Bulletproof

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Movie
German title Bulletproof
Original title Bulletproof
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ernest R. Dickerson
script Lewis Colick ,
Joe Gayton
production Robert Simonds
music Elmer Bernstein
camera Steven Bernstein
cut George Folsey Jr.
occupation

Bulletproof (alternative title: Bulletproof ) is an American action comedy directed by Ernest R. Dickerson from 1996 .

action

The small crook Archie Moses works alongside his friend Rock Keats, among other things as a car thief. He trusts his partner, which is why he lets him know that he works for the drug dealer Frank Colton. Moses offers Keats to arrange a meeting with Colton to get him a lucrative job in the drug business. Keats accepts the offer. He meets Colton as a rich and at the same time suspicious drug baron know. In the end, however, Moses succeeds in getting Keats into Colton's drug business.

One day there is a big assignment for Moses and Keats. Colton has received a large shipment of drugs that needs to be reloaded in a warehouse. Keats, who works as an undercover agent , has given his police chief the tip that the drug lord Colton will be personally present at the transhipment that day. The police are preparing a raid to arrest Colton as the head of the organization. When Keats is unintentionally exposed by Moses, who is unaware of having smuggled Jack Carter, who pretends to be Rock Keats, into Colton's organization, the officer takes up arms and opens fire on the criminals. Even before the reinforcements arrive, Carter manages to catch the petty crook Moses in a remote part of the warehouse. Both point their weapons at each other without actually having the intention to use them. However, when Moses is hit on his back by a free-swinging crane, a shot accidentally goes off his weapon and hits Carter in the forehead. Moses then takes flight.

The doctors manage to save Carter, for whom lengthy rehab measures are now pending in order to rebuild the muscles that had receded during his recovery so that he can walk independently again. The rehabilitation program led by the charming and attractive physiotherapist Traci Flynn ultimately leads to the desired success. In addition, Carter and Flynn have grown closer during the time they spent together, so that they now share an apartment.

Meanwhile, Moses decides to leave for Mexico to start a new life, but is arrested in Arizona while he is drunk and sleeping on the roadside in his car. He is ready to testify as a key witness against Colton, but in return demands that Carter carry out his conviction. Then Carter is charged with protecting and transporting Moses to prison . Carter is not very enthusiastic about this and approaches Moses with corresponding dislike. But the gangsters to Colton got from Moses transfer wind and try Colton incriminating testimony to avoid court by Moses still on the tarmac ambush and opened fire on him. Carter and Moses manage to board the plane and take off. However, the pilot has been shot and killed, so that Moses, who has a little flight experience, will take over the instruments and the small plane whose tanks have been taken successfully after a short time due to lack of fuel forced landing can. Now Carter and Moses are on their own. After a long walk through the wilderness you will reach a remote hotel where you will stay. Carter informs his police chief of what is going on. Since there are police officers corrupted by Colton in the police station , Colton learns again about Moses' whereabouts and sets the wooden log cabin in which Carter and Moses are under fire at night. With the help of the innkeeper in his pickup, the two manage to escape through the woods.

Moses tries unsuccessfully to convince Carter not to inform the FBI , which is also on Colton's payroll. He also tells Carter that the shot from his gun, which seriously injured him, accidentally came off. Carter does not relieve him of his attempts to explain, nor does he believe Moses' words that he had already held the book in his hands in which Colton noted all the people he had written. When the two of them are picked up by two FBI agents at the agreed meeting point, Moses' fear that agents bribed by Colton would be sent to kill them come true. Together, however, Moses and Carter manage to get rid of the agents and they continue their journey to Carter's police station on their own. From there, the two of them make their way to Colton's mansion to get the said secret book as evidence in their possession.

At the end of a long firefight between Carter, Moses and Colton's followers, Carter and Moses as well as Colton and the Flynn he hired face each other. Moses catches a bullet in his body that Colton has fired at Carter and shoots Colton. They also manage to get the book they are looking for. Carter shows his gratitude to Moses by letting him go.

In Mexico, the two meet again later in a bar.

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles , Ridgecrest and Inyo Counties in California . Filming began on 4 March 1996 and ended on May 9, 1996. The budget of the film is 25 million dollars estimated. The film celebrated its world premiere on September 6, 1996 in Canada and the USA. The film was released in Germany as a direct-to-video production on May 15, 2003 with an FSK -16 rating on DVD . In the German version, Adam Sandler was not dubbed by his usual voice actor Dietmar Wunder , but Benjamin Völz did the dubbing. The film grossed over $ 21.1 million in US cinemas, including over $ 6 million on the opening weekend.

criticism

Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 28, 1997 that the film could make "fans of the tasteless" laugh. The director mixes violence and comedy in a "crisply" way.

The lexicon of international films judged: "An action film in the course of the buddy movies that cares little about credible character drawings and logical plot development and generates neither tension nor the desired humor."

The editorial team of Cinema sums up: " Dumb-cheek jokes on the hit list: The great Spike Lee cameraman Ernest Dickerson wastes his talent here on a rough mix of violence and slapstick."

Awards

Adam Sandler was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1997.

continuation

In 2020, Bulletproof 2, a sequel directed by Don Michael Paul , was released. Faizon Love and Kirk Fox can be seen in the leading roles .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ a b c Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Film Review , San Francisco Chronicle , Peter Stack, February 28, 1997
  5. ↑ Bulletproof. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Film review , Cinema
  7. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database