Faster (film)

Movie
German title	Faster
Original title	Faster
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2010
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	George Tillman Jr.
script	Tony Gayton ; Joe Gayton
production	Tony Gayton ; Liz Glotzer ; Martin Shafer ; Robert Teitel
music	Clint Mansell
camera	Michael Grady
cut	Dirk Westervelt
occupation
	Dwayne Johnson : James "Driver" Cullen; Billy Bob Thornton : Slade "Cop" Humphries; Oliver Jackson-Cohen : "Killer"; Carla Gugino : Detective Cicero; Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje : Alexander Jarod; Lester Speight : Hovis "Baphomet" Nixon; John Cirigliano : Kenneth Tyson; Maggie Grace : Lily; Xander Berkeley : Sergeant Mallory; Moon Bloodgood : Marina; Aedin Mincks : Tommy; Matt Gerald : Cullen's brother; Jennifer Carpenter : Nan Porterman; Tom Berenger : prison director;
synchronization

Faster is an American action film from 2010. The film was released in German cinemas on March 17, 2011.

action

James Cullen, nicknamed "Driver," is released from prison after ten years in prison. He was arrested because he and his brother were involved in a bank robbery. However, their hiding place was betrayed by a stranger. A group of gunmen murdered all those involved in the bank robbery in order to force the loot to be surrendered and not to leave any witnesses. Only Cullen barely survived a headshot. In his last conversation with the prison warden, he admonished Cullen to become a better person. However, Cullen has a clear goal. With a Chevrolet Chevelle SS (model 1970–1972) he drives to an office building and shoots an employee named Prescott Aernton. Using a list that Cullen commissioned from a private investigator, he learns all the names of the people who were involved in the murder of his brother.

Meanwhile, Cullen is followed by Detective Cicero and a middle-aged cop named Slade Humphries, who is known as a cop , whose life has turned upside down from drug use. They are investigating Prescott Aernton's murder and watching the video footage from the office's surveillance cameras. Cicero remembers Cullen's face, but cannot yet place it. A short time later, a nameless contract killer is hired, who is known as a "killer" and is supposed to kill Cullen. He tells his friend Lily that this will be his last job. The conflict between his work and his love for Lily seems too serious for him.

Meanwhile, Cullen has already identified his second victim on the list. It's an old man named Kenneth Tyson who makes his own snuff films . Tyson is surprised by Cullen while he is about to assault a girl he has drugged in his apartment. Cullen kills him, thereby saving the girl and escaping the apartment. Meanwhile, the killer has long since picked up Cullen's trail and has followed him. Both have a shooting in the hallway. Cullen can flee, the killer feels the defeat as a disgrace and finds it difficult to deal with the fact that he could not fulfill his last assignment.

Cicero investigates Cullen's past and finds out that he was betrayed after the bank robbery. Cicero remembers a video that the investigators had at the time showing the execution of the bank robbers. Investigators agree that Cullen is about to murder everyone involved in the ambush.

Meanwhile, Cullen visits his ex-girlfriend Nan, who is also on his list. She now has a new family and a child. He learns that due to Cullen's incarceration, they aborted their unborn child. She knows about Cullen's vengeance and wishes him that he will be successful. Nevada is Cullen's next target to find and kill another person on his list. The wanted Hovis Nixon, called Baphomet, once killed Cullen's brother and now works as a bouncer in a strip club. Since Cullen can't take his guns to the club, he stabs Nixon with the help of an ice pick he could get at the bar. He leaves the scene believing Nixon is dead. However, a radio report informs Cullen that Nixon survived the crime. Humphries and Cicero anticipate Cullen's return to his final victim to finally kill his brother's killer. In fact, Cullen goes to the hospital and kills Nixon during an operation that was supposed to save his life. Humphries tries to take the opportunity to overpower Cullen. Instead, Cullen is given the opportunity to kill Humphries, but spares him since, unlike his victims, he has no feelings of revenge against the police officer. Cullen leaves the hospital and escapes. On the way, he is pursued again by the killer who is on him. After a high-speed chase on the highway , Cullen shoots the tires on his pursuer's car. The killer wounded Cullen with a graze in the neck.

Cullen goes to the penultimate name on his list. It's his father's name. However, Cullen learns from his mother that he is already dead and that Cullen is an illegitimate child. She also convinces him that the latter is not responsible for the betrayal because, unlike him, he really loved his biological son - Cullen's brother and accomplice in the bank robbery - and therefore would never have betrayed him. After his mother tends to his neck wound, he goes on to kill the last man on the list. It is about Alexander Jarod, a Protestant traveling priest whose sermons Cullen has been following on the radio over the past few days. Jarod is already expecting Cullen and asking for forgiveness as he changed his life and dedicated himself to preaching about forgiveness. Cullen returns to church after sparing Jarod at the last moment. There he meets a killer who threatens him with a gun. However, Cullen does not fight back, which infuriates the killer as he sees his honor hurt. Killer reveals that Cullen's list is not yet complete, as his client was also involved in the ambush.

