Get the gringo

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Movie
German title Get the gringo
Original title Get the gringo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Adrian Grunberg
script Mel Gibson
Stacy Perskie
Adrian Grunberg
production Mel Gibson
Bruce Davey
Stacy Perskie
music Antonio Pinto
camera Benoît Debie
cut Steven Rosenblum
occupation
synchronization

Get the Gringo (aka How I Spent My Summer Vacation ) is an American action - thriller from director Adrian Grunberg from the year 2012 . Lead actor Mel Gibson produced the film and also worked on the script.

action

Two accomplices disguised as clowns - one seriously injured - flee in a car from the US police towards the Mexican border. The driver breaks through the border fence and is arrested by the corrupt Mexican police officers Vasquez and Romero. When they find $ 2 million in the car, they decide to detain the driver of the car in El Pueblito Prison in Tijuana on false charges and to embezzle the money. The now deceased accomplice is cremated. Since the driver is the only American in prison, he gets the nickname " Gringo ". The prison is a common prison town in Latin America . The gringo tries to identify the hierarchical structures of the prison and begins with minor thefts from other crooks in order to be able to survive in this place. One of his thefts is observed by a young boy who lives in prison with his mother. When an incident occurs, it becomes clear that the criminals in charge of the prison are protecting the little boy. The gringo tries to elicit from the boy why this is so. However, he does not want to tell him.

One day when the boy tries to kill Javi, the leader of the criminal family that runs the prison, the gringo prevents him from doing so. He finds out Javi has liver disease and the boy is the only possible donor. The boy's father was killed by Javi to get his liver. The gringo then promises the boy to prevent the upcoming transplant and to kill Javi. Meanwhile, an American embassy employee begins to become aware of the gringo. He can identify him as a professional criminal. Undeterred, the gringo and the boy continue to work to weaken Javi's structures. The boy's mother and the gringo get closer. When Javi's brother Caracas is rescued from a precarious situation by the gringo, he can ingratiate himself with Javi. He also tells him about the money that the police officers Vasquez and Romero embezzled. Some thugs of the American gang boss Frank, an acquaintance of the gringo who is missing another 2 million dollars, are meanwhile in the process of torturing the two Mexican police officers in order to get the money. Javi's men join in and kill everyone, which in turn infuriates gang boss Frank. With the help of the embassy employee, Frank sends hired killers to El Pueblito to kill Javi and the gringo.

The resulting shooting in the prison leads to intervention by the Mexican authorities. A prison raid is initiated. Since Javi doesn't have much time left, he orders the immediate liver transplant. He also assigns the gringo to kill Frank. Back in the US, the gringo lures Frank out of hiding by arranging a meeting between him and the influential freight forwarder Warren Kaufmann. He pretends to be Donald Trump on the phone . During the meeting, the gringo manages to kill Frank. The gringo then buttoned up the embassy employee and found out about the upcoming transplant. To save the boy, he immediately makes his way back to Mexico. There the desperate boy has meanwhile tried to slit open his liver. With the authorization of the embassy employee, the gringo succeeds in infiltrating the raid on the authorities and thus stopping the operation of the boy and Javis. By threatening to kill Javi, he can force Caracas to fetch the boy's mother. Instead, he comes back with two clubs. The gringo is killing all three. He receives unexpected support from the nurse present. She pretends to keep the gringo in check. After the latter finally shot Caracas, he, the boy and his mother are smuggled out of prison by the nurse in an ambulance. In the final scene, the gringo goes to the getaway car from the entrance scene to take away the additional $ 2 million hidden in it that Frank's men were looking for. He then settles in an idyllic beach house with the boy and his mother.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Benedict Rabanus by the synchronous company TaurusMedia Synchron GmbH in Munich.

role actor Voice actor
driver Mel Gibson Elmar Wepper
Boy Kevin Hernandez Alan Casals
Javi Daniel Giménez Cacho Enrique Ugarte
Caracas Jesus Ochoa Roberto Nuñez
Mother of the boy Dolores Heredia Zoraya Lopez
Embassy staff Peter Gerety Manfred Erdmann
Carnal Roberto Sosa Ricardo Eche
Frank Fowler Peter Stormare Leon Rainer
Vasquez Mario Zaragoza Marcantonio Moschettini
Romero Gerardo Taracena Daniel Saavedra
Bill Dean Norris Lutz Schnell
American killer 3 Tom Schanley Ole Pfennig
American killer 4 Jace Jeanes Matthias Copper
American killer 5 Clayton J. Barber Thomas Wenke
surgeon Patrick Bauchau Ulf Jürgen Söhmisch
Jackson, Fowler's attorney Scott Cohen Torben Liebrecht
Prison director Fernando Becerril Luiz Ruiz
secretary Denise Gossett Claudia Lössl
Thomas Kaufman Bob Gunton Joachim Pukass

production

The script was written by Mel Gibson . Directed by Adrian Grunberg , who is already working as assistant director with Gibson for Apocalypto . The film was produced by Gibson, Bruce Davey and Stacy Perskie . Furthermore, were involved in the production Mark Gooder , Vicki Christianson , Ann Ruark and Len Blavatnik involved. Filming began in March 2010 in San Diego , Brownsville, Texas and Veracruz , Mexico. The main part of the film was shot in Ignacio Allende prison. Benoît Debie was in charge of the camera.

publication

The film was initially released in Israel in March 2012 before being screened in 22 other countries over the next six months. In the UK, the film was released under the alternative title "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." By July 2012, the film grossed $ 4.5 million. At the US premiere on April 18, 2012, Gibson visited a cinema of the "Alamo Drafthouse Cinema" chain in Austin with Kevin Hernandez and director Grunberg. The associated press conference was broadcast in nine other cinemas. However, there was no regular theatrical release. The film was subsequently released as video-on-demand (VOD). Gibson said that more and more people were watching movies at home, so VOD was arguably the future. At Fox, Get the Gringo was first seen on May 1, 2012 as VOD, before it appeared a month later on other providers. Blu-ray release in the US was on July 17, 2012 on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on February 28, 2013.

Reviews

Get the Gringo received mostly good reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 81% positive ratings out of 52 evaluated reviews. The average rating is 6.3 out of 10. (Status: Nov. 2015)

The lexicon of international film describes Gibson's game as lackluster, but with professional routine. It fits seamlessly into the concept of a film that works primarily as a thriller.

Steve Sailer of Taki's Magazine described the film as efficient, fun, quick, and consistently entertaining. The film renews Gibson's career in a funny way and is overall above average compared to other productions from 2012.

Philip French of The Guardian wrote that Gibson to return what he does best: embody a witty, psychopathic, clever outsiders.

Tom Huddleston from Time Out London gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and said it was excellently structured, concisely written and absurdly entertaining. All of this despite its racist stereotypes and malice.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter saw a parallel to the exploitation films of the 1970s such as B. Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia .

Variety's Peter Debruge compared the film with Sam Peckinpah's and found it to be a showcase for director Grunberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Get the Gringo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 231 V).
  2. ↑ Get the Gringo. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Details on How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Mel Gibson's Other New Film | / Film . In: Slashfilm.com . December 15, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  4. ^ How I Spent My Summer Vacation . In: Screen Daily . April 13, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ Mel Gibson Set to Star In 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' . In: FirstShowing.net . December 15, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b c Get the Gringo: Film Review . In: The Hollywood Reporter . April 20, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Mel Gibson Takes A Summer Vacation . In: Screen Rant . Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ Icon Goes All In For Mel Gibson's How I Spent My Summer Vacation . In: CinemaBlend.com . February 15, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ Elizabeth Day: Mel Gibson: saint and sinner . In: The Guardian . June 5, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  10. ^ Villalpando, Nicole. Newsmakers: Entertainment (column). Austin American-Statesman, April 18, 2012, p. D-02.
  11. ↑ Horn, John. Mel Gibson's 'Get the Gringo' has a one-night theatrical run. Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2012. see latimesblogs.latimes.com
  12. ↑ GET THE GRINGO Starring Mel Gibson to Be Released Straight to Video-On-Demand . In: Collider.com . January 31, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  13. ↑ Get the Gringo . In: Blu-ray.com .
  14. ↑ a b Get the Gringo . In: Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  15. ↑ Get the Gringo . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  16. ↑ Steve Sailer: Post-Apocalypto . In: Taki's Magazine , October 17, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015. 
  17. ↑ Philip French, How I Spent My Summer Vacation - review . In: The Guardian , May 12, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015. 
  18. ↑ Tom Hiddleston, How I Spent My Summer Vacation . In: Time Out London . May 8, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  19. ^ Peter Debruge: Review: Get the Gringo . In: Variety . April 20, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.

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