Gangland cops under fire

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Movie
German title Gangland cops under fire
Original title Gang Related
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jim Kouf
script Jim Kouf
production John Bertolli
Brad Krevoy
Steven Stabler
music Mickey Hart
camera Brian J. Reynolds
cut Todd C. Ramsay
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synchronization

Gangland - Cops under fire (Original title: Gang Related ) is an American film from 1997 directed by Jim Kouf , in which James Belushi and Tupac Shakur take on the leading roles as corrupt police officers, with Dennis Quaid , James Earl Jones , David Paymer , Gary Cole and Lela Rochon take over.

It was Tupac Shakur's last film before he was shot dead by an unknown a few months after filming was over. That is why the film was later dedicated to him.

action

Cops Divinci and Rodriguez have found a surefire way to take the law into their own hands and get rich in the process. With fake drug deals they lure drug traffickers into the trap, killing them and relieving the victims of their money. As soon as they are then put on these cases themselves, they simply put the matter on record as "gang crime". In addition, DiVinci wants to retire in Hawaii in this way, while Rodriguez wants to get rid of his high gambling debts in this way. They have committed nine murders in this way without attracting attention, but everything goes wrong with their tenth murder, because this victim turns out to be an undercover agent of the DEA , who investigated the scene and thus began to notice the whole thing. Thus, their murders threaten to be exposed.

So they try obsessively to blame someone for this murder, but the attempts fail because everyone has alibis. When they finally try to blame a homeless person who is absent-minded and who later turns out to be a rich, missing, broken doctor from a rich family who lost control of his life after his family died and the In the past as a doctor in Africa he also helped poor people with his skills, the whole thing is blown up thanks to the effective defense that the family network makes available to him. As a result, both of them become victims of their own corrupt machinations.

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role actor German speaker
Det. Frank Divinci James Belushi Joachim Tennstedt
Det. Rodriguez Tupac Shakur Tobias Master
Arthur Baylor James Earl Jones Helmut Krauss
Joe Doe / William Dennis Quaid Thomas Danneberg
Elliot Goff David Paymer Wilfried Herbst
Richard Simms Gary Cole Stefan Fredrich
Cynthia Webb Lela Rochon Martina Treger

reception

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the production to be a "[s] perturbing, carefully crafted cop and gangster film" . However, the film “reaches its limits” in those moments when “abysses in the people have to become visible” .

"Kruder genre mix of parody and seriousness"

- Cinema

Gross profit

The film hit theaters in the US on October 8, 1997 and was a flop. That is why it had its premiere in Germany on video on August 14, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last words of Tupac Shakur The world . Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Gangland - Cops under fire in the German dubbing files
  3. ↑ Gangland - Cops under fire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 15, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Gangland - Cops Under Fire (1997) Cinema . Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Gangland - Cops under fire Schnittberichte . Retrieved February 10, 2018.