Killer elite

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Movie
German title Killer elite
Original title Killer elite
Country of production UK , Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Gary McKendry
script Gary McKendry ,
Matt Sherring ,
Ranulph Fiennes (book)
production Michael Boughen ,
Steve Chasman ,
Sigurjon Sighvatsson ,
Tony Winley
music Reinhold Heil ,
Johnny Klimek
camera Simon Duggan ,
Alain Duplantier
cut John Gilbert
occupation
synchronization

Killer Elite is a British - Australian action thriller from director Gary McKendry from the year 2011 . The film is based on the biographical novel The Feather Men from 1991 by the adventurer, researcher and former soldier of the British Special Air Service (SAS) Sir Ranulph Fiennes . Jason Statham , Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Clive Owen star in the lead roles .

action

Mexico in 1979: assassins attacked a vehicle in the city of La Joyita . The hit man Danny Bryce shoots the male target in the back, but pauses when he recognizes a child next to her and is therefore shot himself. After this dramatic experience, Bryce decides to give up his bloody job for good.

A year later: Bryce, who now lives in the Australian Yarra Valley, receives a photo that shows his friend and mentor Hunter being held hostage by the Omani Sheikh Amr. Two days later, Bryce flies to Oman to rescue Hunter from the terminally ill sheikh. He makes it a condition that he should finish Hunter's abandoned job to kill three former SAS members. The sheikh, living in exile, wants to return to his desert home with his last remaining son and, before his death, take revenge for his three other sons, who were killed by soldiers of the SAS in the Oman War. The murder of the SAS soldiers should look like an accidental death so that no conclusions can be drawn about the client. As a reward, he is promised 6 million US dollars and the release of Hunters. A violent attempt to free Hunter fails and Bryce inevitably accepts the job.

Once in Great Britain, Bryce gets his former "colleagues" Davies and Meier to help out for a share of the money. The three do not know, however, that the secret society "The Feather Men" to protect former SAS members got wind of the order. They put their best man and executor, Spike Logan, on the matter.

Meanwhile, the contract killers go to work; the first victim is said to be hit in the neck in the bathroom of his apartment with a hammer , which is cleverly coated with a replica of the bathroom tiles, in order to simulate an accident. During the recording of the evidence video, the ex-SAS said that it was not he but another soldier who shot the victim. He is writing a book about the operations of the SAS, which Bryce does not believe him. In a physical dispute, however, he is killed by Meier. The second victim is weakened during a winter exercise by the SAS with an overdose of insulin , which Bryce pours into his coffee during a break in combat, and dies of hypothermia in the snowstorm. The third victim rams a rigged truck and dies.

However, it turns out that Danny's first victim was actually the wrong one. The actual target person should be the mentioned author of the book, which has just been published: Ranulph Fiennes , after whose real book this film was made. The sheikh's son presented the book to him, and the title was changed in the film. So it happens that he flies to London again and wants to finish the job. However, he recognizes the small child from 1979 in the man's eyes, which is why he does not kill him, only injures him. Danny takes several photos of the man lying unconscious on the floor, which are supposed to give his client, the sheikh, the impression that he has carried out the job. It also comes to light that Danny's mandate is endorsed by the British government, which is hoping for preferential treatment in reallocating oil rights after the sheikh's death .

At the end of the film, Danny and Hunter travel to Oman again to give the sheikh the photos of the allegedly murdered man. However, they get ahead of Spike Logan, who informs the sheikh that the man in the picture is not dead at all and then murders the sheikh. His son is an eyewitness, but lets him get away because he's tired of the whole thing. After taking revenge for the murder of his brothers, he never intended to return to the desert from exile. He even gives Spike the six million dollar reward originally intended for Danny.

Spike is caught in the desert by Danny and Hunter, but they let him get away with most of the money alive and declare their war over. In the final scene, Danny meets his lover Anne Fraiser, who appeared in several flashbacks and was waiting for him in Paris . He asks where it should go. She then gets into his car and the two drive off.

background

Director Gary McKendry at the premiere for the film in Toronto

Filming began on May 10, 2010 and took place in Australia , the United Kingdom , the United Arab Emirates , Morocco and Jordan . The budget amounted to an estimated 35 million US dollars .

