Hero (1988)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hero |
| Original title | Hero and the Terror |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Firs |
| script |
Dennis Shryack , Michael Blodgett |
| production | Raymond Wagner |
| music | David Michael Frank |
| camera | Eric Van Haren Noman |
| cut | Christian Wagner |
| occupation | |
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Hero (alternative title: Hero - Der Supercop , original title: Hero and the Terror ) is an American action film from 1988 . The screenwriter Michael Blodgett wrote the novel of the same name in 1982. The film premiered with Chuck Norris in the lead role on August 26, 1988 in US and on February 23, 1989 in German cinemas.
action
Detective Danny O'Brien had tracked down serial killer Simon Moon ("The Terror") in an underground hiding place. He had draped his shelter with the partially stripped corpses of his female victims who had been killed by a broken neck. Only by a mishap on Moon was O'Brian spared this fate. Moon was arrested and placed in a locked institution , O'Brian has been called "Hero" since then.
Three years later, Moon was able to free himself through a barred window and break through the prison fence with a vehicle. The vehicle crashes into the sea, but a body is not found. A young woman disappears in a restored theater, and one day later the body of an actress is found. In order to avoid copycat offenders like three years ago, the mayor brings O'Brian to deny at a press conference that the corpse has the features of Moon. In return, O'Brian demands that a police officer be posted in the theater. But this one, a friend of O'Brian's, is also killed.
Police search parties comb the theater unsuccessfully before O'Brian finds the hideout of the animal killer from a hidden corridor after studying the floor plan. In a duel on the roof of the theater, he can push him through a skylight.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judges: “A conventional, clichéd action thriller”.
background
The film, shot in Los Angeles, was the last production with Chuck Norris in the lead role that Menahem Golan was involved in a producer position. The actual producer of the film, Raymond Wagner, had previously been responsible for Cusack - Der Schweigsame , also with Norris in the leading role.
In the United States, the film grossed around $ 5.3 million. That was less than any other Cannon Films films that starred Norris.
Web links
- Hero in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hero . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2004 (PDF; test number: 61 302 V / DVD).
- ↑ Hero. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, Hille 2013, p. 237.
- ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 238.
- ^ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 237.
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 243.