Desperate measures

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Movie
German title Desperate measures
Original title Desperate measures
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Barbet Schroeder
script David Class
production Jeffrey Chernov ,
Gary Foster ,
Susan Hoffman ,
Lee Rich ,
Barbet Schroeder
music Trevor Jones
camera Luciano Tovoli
cut Lee Percy
occupation

Desperate Measures (alternatively: Desperate Measures - every hour counts ) is an American thriller by Barbet Schroeder from 1998.

action

Matthew Conner, son of Frank Conner, a San Francisco police officer, suffers from an incurable disease. He needs a bone marrow donation . The only possible donor is Peter McCabe, a convicted serial killer.

McCabe is taken to a hospital where he escapes. The police surround the building. Conner tries to protect McCabe from his colleagues because the donor has to be alive. There is some fighting, some people die. The chief of police arrests Conner temporarily, but he escapes. McCabe overpowers the men working in the hospital's surveillance center and holed up there.

McCabe escapes from rehab. Conner follows him to a lift bridge , which is raised on Conner's instructions when the men are on it. A sniper shoots McCabe from the police helicopter, Conner protects him with his own body. When McCabe jumps into the water, Conner saves him.

Brought to the clinic, McCabe has to donate his bone marrow. After the operation, he asks a guard how the boy is doing. He takes the guard's weapon.

Reviews

The film received rather negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes scored 7 positive and 25 negative reviews. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average score of 6.1 out of 10 was determined from 15,385 users.

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that only the portrayal of Michael Keaton was worth seeing in the film. He also praised the portrayal of Joseph Cross, who made his debut in the film. The plot is just a consequence of the action scenes.

Roger Ebert , like one of the film characters, asked in the Chicago Sun-Times how many people should die to save a child. He wrote that this ethical question could generate good film drama if the film were "more thoughtful". However, the film is an "implausible" action thriller with "impossible" stunts.

Cinema 5/1998 wrote that the film started “strong” but then wore off.

TV hearing and seeing 18/1998 described the film as a “sophisticated thriller”, but criticized the “huge material battle” and the number of deaths.

The lexicon of the international film said: “The interesting psychological and ethical starting situation, which puts the life of the boy, the killer and his persecutor in a relationship worth considering, is overlaid by the elaborate staging as an action spectacle that takes place during a night in a hospital plays. "

epd film 5/98: "It's a fast-paced, gripping action thriller, a breathtaking roller coaster ride of emotions."

Awards

Andy Garcia won the ALMA Award in 1999 .

background

The film grossed $ 13.8 million in US cinemas . Most of it was filmed in Pittsburgh , and still in Fresno and San Francisco , but the action takes place entirely in San Francisco. At one point in the film, there is a chase in a tunnel (or sewer), where the scene in which the characters walk into that tunnel was filmed in Pittsburgh, but they came out in San Francisco.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Desperate Measures . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 79 605 V).
  2. ^ Desperate Measures ending
  3. ↑ Desperate Measures on rottentomatoes.com , accessed March 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Desperate Measures on imdb.com , accessed March 26, 2020
  5. ↑ James Berardinelli: Critique
  6. ↑ Roger Ebert: Critique. In: Chicago Sun-Times , Jan. 30, 1998
  7. ↑ a b Desperate Measures ( Memento from October 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
  8. ↑ Business Data for Desperate Measures. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Filming locations for Desperate Measures. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .