According to their own rules

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title According to their own rules
Original title Mulholland Falls
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Lee Tamahori
script Pete Dexter
production Mario Iscovich ,
Lili Fini Zanuck ,
Richard D. Zanuck
music Dave Grusin
camera Haskell Wexler
cut Sally Menke
occupation

According to its own rules (alternative title: Mulholland Falls - According to its own rules , original title: Mulholland Falls ) is an American thriller from 1996 . Directed by Lee Tamahori and written by Pete Dexter .

action

The action takes place in the USA in the 1950s. Max Hoover heads a four-man special unit in the Los Angeles Police Department . At the beginning of the film, the unit arrests a gangster from Chicago. The man is thrown off a cliff that police officers call Mulholland Falls . Then, when he lies injured under the cliff, they advise him to leave the city.

The body of a young woman is found in the desert. She is identified as the actress Allison Pond. A little later, Hoover, who had an affair with Pond, was sent a film showing Pond having sex with General Thomas Timms, the administrator of the Nevada Test Site , where nuclear tests are carried out. The film was shot through a semi-transparent mirror by Jimmy Fields, a homosexual friend of the murdered people. Other parts of the film show Pond with friends and a military base.

Fields will be placed under guard. However, he is murdered before he can make any further statements. A radioactive piece of glass is found on the murdered woman, which encourages investigators to suspect a connection with the Nevada Test Site . They break into the Nevada Test Site, where they are arrested by Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald, who is responsible for the security of the site. On the general's orders, Hoover is brought to Timms' house, where Timms reveals his belief that sometimes people have to be sacrificed for other people.

The FBI sends agent McCafferty, who emphasizes to Hoover how important it is for the FBI boss that Timms be spared embarrassment. McCafferty and his people later search Hoover's house for the incriminated film. Hoover then beat up McCafferty and his people in the underground parking lot of the FBI office building. He pulls McCafferty into the street and makes it clear to him that he can do whatever he wants in Los Angeles.

Katherine Hoover, Max's wife, gets an anonymous broadcast with a movie showing her husband having sex with Pond. She sees the film and pushes for a breakup. Hoover and Colonel Fitzgerald arrange a meeting at which the film with the general is to be exchanged for the original of the film with Hoover. Hoover is brought to the Nevada Test Site by plane with Coolidge with him. There, Hoover discovers a hospital with irradiated soldiers. He remembers that the film with the general shows the building and one of the sick people.

On the return flight in a military plane, Hoover realizes that the actress was thrown from an airplane by Colonel Fitzgerald to protect the secret of the irradiated soldiers. When Fitzgerald, who was flying along on a pretext, and a second officer want to throw the two investigators off the plane, a fight ensues in which the police officers get the upper hand and the murderers themselves get out of the plane. The pilot is accidentally shot, but can still make an emergency landing. On the floor it turns out that Coolidge was also shot; he dies a short time later.

The film ends with the solemn funeral of Coolidge, the self-dissolution of the investigative crew and the realization of the main character Max Hoover about the effects on his wife of the committed adultery.

Reviews

James Berardinelli criticized the weaknesses of the plot on ReelViews ("the plot ... is shaky"). The visual effect and the actors are “great”, but the plot is “winding”, “contrived” and has a “disappointing” outcome. The direction is "inconsistent".

The lexicon of international films wrote: "A detective film which is clearly based on Roman Polanski's classic" Chinatown "(1974), but which owes everything to its subject except brutality and good performance."

Awards

Melanie Griffith received the Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actress in 1997 .

backgrounds

The shooting took place in Los Angeles in Malibu ( California ), in Desert Hot Springs (California) and Wendover ( Utah instead). The film grossed about 11.5 million in the cinemas of the United States dollar one.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for According to your own rules . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2007 (PDF; test number: 76 029-a DVD).
  2. ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli
  3. ↑ According to their own rules. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used