The film is being distributed by Open Road Films as well as by Concorde Filmverleih GmbH in Germany. The film premiered on September 10, 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film was shown in cinemas in Israel , South Korea , Kuwait , Portugal and Ukraine on September 22, 2011 . The following day the film had its cinema premiere in cinemas in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Turkey . The film was released in German-speaking cinemas on October 27, 2011. On March 15, 2012, Concorde Video released the film in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-16 approval.

According to information in the credits , the film is based on the biographical novel The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes from 1991. According to the credits, this non-fiction book was controversially discussed and officially denied. Citing England's Official Secrets Act, the full extent of SAS involvement in the Dhofar War remains under lock and key .

Spike quotes on the phone the saying "that you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't after you anyway," which is attributed to Joseph Heller and Henry Kissinger , among others .

synchronization

Killer Elite was dubbed by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH . Benedikt Rabanus wrote the dialogue book and Cornelius Frommann directed the dialogue .

role actor German dubbing voice
Danny Bryce Jason Statham Leon Boden
Hunter Robert De Niro Christian Brückner
Spike Logan Clive Owen Tom Vogt
Anne Yvonne Strahovski Sonja Spuhl
Davies Dominic Purcell Oliver Siebeck
Meier Aden Young Ole Pfennig
agent Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Thomas Albus
Harris Lachy Hulme Dietmar miracle
Colonel Fitz Bille Brown Uli Krohm
Commander B Nick Tate Lothar Blumhagen

Reviews

“It's not just the action that Killer Elite uses to create its thrill. The scenes in which the men are planning and preparing their murders also create intense tension - thanks to the clever script. The performance of the actors turned out to be flawless like the staging. The fact that top-class names such as Clive Owen ( Inside Man ) and Robert De Niro ( Without Limit ) stand by Jason Statham's side didn't hurt his performance. On the contrary. It was never as good as it is today. "

- cinema.de

“The story of the espionage thriller Killer Elite is the kind that the screenwriter would have thought of as exaggerated and unbelievable if it hadn't actually happened that way. […] The director newcomer, Oscar-nominated for his short film Everything in This Country Must, weaves the opaque political entanglements into his atmospherically dense work so harmoniously that one does not even get the idea while watching to seriously question absurd espionage - even if unnecessarily numerous supporting characters and some drawn out dialogue slow down the action film here and there. "

- filmstarts.de

“ Killer Elite is not exciting for the entire duration, but you never get bored during this very entertaining film. The action scenes are old school and a joy for the fans. A reduction in the characters and the deletion of a subplot would have done the tension good, but otherwise this is great, slightly demanding entertainment for fans of action films from the 1970s and 1980s. "

- OutNow.ch

"A thriller staged as a reminiscence of classic action cinema, the (genre) story of which is not very original, but which unfolds quite a bit of charm as a body and movement cinema."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The Australian Screen Sound Guild honored the film in the Feature Film Soundtrack of the Year category and in the Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing category. He also received nominations in the categories Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Design and Best Achievement in Sound for a Feature Film - Location Sound Recording . Furthermore, in 2012 several stunt people involved in the film were nominated for a Taurus Award in the categories Best Fight , Hardest Hit and Best High Work . The film was nominated by the Australian Film Institute in 2013 in the Best Production Design category and for the AACTA Award for Best Visual Effects .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Killer Elite . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 704 V).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Killer Elite . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations , accessed August 10, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results , accessed on August 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Background information , accessed August 10, 2014
  6. ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Launch dates , accessed on August 10, 2014
  7. ↑ Killer Elite. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 8, 2011 .
  8. ↑ cinema , accessed November 7, 2011
  9. ↑ FILMSTARTS.de , accessed on November 7, 2011
  10. ↑ OutNow.CH , accessed November 7, 2011
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