CHiPs (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crisps |
| Original title | Crisps |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dax Shepard |
| script | Dax Shepard |
| production |
Andrew Panay , Ravi D. Mehta |
| music | Fil Eisler |
| camera | Mitchell Amundsen |
| cut | Dan Lebental |
| occupation | |
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CHiPS is an American comedy film directed by and with Dax Shepard from 2017 . The film is based on the TV series CHiPs, which was broadcast from 1977 to 1983 . Next to Shepard, Michael Peña takes on the second leading role.
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Jon Baker, a former motocross champion, lives with his ignorant ex-wife in a Los Angeles house . As a result of countless operations after falls in competitions, he suffers from various pains, swallows heaps of pills and is not psychologically up to date. His left humerus was replaced with a metal prosthesis. Baker is applying to the California Highway Patrol .
FBI agent Castillo lives in Miami Florida . As an undercover agent, he is the driver of the getaway vehicle for a gang of bank robbers. In the event of a coup, he ensures that his partner's murderer is arrested. He accidentally shoots his colleague Clay Allen. After this incident he is sent under the code name Frank “Ponch” Poncherello to an internal investigation against five corrupt cops in Los Angeles, where he is again undercover, this time as a Highway Patrol Cop. His boss becomes Clay Allen of all people.
In spite of his various mental quirks and physical problems, Baker is hired as a motorcycle policeman on probation and is said to be characterized by great dedication so that he also remains a policeman.
The police lieutenant Vic Brown and his accomplices raid a money truck on the highway, where they also use motorcycles. It becomes apparent that the driver of the van is in league with Brown. Finally, a police helicopter arrives. One of the pilots is also involved in various crimes with Brown. Brown accuses the two of them with embezzling money during the ongoing robbery and gives the pilot the choice of whether he wants to die or his companion, the transporter driver, should be killed. The pilot then takes his own life by jumping out of the helicopter.
Baker develops an exaggerated eagerness to pass his probationary period that Ponch can barely contain. Initially, Ponch tries to keep his partner out of the internal investigation, but this is soon no longer possible. They are called to another robbery on a money transporter and pursue the two motorcycles, but they escape. During the investigation, they discover that the dead helicopter pilot had to do with the money carrier robberies and discover a lead to Lt. Vic Brown. Brown's son, who was also a professional crosser, takes part in the raids under the leadership of his father.
Baker and Ponch organize faster bikes and watch Brown's house. They get involved in the ongoing investigation by Ponch's boss Allen. They try to arrest the lieutenant and his son, but both gangsters escape. After a wild chase, one of the gangsters on his motorcycle is beheaded by a wire rope stretched across the road. The dead turns out to be the son of Brown, whom Baker knew from his past. Jon Baker suffers a serious accident that brings him to hospital. Brown, his nephew and several accomplices escape. After this failure, Ponch is fired by his FBI boss. He is later sworn in as a highway patrol cop.
Brown kidnaps Baker's ex-wife and holds her captive on a large estate. There it comes to the showdown between Brown, his people and the two Highway Patrol officers, in which Ponch loses a few fingers of his right hand and Baker is hit in the arm with the metal bone, in which a ricochet accidentally kills the villain Brown.
After that, Ponch stayed in Los Angeles as a highway patrol cop and went on patrol with Baker.
background
The film premiered on March 20, 2017 in Hollywood at the TCL Chinese Theater . In Germany, it was released in cinemas on April 20, 2017.
At the end of the film, the actor Erik Estrada from the original TV series CHiPs can be seen as a medic.
criticism
The film received rather negative reviews from critics. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , it has an average rating of 18% (3.7 / 10), based on 78 evaluated reviews (as of March 2017).
Web links
- CHiPs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site for the film (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for CHiPs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for CHiPs . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ CHiPS on Rotten Tomatoes