Karen McCoy - The Cat

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Movie
German title Karen McCoy - The Cat
Original title The Real McCoy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Russell Mulcahy
script William Davies
William Osbourne
production Martin Bregman ,
Willi Bär
music Brad Fiedel
camera Denis Crossan
cut Peter Honess
occupation

Karen McCoy - The Cat (original title The Real McCoy ) is an American film by the director Russell Mulcahy from 1993. The film belongs to the genre of heist movies .

action

Karen McCoy is released from prison after six years. She was serving a sentence for bank robbery. After her release, she wants to get her life back on track, but because of her criminal record, she cannot find a job. An encounter with the father of her six-year-old son Patrick, who works for a used car dealer, is no less frustrating: he told Patrick that his mother was dead and that she had to come to terms with it. Her probation officer Gary Buckner, who initially tried unsuccessfully to molest her sexually, brings her to her former client Jack Schmidt, who lives in a castle-like property with a private zoo. Schmidt tries to win them over to another bank robbery. When she refuses, the greasy Buckner kidnaps little Patrick on Schmidt's behalf. Although she manages to free her son, her car breaks down with an engine failure while on the run. It again falls into Buckner's hands, who knocks her down and brings her and her son back to Schmidt's estate.

Karen is now ready to work together. Disguised with a wig and sunglasses, she scouts the security system of the targeted bank several times, in whose vault there are said to be 18 million dollars in cash. With the help of the construction plans of the bank and the circuit sketches for the alarm system, she designs a detailed schedule for the nightly bank robbery, in which Schmidt as a welder and other gang members, including the petty crook JT Barker, with whom she and her son Patrick become friends . The day before the planned robbery, she hides a remote-controlled model car under one of the stand-up ashtrays in the customer room. The plan works: Thanks to this model car, the alarm is triggered several times within a very short time. Each time, several patrol cars pull up, the police turn off the alarm to check the customer area. The bank robbers use these short breaks to work their way up to the vault in stages. After the last alleged false alarm , the system was switched off, but three police officers remained behind to guard the bank.

Thanks to Karen's manipulation of the security system's computer program and Schmidt's welding work, the door to the vault opens. The robbers stow the cash supplies in travel bags. In their euphoria , Schmidt and his helpers notice too late that Karen and Barker have left the vault with some of their bags in order to lower the steel grille that closes it. The angry Schmidt and his cronies are now locked in; he shoots the fugitives several times without hitting them. They throw a smoke cartridge into the bank's customer room, and the policemen waiting there pass out. You can leave the building through a back exit.

Barker and McCoy drive to Schmidt's estate to pick up Patrick. At the last moment they succeed in preventing the probation officer Buckner from leaving. With their delivery van they push him into a pond at the wheel of his old Volvo 140 . Buckner is injured and is able to escape from the sunken car and ends up in the enclosure of the tigers in the private zoo who are chasing him. Nevertheless, he can escape here too and holds Patrick hostage when Barker and McCoy appear in Schmidt's house. After a brief fight, Karen is able to incapacitate Buckner.

The police have now put Karen and Barker on a manhunt. Again disguised with wigs and sunglasses, they arrive at the airport with Patrick to take off for Rio de Janeiro . But on the way to the toilet in the airport building, Karen is intercepted by Patrick's father. He had learned about the bank robbery and the search for a woman through the television news. He uses a pistol to force her to the toilet; in fact, Karen is carrying a travel bag filled with bundles of dollars. At the last moment, Barker arrives and knocks Patrick's father out. Patrick now learns that Karen is his mother.

As the plane rolls onto the runway, Karen and Barker toast with champagne in first class. But through the window they see a police car approaching. A staircase is rolled up to the machine, two police officers enter it. But they did not come to arrest the two bank robbers, but to hand in a container for organ transport. In the final scene the machine is approaching Rio.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that he wasn't sure if the film was a thriller, a drama, or a comedy. The plot is unrealistic and has numerous clichés .

Roger Ebert criticized the "dim-witted" script in the Chicago Sun-Times of September 10, 1993. He only praised the presence of Kim Basinger.

background

The film was shot in Atlanta , Georgia .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Davies , Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert