The city shark

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Movie
German title The city shark
Original title Raw deal
The city hai.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Irvin
script Luciano Vincenzoni
Sergio Donati
Gary DeVore
Norman Wexler
production Martha Schumacher
music Tom Bähler
Chris Boardman
Albhy Galuten
Claude Gaudette
camera Alex Thomson
cut Anne V. Coates
occupation

Raw Deal is a American action film from the year 1986 by director John Irvin with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role. The film opened in German cinemas on August 21, 1986.

action

Mark Kaminsky was once one of the FBI's most notorious agents for his harsh methods . One day, however, when he becomes too rude against the killer of a little girl, he has to quit to forestall prosecution and dismissal from prosecutor Baxter. Kaminsky then retreats to a sleepy small town in the American southern states, where he ensures order as sheriff .

After five years as a law enforcement officer, his former superior, FBI boss Harry Shannon, gives him the chance to be rehabilitated and hired again: In Chicago , the local mafia has almost taken control and is ruling with brutal hands, while the police and judiciary are corrupt be silenced with bribes. Harry's son was also killed while guarding a key witness. Kaminsky is therefore supposed to sneak into the organization under the false name of Joseph P. Brenner on Harry's private assignment and win the trust of the godfather Luigi Patrovita in order to create the conditions for breaking up the organization.

At first everything goes according to plan. Kaminsky becomes Patrovita's confidante and in the process eliminates his competitors within the mafia. However, when he falls in love with the mafia bride Monique, he makes a mistake with grave consequences: Monique works as a double agent for Patrovita's henchman Max. Max finally blows Kaminsky's cover.

Meanwhile, prosecutor Baxter turns out to be corrupt and also works for Patrovita. Max lures Kaminsky into a trap in which he is supposed to shoot his FBI friend and client Harry in a cemetery. When Kaminsky sees who to kill, however, he shoots Max instead. Harry, who was visiting his son's grave in the cemetery, is seriously injured in the shooting. Kaminsky drives back to town and shoots all the crooks, including mafia boss Patrovita himself and Baxter.

The organization is broken up and Kaminsky is returned to the FBI as a thank you.

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role actor speaker
Mark Kaminsky / Joseph P. Brenner Arnold Schwarzenegger Thomas Danneberg
Monique Kathryn Harrold Alexandra Lange
Luigi Patrovita Sam Wanamaker Friedrich Schoenfelder
Paulo Rocca Paul Shenar Norbert Langer
Baker Ed Lauter Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Max Keller Robert Davi Manfred Lehmann
Marvin Baxter Joe Regalbuto Joachim Pukass
Martin Lamanski Steven Hill Wolfgang Völz
Chief Harry Shannon Darren McGavin Joachim Nottke
Amy Kaminsky Blanche Baker Traudel Haas
Jesus Thomas Rosales Jr. Hans-Jürgen Wolf

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives 25% positive reviews for the film and it has a Metascore of 44 out of 100 on Metacritic .

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 6, 1986 that the film at the end was far from the concept it initially pursued. Like the film Die City-Cobra, he sacrifices the plot, the characters, the logic, the plausibility, the art, the taste and the style to the “fetish of action without a break”.

The lexicon of the international film found: "Only interested in spectacular action and the blood-drenched ending, extremely questionable entertainment without directorial and acting qualities."

Trivia

  • The oil refinery that Mark Kaminsky blew up at the beginning of the film is called the Irvin Oil Processing Company . The name is derived from the director John Irvin.
  • The car that Schwarzenegger drives at the end of the film is the same one that he steals two years later in the film Twins . In Twins , the vehicle also had two bull horns on the hood.
  • The character Mark Kaminsky, embodied by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the model for the film character McBain in the animated series The Simpsons , who is played by an actor who in turn is very similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger ( Rainier Wolfcastle ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The City Hai at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  2. ↑ The City Hai at Metacritic (English)
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ The City Hai. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used