Killing season

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Movie
German title Killing season
Original title Killing season
Country of production Belgium
original language English ,
Serbian
Publishing year 2013
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mark Steven Johnson
script Evan Daugherty
production Paul Breuls ,
Ed Cathell III ,
Anthony Rhulen ,
John Thompson
music Christopher Young
camera Peter Menzies Jr.
cut Sean Albertson
occupation

Killing Season is a Belgian film drama by Mark Steven Johnson from the year 2013 with Robert De Niro and John Travolta in the lead roles .

action

Benjamin Ford was a US officer on a NATO mission in the Bosnian war . There his unit arrested members of a Serbian special force who had committed war crimes. When the Serbs were not punished but were released a few days later, Ford and his comrades executed the Serbs . 18 years later, Ford lives as a hermit in the American wilderness. One day Emil Kovac shows up there. He was a member of the special unit and was the only one who survived the execution seriously injured. Now he wants revenge on Ford. A grueling hunt begins, in the course of which the role of the hunter and the hunted changes several times. In the end, both men realized that each other's death would not free them from the guilt they had inflicted on themselves for their deeds during the war, and they parted ways.

background

At the realization of Killing Season were film production companies involved in film and Promised Land Productions Millennium Films, Corsan, Nu Image.

The title Shrapnel was initially planned for the film . It was referring to the shrapnel in Ford's leg. Instead of Robert de Niro, Nicolas Cage was intended for his role. Director John McTiernan was replaced by Mark Steven Johnson as McTiernan was serving a prison sentence.

The film was released in theaters in the USA on July 12, 2013. In Germany , Killing Season was released on November 29, 2013 directly on Blu-Ray and DVD .

reception

The film received mostly negative ratings. On the Web site Rotten Tomatoes , the film reached with only 10 percent of the reviewers a positive rating.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb Company Credits Killing Season . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  2. ↑ www.filmstarts.de
  3. ↑ IMDb Release Info Killing Season . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Killing Season at Rotten Tomatoes (English). Retrieved December 6, 2013.