Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival

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Movie
German title Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival
Original title The Last Boy Scout
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length FSK 16: 96 minutes
FSK 18: 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Tony Scott
script Shane Black ,
Greg Hicks
production Michael Levy ,
Joel Silver
music Michael Kamen
camera Ward Russell
cut Stuart Baird ,
Mark Goldblatt ,
Mark Helfrich
occupation

The Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival (Original title: The Last Boy Scout ) is an action - thriller from the year 1991 by director Tony Scott . Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans played the main roles .

action

The film begins with an away game by the Los Angeles Stallions football team in Cleveland . This ends in a scandal when Billy Cole, the running back of the Stallions, pulls a pistol while running into the end zone and shoots at the opposing players who stand in his way. When security guards rush to him, he kills himself with a shot in the head. During the break, someone on the phone threatened him with death if he didn't score points for his team with a few touchdowns in the game .

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, former Secret Service agent Joe Hallenbeck, a professional and personal loser, wakes up in his car after a night of partying. Since he was fired, he has been a private detective. His daughter Darian hates him, his wife Sarah cheats on him with his best friend Mike. He catches them both red-handed . Immediately after Joe Mike has therefore terminated the friendship, Mike is surprisingly killed by a car bomb.

His current assignment, which Joe got from Mike, is to protect the stripper Cory, who feels harassed. He looks for Cory in the bar where she works and accepts her assignment. He clashes with her boyfriend, ex-Stallions player Jimmy Dix, who has been retired due to injuries, illegal gambling and drug offenses. When Joe leaves the bar, he is knocked down by strangers and can therefore not protect Cory when she is shot in the street. When Joe and Jimmy arrive at the scene, they still manage to kill the attackers, but for Cory any help comes too late.

Inevitably, the two dissimilar men now come together to clarify the background to the crime. In Cory's devastated apartment, they both get to the bottom of things: Cory had blackmailed Shelly Marcone, the criminal owner of the Stallions, so that her friend Jimmy could play for Marcone's team again. In addition, Senator Calvin Baynard also appears to be involved. Joe worked for him in his time as an agent, and the Senator is also responsible for Joe's release two years ago, which is why they have both been enemies since then.

In the course of the investigation, Joe and Jimmy repeatedly clash with Marcones contract killers, who are led by Marcones chief killer Milo. Milo manages to kidnap Joe on Marcone's behalf in order to make him a scapegoat. Marcone, who is also responsible for Billy Cole's death, plans to make the ailing football league more interesting again by legalizing gambling and sports betting. He wants to achieve this by bribing influential politicians. Only Baynard has so far resisted him and demands high bribes. Instead of paying, Marcone now wants to have him killed. Cory wanted to use the knowledge of this happening to force Marcone to reinstate Jimmy.

Marcone lets Joe act as a straw man in a bogus bribe handover to Baynard. The actual money case is secretly exchanged for a duplicate filled with C4 explosives , which Baynard - who is present as a VIP guest at a Stallions game - is supposed to kill. Joe, who is supposed to be portrayed as Baynard's murderer due to his previous history, is also said to be killed, but can escape the ambush with the help of his daughter Darian and Jimmy. In a subsequent chase, Joe and Jimmy not only get the money, but also intercept the bomb that was transported to Baynard.

Marcone then plays his last trump card; he kidnaps Darian and forces Joe and Jimmy to bring the money to him at the stadium. The senator is now supposed to kill Milo, who is lurking in the arena with a sniper rifle . Joe and Jimmy can also escape this predicament, and they also free Darian. While Jimmy Baynard saves from the assassin, Joe can track down Milo in the floodlights and finally kill him.

Marcone was able to get away at first, but while escaping he accidentally grabbed the suitcase with the bomb, which exploded a short time later when it was opened in his house; and Baynard, too, is finished with his criminal acts. In the end, Joe is reconciled with his wife and daughter; and Joe and Jimmy decide to work together as detectives from now on.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 13, 1991 that he was certain the film could be a financial success. The producer Joel Silver would have made violence against women the "key element" of his films, in this film the violence against children would be added. The two main characters would hate their partners - who would cheat on them. The film is "glossy", "skillful", "cynical" and "self-enamored".

“An unbeatable team of actors, cool slogans, lots of action and explosions, in short: fun and exciting entertainment at its best from action specialist Tony Scott (“ The Public Enemy No. 1 ”), who is not exactly careful with depictions of violence. Oscar winner Halle Berry can be seen in one of their very early roles. "

- prism

"Mixture of action thriller and buddy film , excitingly staged with surprising twists, but unnecessarily rude in tone and ideologically questionable in the excessive scenes of violence."

- Lexicon of international film

“The blockbuster duo Bruce Willis and Joel Silver hit the bull's eye again after Die Hard I & II and Hudson Hawk : With a veritable cannonade of flippant sayings, wild chases and non-stop explosions, they take the audience's breath away. Willis, brilliantly supported by colored stand-up comedian Damon Wayans (Mo 'Money) , has never been better. Staged furiously by Tony Scott (Top Gun) , the loud surface stimuli predominate. In the background, however, the hopeless image of a country torn apart by drugs and corruption creates additional baggage. The million-dollar hit in the cinema will be a 100% rental blockbuster on video and can confidently make it to number 1 in the charts. "

- kino.de

“Three genre aces - Willis, Scott and the top author Shane Black […] - set off an action rocket with wild banter and cool, funny slogans. Conclusion: A classic of modern action cinema. "

- Cinema

background

  • The opening credits of the film with the actors and production details were modeled on a TV football broadcast. A music video was built into it, in which singer Bill Medley has a guest appearance.
  • The Gage by Bruce Willis was US $ 12 million, for the screenplay, the producers paid more than 1 million US dollars.
  • In the film, the enmity between Hallenbeck and Baynard is described by the fact that Joe, in his role as Secret Service agent, surprises the Senator with exaggerated sadomasochistic sex practices with a woman and knocks him down. Thereupon Hallenbeck is fired. An earlier, unrealized, draft script stipulated that Baynard's son Louis, drunk, ran over a mother with her child. Joe defied orders to keep it quiet and was fired. In addition, Baynard and son were to die in the end.
  • The film received an FSK -18 rating in Germany due to the violence it portrayed and was indexed since October 30, 1993 . An FSK-16 version with a length of 96 minutes was produced for further marketing in the cinema, on video and for broadcasting on television. Some of the versions shown on German television are even shorter. However, several scenes that are important for understanding the plot have been removed. Indexing was lifted in October 2018. A re-examination by the FSK in August 2020 resulted in an age rating from 18 years for the uncut version.
  • The quote “So pull the trigger. Go ahead. What are you waiting for? But don't be surprised if you wake up next morning next to a horse's head. ”Alludes to a well-known scene from The Godfather , in which a film producer is intimidated and blackmailed by such an act. Hallenbeck recently said that if Marcone died, the evidence against Marcone would go straight to the Mafia.

Soundtrack

Awards

For the MTV Movie Awards 1992, the duo Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis in the category Best Film Duo (Best On-Screen Duo) nominated the film also received a nomination for Best Action Scene (Best Action Sequence).

literature

  • Annette Kilzer (editor): Bruce Willis . Dieter Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-929470-70-5 , pp. 173-175, pp. 270f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  2. ↑ Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival on prisma.de
  3. ↑ Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival on kino.de
  5. ↑ Last Boy Scout - The goal is survival on cinema.de
  6. ↑ a b Trivia
  7. ↑ Last Boy Scout has been removed from the index
  8. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7873
  9. ^ The Last Boy Scout Awards