Chuck Norris - Hitman

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Movie
German title Chuck Norris - Hitman
Original title The Hitman
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Aaron Norris
script Robert Geoffrion ,
Don Carmody
production Don Carmody
music Joel Derouin
camera João Fernandes
cut Jacqueline Carmody
occupation

Chuck Norris - Hitman (Original title: The Hitman ) is a 1991 action film with Chuck Norris and Michael Parks in the lead roles. Directed by Aaron Norris , the brother of Chuck Norris.

action

Seattle cop Cliff Garret is betrayed and critically wounded by his partner Ronny "Del" Delany during an operation.

Garret dies briefly in the emergency room but is revived. At the direction of his police chief, Garret is officially declared dead and given a new identity. Garret is smuggled into the organization of Mafia boss Marco Luganni as the killer Danny Grogan.

The plan is to play Luganni against the Canadian gangster Lacombe and arrest both organizations. After a while, Iranian drug traffickers suddenly get involved and try to provoke a war between the two parties.

Grogan now plays all parties against each other and his plan works, until suddenly his past catches up with him and Delany, who is secretly working with the Iranians, recognizes his old partner Garret in Grogan. Delany tries to force Grogan to collaborate by tying a boy from Grogan's neighborhood to an explosive chair. Delany sets off the bomb, but Grogan survives and the boy is hospitalized, seriously injured.

Grogan is believed dead and so Luganni, Lacombe and the Iranians meet in a warehouse at the port. The Iranians, with the help of the Italians, shoot Lacombe and his men on orders from Delany. Then the Italians, who then wanted to kill Delany and the Iranians, get themselves into an ambush planned by them and are also shot. But then, unexpectedly, Grogan appears at the crime scene. There he kills each of the Iranians in an exchange of fire and overpowers Delany. He then lets Delany hang out of a window, tied to a chair. When Grogan's police chief appears and wants to arrest Delany, he is blown up with the chair. Grogan had set the chair with explosives, just as Delany did with the boy next door.

Trivia

  • It is the fourth Chuck Norris film directed by his brother Aaron Norris.
  • The film opened in US cinemas on October 25, 1991 and grossed approximately $ 4.65 million. In Germany, the film was released directly on video on March 1, 1992 under the title Hitman .
  • The original title of the film project was On the Edge and was supposed to be directed by Steve Carver . He had previously directed the films The Giant (1981) and McQuade, the Wolf (1983) with Norris in the lead role. However, when the production of the film was relocated to Canada for financial reasons , Carver was replaced by Aaron Norris.
  • The filming took place mainly in Canada from December 1990 to March of the following year. Some parts also originated in Washington, United States.
  • The film was the last collaboration between the production studio Cannon Films and Chuck Norris that a film was released in theaters. Most recently there was a cooperation with Hellbound , which was produced in 1992, but was not released on video until 1995.

criticism

The lexicon of international films ruled that the production was a "[k] made-up gangster film" that was "even more eager to copy and kill" than previous films. "[G] celebratory [...] shootings" should serve as a substitute for "tension" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, Hille 2013, p. 259.
  2. ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 260f.
  3. ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 261.
  4. ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 265.
  5. ^ Chuck Norris - Hitman in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used