A risky plan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A risky plan |
| Original title | Man on a ledge |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Asger Leth |
| script | Pablo F. Fenjves |
| production |
Mark Vahradian Lorenzo di Bonaventure |
| music | Henry Jackman |
| camera | Paul Cameron |
| cut | Kevin Stitt |
| occupation | |
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A risky plan (original title: Man on a Ledge ) is an American thriller by Asger Leth from 2012.
action
Former police officer Nick Cassidy is serving a 25-year sentence. His former partner Mike Ackerman got him a day's leave to his father's funeral. At the funeral, Nick gets into a serious argument with his brother Joey. When the law enforcement officers try to separate the fighting brothers, Nick overpowers them and flees.
Nick Cassidy checks into a hotel under a false name. After he has had a glass of champagne in his room, he climbs out of the window onto the ledge and quickly caught the attention of New Yorkers .
The fire brigade and police cordon off the street, prepare a safety cushion and try to contact Nick in order to dissuade him from the alleged impending suicide. Nick doesn't want to speak to anyone except Lydia Mercer, a police psychologist. Unaware of Nick's identity, she quickly realizes that Nick seems determined, but doesn't want to jump into the depths. The police searched Nick's hotel room for traces without success. Lydia gets Nick's fingerprint when she offers him a cigarette and claims it will be her last one, which they then share. She then confronts him with the knowledge of his identity and the crime for which he was convicted and imprisoned: He is said to have stolen a diamond from New York businessman David Englander while he was hired for a part-time job as a bodyguard. Nick suspects that Englander, due to debts caused by the stock market crisis, orchestrated the robbery with the help of corrupt police officers - including his boss Dante Marcus and Nick's ex-partner Mike - in order to collect the insured amount in the millions. He suspects the diamond is still in Englander's possession. Nick appeals to Lydia's trust to buy time.
Opposite the hotel is Englander's office, which Nick's brother Joey and his girlfriend Angie are trying to break into at the same time. Nick's breakout was well planned with the help of Joey and Angie. The alleged suicide is intended to distract from the planned break-in, bind the police and mobilize the public. Nick has radio contact with the two of them via a hidden microphone to provide them with information about what is going on outside the office building.
The situation comes to a head when a special task force threatens to intervene and take Nick from the windowsill, because Chief Marcus now suspects a connection between the suicide situation and the expensive stone in the office building opposite. So Joey and Angie are running out of time. When they finally managed to break into the vault via the roof of the building, through elevator and ventilation shafts, the diamond cannot be found there. Since they still suspect that Englander must have hidden him somewhere in the office, they deliberately set off the alarm. Englander comes into the vault and opens another, secret vault in which the diamond is located, and takes it away. Back in his office he is overwhelmed and tied up by Joey and Angie. They take the diamond from him and take him to the hotel opposite. There they hand the stone over to the bellboy who led Nick into the room at the beginning of the film.
In the meantime, Englander can get his phone and inform Marcus that the diamond has been stolen from Joey Cassidy. Marcus therefore claims to the operations center that Nick has a bomb and demands that he be shot at immediately if he is in sight.
The hotel chase starts. On the way, Nick meets the bellboy again, who gives him his jacket with the diamond in it. Nick is placed on the roof of the hotel by Englander and Marcus, who threaten to throw his brother, who has fallen into their hands, off the roof. Nick gives the diamond to Englander out of necessity. Marcus still wants to kill both brothers as unpleasant witnesses. But he is shot by Mike, who regrets his wrong actions in the past, but is also hit himself in the exchange of fire with his boss. Lydia has meanwhile arrived on the roof, has watched the scene in the background and shoots Marcus. From the roof, Nick watches as Englander flees through the crowd of onlookers to his car parked in front of the office with the only proof of his innocence. Since he cannot reach and stop him in time on foot from the roof, he jumps into the double safety cushions prepared by the fire brigade and pursues him from there. Englander can be provided by him. Nick manages to get the diamond and present it to the TV reporters present. Nick's innocence is proven.
As a result, the charges against Nick are dropped and he is a free man. He celebrates this with his brother in a bar. The bartender is the page from the hotel who is introduced to Lydia as Nick's father, who has by no means died.
background
Police on my back is played by The Clash at the end of the credits .
The plot was similar in episode 26 of the 1959 television series No Case for FBI .
criticism
"Routinely told, but predictable thriller that is thoroughly entertaining, even if the plot and dramaturgy do not place any value on realistic authentication."
“Unfortunately, Asger Leth's ('Ghosts of Cité Soleil') thriller suffers from too many improbabilities. In addition, one suspects far too early that everything is part of the protagonist's plan of revenge. While the actors are apparently still trying their best to act against the overwhelming script chaos of a tangled story, everything is drowned out in the unbelievable banter. "
“By starting his story on the 21st floor, he increases the height of the fall and arouses curiosity. The viewer in the cinema is no different from the passers-by on the street. In lofty heights he then begins to balance with different genres, the drama mutates into a police thriller and caper movie, the private campaign of revenge into a business crime. The attention a man draws high up on a window ledge is nothing more than a well-timed diversion. Seen in this way, the star Sam Worthington also distracts from the more discreet performances of an impressive ensemble. "
Web links
- Man on a Ledge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Man on a Ledge at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- A risky plan in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for A Risky Plan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 116 K).
- ↑ Age rating for A Risky Plan . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ A Risky Plan in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 8, 2012
- ^ A risky plan on prisma.de , accessed April 8, 2012
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: On the window ledge on sueddeutsche.de , accessed on April 8, 2012