Dark blue

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Movie
Original title Dark blue
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ron Shelton
script James Ellroy
David Ayer
production David Blocker
Caldecot Chubb
Sean Daniel
James Jacks
music Terence Blanchard
camera Barry Peterson
cut Patrick Flannery
Paul Seydor
occupation
synchronization

Dark Blue is an American thriller directed by Ron Shelton , produced in 2002 and based on a novel by James Ellroy . Kurt Russell plays the lead role.

action

Los Angeles in 1992, shortly before the race riot : a verdict awaited in the trial of the abuse of Rodney King . The cop Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman) is trained by the older cop Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell). Perry's investigative methods are rude. A shootout involving Keough and Perry is being investigated. The police chiefs come to the conclusion that the criminal was properly shot, only Arthur Holland has doubts about the procedure, but no evidence.

Keough and Perry investigate a shop robbery that killed four people. They find out that the shopkeeper was also a pimp and that there was a large amount in the broken wall safe. The surviving witness tells them that the perpetrators are black and white. Perry has the right suspicions with the gangsters Orchard and Sidwell, but they did it for Perry's superior Van Meter, the client and profiteer of the robbery. For this reason, he orders Perry and Keough to accuse two other criminals of the crime. Perry receives a search warrant for the home of two other criminals from a clerk who pays him such favors for not disclosing their excessive sexual history, issued and signed by an alcohol-addicted judge. The search is bogus; Perry and Keough confront one of the men who has fled a short distance. Perry tells Keough to shoot the surrendering man, which he reluctantly does. The other is killed by the SWAT team. Keough misrepresents the event in front of colleagues questioning him.

Holland, currently deputy chief of police, has ambitions to become the first African American police chief in Los Angeles . His competitor Jack Van Meter has photos posted in his mailbox that show Holland having sex with his assistant. Holland's wife is demanding a divorce, Holland explains to her that the photos are five years old and that the matter with her and her subordinate was resolved at that time. Perry's marriage is also in crisis; his wife wants to leave him. Perry leaves the apartment to her. In the King trial, the verdict is announced that acquits the police officers. The police expect race riots.

Van Meter has Perry knock out to make the concealment perfect. Perry, whom Van Meter pretends to have a witness removed from, determines who lives at the address given to him: Orchard and Sidwell. At the same time, traces at the crime scene revealed Orchard's identity. Keough wants to take the two crooks into protective custody, but is shot by them in place of Perry. In the pursuit, Orchard is killed by marauding blacks, Sidwell is arrested by Perry in the city ravaged by the race riots. Sidwell confirms all of Perry's suspicions about the background to the robbery murder.

Then, at a promotion ceremony, including his own to lieutenant, Perry confesses his misconduct in his investigative methods and tells the truth about Van Meter, the robbery and the subsequent cover-up up to the attempted murder of him. He asks to be arrested so that he can report everything he knows about what happens when Holland orders a police officer to do so. It is implied that Van Meter is done for. In the end, Perry looks at the fires in the city resulting from the race riot.

background

The film was a budget of about 15 million US dollars rotated and United Artists released. The background to this film is the race riots in Los Angeles, which took place in 1992.

The German dubbing was created by the dubbing company Studio Babelsberg Synchron GmbH. Jürgen Neu was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction.

Reviews

James Berardinelli compared the film on ReelViews to Training Day and LA Confidential . He wrote that the character played by Kurt Russell was less clearly drawn than the one for which Denzel Washington received an Oscar . Berardinelli criticized some elements of the plot that wouldn't work, such as the film's ending and the “unlikely” relationship between Bobby Keough and Beth Williamson . However, the film is "drawn in" from beginning to end. Berardinelli highly praised the portrayal of Kurt Russell.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 21, 2003 that the film followed the usual formula of police films. It was thanks to the portrayal of Kurt Russell and the pictures of the street battles that he had something to say. Ebert criticized the numerous subsidiary threads of the plot.

Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote in Filmspiegel.de that the film was "haunting and not very subtle". He highly praised the portrayal of Kurt Russell.

Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote in "Entertainment Weekly" that the film is one of the few films that deal with the subject and the darker side of morality. With the exception of the films by David Mamet on the one hand and the film adaptations of the novels by Tom Clancy on the other hand, most contemporary film characters move in an ethical gray area.

Awards

  • The film was nominated for the 2004 Political Film Society Award .
  • The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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  1. ↑ Release certificate for Dark Blue . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 555 K).
  2. ↑ Dark Blue (2002) German dubbing index . Accessed January 30, 2018.
  3. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  4. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  5. ^ Critique by Wolfgang Rupprecht
  6. ^ Critique by Lisa Schwarzbaum

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