Odd Thomas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Odd Thomas |
| Original title | Odd Thomas |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephen Sommers |
| script | Stephen Sommers |
| production |
John Baldecchi , Howard Kaplan , Stephen Sommers |
| music | John Swihart |
| camera | Mitchell Amundsen |
| cut | David Checel |
| occupation | |
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Odd Thomas is a 2013 mystery thriller starring Anton Yelchin in the title role and Stephen Sommers as director and screenwriter. The source of literature was Dean Koontz 's novel of the same name.
action
Twenty-year-old Odd Thomas has an extraordinary gift: he can see ghosts. Sometimes the victims of unpunished murders appear to him and ask him to retaliate for what happened. But the Bodachs, as he calls them, really frighten him. These are gray, multi-legged, extremely agile and terrifying creatures for whom walls and floors are no impenetrable obstacle. Nobody but Odd can see them. Their appearance heralds a crime in the near future. The multitude of creatures suggests Odd that this time around it will be a crime on a large scale. He immediately begins research. A vision tells him that the eccentric and unkempt outsider Robert Robertson will be a key figure in the impending disaster. While searching his house, Odd finds a clue that the crime will take place the very next day.
He briefs the town's sheriff, as he always does when he has clues about a criminal or an impending crime. This now relies on Odds warnings and is strengthening the security precautions in public places in the city. Then the massacre begins. A hooded man shoots several visitors to the local shopping center with an automatic firearm. Odd can get a truckload of explosives out of the underground car park before it explodes. One of the perpetrators, the police officer Varner, is killed. He and his colleague Bern Eckles were devil worshipers and had enjoyed killing since they were teenagers. They planned the mass murder in the mall together with the teacher Kevin Goss and the aforementioned nerd Bob Robertson.
The sheriff survived a gunshot wound after an emergency operation. Odd's girlfriend Stormy, on the other hand, dies in the hail of bullets in the mall, which Odd only realizes a few days later, so that he leaves town at the end of the film.
background
The thriller was shot in the US state of New Mexico on an estimated budget of $ 27 million . The church on whose tower Odd and Stormy want to picnic is St. Anthony's Church in Pecos , a small community near Santa Fe . The abandoned prison, in the gas chamber of which the hero of the title hides a corpse, is located 15 km south of Santa Fe. It gained notoriety in 1980 through the largest prisoner revolt of modern times in the USA and was closed in 1998.
The term Bodach , which the title hero chooses for the ominous creatures, comes from Gaelic mythology, where it stands for a mythical creature or a terrifying figure / ghost.
criticism
“The ghost detective story based on a novel by the American writer Dean Koontz is a fine mixture of supernatural adventure and crime thriller. Director and screenwriter Sommers tells of the self-discovery of a quirky hero over long stretches with great ease and with a lot of humor, but lacks the necessary depth in the second half and ultimately relies more on old action habits. "
"Well tricked effect spectacle by Stephen Sommers."
Web links
- Odd Thomas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Odd Thomas in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Odd Thomas . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 834 V).
- ↑ Penitentiary Blues: The Santa Fe Prison Riot. November 28, 2009. In: City of Dust. From CityOfDust.Blogspot.com, accessed January 13, 2019.
- ↑ 1980 Prison Riot at the "Old Main". In: New Mexico Corrections Department - Office of Public Affairs. From cd.NM.gov, accessed January 13, 2019.
- ↑ Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Cinema.de , accessed on October 22, 2015