Meh 'money

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Movie
German title Meh 'money
Original title Mo 'Money
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Peter MacDonald
script Damon Wayans
production Michael I. Rachmil
music Jay Gruska
camera Don Burgess
cut Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
occupation

Mo 'Money ( Mo' Money ) is a US action - comedy from the year 1992 . The film is also known as Mo 'Money - Meh' Money .

action

Ted Forest, a messenger from the Dynasty Club Corporation , was killed on the street and the data tape he was carrying was exchanged. The Lt. Raymond Walsh quickly realizes that it was a robbery. He also has to look after the children of his ex-partner who has been killed, because Johnny and Seymour Stewart are two petty crooks who keep themselves afloat with all kinds of trickery. When Johnny is arrested by the police while on the run, he is released despite the violation of the probation requirements. He also wants to use Walsh's advice to finally earn a living with honest work. But selling street books is more difficult than expected. However, he gets to know the beautiful Amber, courted her and followed her to her company, the credit card company Dynasty Club . He sees a job offer on the notice board and applies with a fictional biography to be closer to Amber. After a few days he got the job in the post office and met both his boss Chris Fields and the head of security Keith Heading. They try to steal more than 30 million US dollars from the deceased with the help of returned credit cards within the next 26 days .

But Johnny doesn't know anything about it, who tries to get closer to Amber. Although he has to cope with the fact that she is in a relationship with the arrogant Tom Dilton, he tries to impress her and ridicule Tommy. As a result, she separates from Tom. But Johnny himself can't afford anything, so he steals a credit card for work, buys an expensive ring and new clothes. After Chris was questioned and nervous by Walsh, Heading had him ambushed and stabbed on the subway platform. As Heading Johnny also filmed stealing the credit card he had smuggled in, he blackmailed him into working for him. Now Johnny has to buy expensive luxury items with the credit cards of the deceased. At least he can enjoy the time with Amber, who quickly wonders where he got so much money from. Finally, however, he informs Heading that he would like to get out.

Thereupon Seymour is arrested because he wanted to buy something with Johnny's credit card, which was stolen and now blocked by Heading. He is interrogated and confesses that Keith Heading was behind it. As a result, he is set as a decoy on heading, but Seymour quickly sees through and takes him hostage. He and two people go to the office, where Amber and Johnny are already looking for evidence of the credit card fraud. A fight ensues in which Keith's men die and Keith himself escapes with Seymour as a hostage. Johnny follows him to a salt store. Since Seymour was able to escape on the way, both fight each other there alone. Keith shoots Johnny and empty his gun. In the fistfight that follows, both end up on a moving conveyor belt, where Johnny manages to put a power cord around Keith's neck. When they both fall at the end of the tape, Keith hangs himself.

Reviews

In the New York Times , Janet Maslin wrote that Wayans appears “like he's picking up where Eddie Murphy left off.” He also makes an avid use of all of the film's “weird stereotypical characters”. She praised both Wayans overall and said that the relatively good script needed a more peppy direction.

Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times said the film had a "promising start" and that the "chemistry between the Wayans brothers" was just right. But all in all, the film is "not very funny" and "lackluster."

For Hal Hinson of the Washington Post , the film failed because of its claims to be action film, romance and comedy at the same time. This is mainly due to the director, who just doesn't manage to deal with these three elements. He also saw the only comedy in the film when Wayans wasn't doing something.

For the lexicon of international film , the film was an "indigestible, half-hearted mixture of love story, comedy and unnecessarily brutal action thriller."

Awards

Michael Lamone Bivins, Ronald De Voe, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis won in 1993 for the song The Best Things in Life Are Free the Film and Television Music Award of the American Society of Composers .

backgrounds

The film opened in US cinemas on July 24, 1992 and was able to bring in just over 40 million US dollars again. It started in Germany on November 12, 1992 and was seen by 482,715 cinema-goers. The film has been available as a German-language VHS since June 8, 1993 and as a German-language DVD since July 9, 2002 .

A version shortened by six minutes and released for ages 12 and up was often shown on television.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Maslin : Mo 'Money (1992) on nytimes.com, July 25, 1992, accessed May 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Michael Wilmington: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Mo' Money 'Overdoses on Blood, Guts on latimes.com of July 27, 1992 (English), accessed on May 28, 2012
  3. ↑ Hal Hinson: 'Mo' Money '(R) on washingtonpost.com, July 25, 1992, accessed May 28, 2012
  4. ↑ Meh 'money. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Mo 'Money (1992) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed May 28, 2012
  6. ↑ Top 100 Germany 1992 on insidekino.de , accessed on May 28, 2012