Humphries arrives as a policeman and tells Killer to put down his gun, otherwise he would die. When he does, Humphries surprisingly shoots Cullen in the back of the head; it turns out he hired the killer. After all, he wants to hand the killer his usual pay - a symbolic dollar - for the job. However, he refuses, since it was not he but Humphries who shot Cullen, and indicates that he is out of business from now on. Standing on the beach, Humphries calls his girlfriend Marina, Cullen's brother's ex-girlfriend. It was she who once betrayed the brothers during their bank robbery and gave Humphries the tip to steal the loot of the bank robbery from the bank robbers. Suddenly, however, Humphries is shot by Cullen, who had survived through a metal plate in his head that had deflected the bullet. Before Cicero enters the church and then discovers Humphries' dead body on the beach, Cullen has already fled. Even before their trip, she had learned by fax that Humphries was involved as a criminal in the case, but kept this background secret so that he would instead be remembered as an honorable victim.

After Cullen avenges his brother's death, he throws his brother's ashes into the sea and drives away.

background

Pre-production

Salma Hayek was originally intended for the role of Detective Cicero, but she had to decide against participating in the film due to overlapping filming, so that this role was ultimately assigned to Carla Gugino . Phil Joanou was initially discussed as a director before George Tillman Jr. took over directing.

Filming

Filming took place in various locations in California , including Los Angeles , Tehachapi , Pasadena and Santa Clarita . They started on February 8, 2010 and ended on April 27, 2010.

post-production

The German trailer for the film shows how the killer is finally killed by Cullen. He collides head-on with the killer's Ferrari on the highway. Cullen's car is catapulted over the Ferrari and destroyed. Then you see the killer lying dead on the highway and Cullen walking away. This scene cannot be seen in the film. This is an unused scene, as director George Tillman Jr. explains in the "Extras" on the DVD. A test audience did not think it was good that the killer who was not unsympathetic should die, which is why the script was changed and the killer's death scene was cut. It was also planned that Cullen would be followed by dozens of police vehicles in the final sequence and thus caught. This scene was also left out in favor of an open ending.

publication

The film opened in the United States on November 24, 2010 and grossed US $ 35.6 million worldwide on a budget of US $ 24 million . The film opened in Canada on the same day. The German audience only got to see Faster on March 17, 2011.

On August 25, 2011, the film was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-18 rating.

German dubbed version

The German dubbing was done at Interopa Film in Berlin . The dubbing was directed by Andreas Pollak .

actor	German speaker	role
Dwayne Johnson	Ingo Albrecht	James "Driver" Cullen
Billy Bob Thornton	Joachim Tennstedt	Slade "Cop" Humphries
Lester Speight	Marco Kroeger	Hovis "Baphomet" Nixon
Carla Gugino	Victoria Storm	Cicero
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	Charles Rettinghaus	The evangelist
Annie Corley	Joseline Gassen	Driver's mother
Sidney S. Liufau	Tilo Schmitz	Kenny
Oliver Jackson-Cohen	Gerrit Schmidt-Foss	killer
Maggie Grace	Josefin Hagen	Lily
Michael Blain-Rozgay	Helmut Gauss	News presenter
John Cirigliano	Matthias Klages	old man
Mike Epps	Olaf Reichmann	Roy Grone
Xander Berkeley	Reinhard Kuhnert	Sergeant Mallory
Michael Irby	Sebastian Christoph Jacob	Vaquero
Tom Berenger	Axel Lutter	Warden

reception

According to Rotten Tomatoes , the film received mixed reviews. The professional audience gave the film an average rating of 42 percent.

“No sense and no frills action film, which in its straightforward, dry staging is reminiscent of the genre cinema of the 1970s and thus also grounds some ludicrous plot moments. The crude revenge drama doesn't even try to cover up its violent plot with "socially critical" tips, but instead delivers simple and fast-paced genre entertainment. "

- Lexicon of international film

“[The trailer] suggests […] what you would expect from a film with the title 'Faster': lots of blasts, cool onliners, hot women - so the perfect film for a relaxed evening at the cinema with popcorn and beer. But what director George Tillman Jr. presents here is anything but easy-to-digest action cinema to switch off your brain and have fun. Rather, the surprised viewer can expect a dark revenge drama. "

- Roger Förster, film starts