The diamond cop
| Movie | |
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| German title | The diamond cop |
| Original title | Blue streak |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Les Mayfield |
| script |
Michael Berry , John Blumenthal , Stephen Carpenter |
| production |
Toby Jaffe , Neal H. Moritz |
| music | Ed Shearmur |
| camera | David Eggby |
| cut | Michael Tronick |
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Blue Streak is an American action - comedy from the year 1999 from the Director Les Mayfield . The main role is played by Martin Lawrence .
action
Los Angeles . Miles Logan steals a diamond with three accomplices . During the coup, however, the traitor Deacon shoots an accomplice and wants to take the diamond. In the chase that followed, Logan managed to hide the diamond in the ventilation shafts on a construction site shortly before he was arrested. Two years later he was released from prison and discovered that the construction site had become a police station. After an unsuccessful attempt to get into the work area of the guard, he manages to impersonate a detective transferred to Los Angeles by forging a police ID. While trying to get into the ventilation shafts via the ladies' room, he is surprised by a fleeing convict, whom he is forced to turn off. Thereupon Chief Rizzo and the other police officers become aware of Logan, who identifies himself as Detective Malone, and he is assigned greenhorn and paragraph rider Carlson as a partner.
Logan is now forced to work on cases with Carlson in the field, where he happens to be involved in a robbery perpetrated by his former partner Tulley. To save Tulley from being shot and to keep his identity from being exposed, Logan enters into a deal with Tulley by promising him a share of the diamond if Tulley allows himself to be arrested by him. The apparently spectacular arrest increases Logan's reputation in the Department considerably, so that Rizzo promptly promotes him to Chief Detective.
Meanwhile Logan has managed to get to the place where he once hid the diamond. However, he has to find out that he is no longer there. He learns of water damage that happened some time ago and the diamond was flooded through the shafts. He finally locates it above the evidence room . In the meantime, however, Carlson has become suspicious, since he could not find out anything about a Detective Malone during independent investigations and the number of his police badge does not exist. Logan debunked these facts by telling Carlson that he was undercover and, in fact, a member of Internal Affairs to uncover abuses in the department.
Logan is now looking for an excuse to visit the evidence room. The opportunity arises when Logan and Carlson confiscate a large number of drugs. Logan grabs the diamond only to accidentally drop it back into the big pack of drugs.
The purpose of the pack is to set a trap for the drug transport buyer, the drug lord LaFleur. The FBI is involved. Logan, who does not volunteer as an undercover agent in this extremely dangerous case in order to stay on the trail of the diamond, accompanies the package, which is brought by truck to the meeting point, a warehouse of an organized criminal gang. He grabs the diamond again, but is surprised by Deacon who suddenly appears and who has since discovered Logan's new identity, who then takes the stone. LaFleur and his aides appear before the FBI and police storm the building. During the attack, Deacon flees towards the Mexican border, closely followed by Logan, the FBI and the LAPD. Only after crossing the border does he find Deacon and give him the choice of wandering into a Mexican or an American prison, in other words: to surrender to him or to be arrested by the approaching Mexican police officers. He takes the diamond from him and is about to leave when suddenly the old rival pulls out a hidden gun, whereupon Logan shoots him.
Logan returns to his unit, where the web of lies is slowly tightening, as no one can find out which unit he was transferred from. To escape the net, he tells his colleagues that he is a neighborhood Mexican and works for the Mexican secret service. He walks away in the direction of the Mexican border, but is called to a halt by Carlson. Carlson tells him that he knows he is Logan because thanks to him he learned to think like a gangster. However, before calling Logan, Carlson waited until Logan was on the other side of the border to Mexico, which means that the US police no longer have access. They say goodbye to Logan, who has become likable to them in the meantime, and who walks away in the direction of the Mexican interior with the 17 million dollar diamond in the final sequence.
reception
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The film received mixed reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film was able to convince 36% of the film critics, based on 69 reviews, and 65% the audience with around 202,000 votes and formulated as a synopsis : “Martin Lawrence gives it its comedic note, but the film is not much more than a normal one Action comedy film. ”. At Metacritic , a Metascore of 46, based on 26 reviews, could be achieved. At IMDb , the film received 6.9 out of a possible 10 stars with around 70,700 votes. (As of December 31, 2019)
“That could have been an acceptable crime thriller, because the tension is created by a subplot in which an evil ex-member of Mike's gang wants to get the diamonds with all his might and walks over corpses. On the other hand, it could have been an acceptable comedy if Martin Lawrence and some of his fellow activists weren't constantly producing themselves so vainly and silly in front of the camera and the overall humor was a little more subtle. This also includes the usual, at times unbearably stupid knocking of words ('I'll tear off your lips and kiss my ass with them!'). So it is nothing halved and nothing whole: just an insignificant star vehicle of mediocre entertainment value. "
"Dull crime comedy in which the main actor is forced to distract from the flaws of the gag-free script with crude silliness."
Grossing results
The film offered a budget of over 65 million US dollars . Around 118 million US dollars were grossed in cinemas around the world. In the US alone, the film grossed around 69 million US dollars. The film recorded 1,093,983 visitors in Germany, placing it at number 39 on the 1999 annual charts.
Web links
- Blue Streak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue Streak atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Diamond Cop at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed December 31, 2019
- ↑ a b c The Diamond Cop at Metacritic , accessed December 31, 2019
- ↑ a b Blue Streak in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on 31 December 2019
- ↑ The Diamond Cop , prisma.de
- ↑ The Diamond Cop. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Blue Streak. Box Office Mojo , accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ The most successful films in Germany 1999. In: insidekino.com. Accessed December 31, 2019 .