blocks. Bobo later confronts Kwon, who admits he tampered with Bobo's gun, which nearly caused his death.
Bobo and Kwon agree to work together. Bobo and Kwon kidnap Baptiste and take him to Bobo's house, where he is forced to give them a flash drive. It lists Morel's plans to acquire residential projects and demolish office buildings. Keegan, Baptiste explains, is a former mercenary hired as Morel's enforcer. After that, Bobo shoots him in the head.
Keegan and his men track Baptiste's cell phone to Bobo's house, but Bobo and Kwon escape and detonate a bomb, killing Keegan's men. Keegan escapes and swears revenge on Bobo. Angry with Bobo's methods, Kwon leaves him and proceeds alone. Kwon meets with Lieutenant Lebreton to ask for his help, but Lebreton tries to kill him as he is also on Morel's payroll. Bobo kills him and saves Kwon.
Meanwhile, Keegan learns of Lisa and kidnaps her. Morel then calls Bobo and offers to trade Lisa for the flash drive. Bobo agrees and meets with Morel in an abandoned warehouse, where he delivers the flash drive to him and Lisa is returned to him while Kwon infiltrates the building to arrest Morel. Keegan gets angry when Bobo is allowed to leave; he kills Morel and his men before confronting Bobo; They fight until Bobo stabs Keegan in the throat and Kwon shoots him from a distance. Kwon retrieves the flash drive, and Bobo shoots him in the shoulder to make it look like Kwon couldn't get hold of him
production
Shootout - No Mercy was filmed in New Orleans ; Shooting started on June 27, 2011. The film had the working title “Headshot”. On August 23, 2011, the US launch date was set to April 13, 2012. However, the date was postponed to an unknown time on February 23, 2012. Ultimately, the film opened in the United States on February 1, 2013.
reception
The film was received in two ways by critics. Currently (May 22, 2018) Rotten Tomatoes has a 46 percent rating in 138 reviews.
"Sylvester Stallone shoots people in the face. That's it for subtext in this formula action swill. Why do I sound like I should expect more. Because the credits list the director as Walter Hill. […] It's forgivable to watch Stallone sell out. [...] But dragging Walter Hill down with him, that's a fighting offense. "
“Sylvester Stallone shoots people in the face. That’s the end of it when it comes to subtext in this formula-action-nonsense. Why do I sound like I'm expecting more? Because Walter Hill is listed as a director in the credits. [...] It is excusable to see how Stallone does its own sale. [...] But dragging Walter Hill down with you is against the rules. "
“After Skyfall , another great recovery film that we desperately need. An aging Sylvester Stallone fights against villains, but actually against the postmodern refraction and intellectualization of his character. Walter Hill's completely anti-academic film is not a homage to the eighties: it collapses strength and age and restores calmly and relaxed the essence of Stallone in the middle of the present. "
“Exciting, action-packed thriller that is less about the plot than about the interaction between the two different main characters. The staging takes the buddy motif ironically to extremes. The film benefits from funny, laconic dialogues and a powerful, earthy rock score, which additionally drives the action. "
“SHOOTOUT - NO GRACE finally offers again great staged action scenes in which the main actor Sylvester Stallone literally blossoms. It remains to be seen whether director Walter Hill will celebrate a comeback despite the mediocre script. But the film is definitely good for a genre journey back in time to the good old 80s! "
“The action film is a number revue, of course, but Shootout has more of the dryness of an outdated user manual than of the speed and the show values of its more successful genre colleagues. […] At the end of the day there is one more trump card that Shootout knows how to play with masterly: Sylvester Stallone's expressionless, even lifeless look. A look that can absorb everything, that wants to mean everything when it means nothing. "
Web links
- Shootout - Grounded in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shootout - No mercy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Shootout - No Mercy at Metacritic (English)
- Shootout - No mercy in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for Shootout - No Mercy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2013 (PDF; test number: 136 960 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Shootout - No Mercy . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Sylvester Stallone to Star as Hitman in 'Headshot'. The Hollywood Reporter , February 6, 2011, accessed January 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Shootout - No Mercy at Rotten Tomatoes (English), accessed on May 22, 2018.
- ^ Peter Travers: Bullet to the Head . In: Rolling Stone . 1st February 2013.
- ^ Philipp Stadelmaier : Shootout - No mercy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 7, 2013.
- ↑ Shootout - No Mercy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Review: Shootout - Keine Gnade (2013) on kino7.de ( Memento from March 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Review: Shootout - No grace critic.de