Maximum risk

Movie
German title	Maximum risk
Original title	Maximum risk
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1996
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ringo Lam
script	Larry Ferguson
production	Moshe diamond
music	Robert Folk
camera	Alexander Gruszynski
cut	Bill Pankow
occupation
	Jean-Claude Van Damme : Alain Moreau / Mikhail Suverov; Natasha Henstridge : Alex Minetti; Jean-Hugues Anglade : Sebastien; Zach Grenier : Ivan Dzasokhov; Paul Ben-Victor : Agent Pellman; Frank Senger : Agent Loomis; Stefanos Miltsakakis : Red Face; Frank Van Keeken : Davis Hartley; David Hemblen : Dmitri Kirov; Stéphane Audran : Chantal Moreau;

Maximum Risk is an American action film by Ringo Lam from the year 1996 .

action

Mikhail Suverov works for the Russian mafia and is murdered in southern France . The case is taken over by French police officer Alain Moreau, who discovers that the person killed was his twin brother, who grew up separated from him.

Moreau travels to New York City as Suverov , where he meets Alex Minetti, his brother's girlfriend. He fights against the Russian mafia led by Ivan Dzasokhov. He is disturbed by FBI agents.

Reviews

James Berardinelli compared the film on ReelViews with the films produced in Hong Kong . While watching, he had the impression that he had seen the film before, for which the plot, the action scenes and the presence of Jean-Claude Van Damme were responsible. Berardinelli scoffed that the scriptwriter took the idea with the twin brothers from a soap opera . He also advised that instead of this film, one of the director's films produced in Hong Kong should be seen.

Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of March 14, 1997 that the film started “furiously” but would become an “embarrassing” exercise in terms of pointlessness and predictability after four minutes. The plot is "lame", the dialogues are "unimaginative".

The magazine Cinema said: "In the end," Maximum Risk "became nothing more than a typical Van-Damme: a conventional quickie with a handful of spectacular action sequences that enrich the moderately exciting dramaturgy with the necessary visual values."

The lexicon of international films wrote: "An action film that is very visually powerful and economically staged without much effort, but its visual qualities are overshadowed by some speculative depictions of violence."

backgrounds

The film was shot in Nice , Paris , New York City and Toronto , among others . Its production amounted to an estimated 25 million US dollars . It grossed approximately $ 14.5 million in cinemas in the United States and approximately $ 51.7 million worldwide.

The film was also released as an abridged VHS cassette with an age rating of 16 and over.

In 1998, the uncut version of the film was indexed. This indexing was canceled prematurely in September 2019. A re-examination by the FSK in May 2020 resulted in an age rating from 16 years for the unabridged version.

Web links

Maximum Risk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Maximum Risk at rotten tomatoes (English)
Maximum Risk in the online film database
Maximum risk in the German dubbing index
Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 , BBFC 18 - original version , Sat 1 from 16 - FSK 18 from Maximum Risk at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

[1] Review by James Berardinelli

[2] Review by Peter Stack

[3] Cinema, accessed January 15, 2008

[4] Maximum Risk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2017 .

[5] Filming locations for Maximum Risk

[6] Business Data for Maximum Risk

[7] ttps://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15166

[8] ttps://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=7588