Parker (2013)
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| German title | Parker |
| Original title | Parker |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Taylor Hackford |
| script | John J. McLaughlin |
| production | Les Alexander |
| music | David Buckley |
| camera | James Michael Muro |
| cut | Andrew Weisblum |
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Parker is an American action film and thriller from 2012 that was released in German cinemas on February 7, 2013. It was released in the US on January 18, 2013. Directed by Taylor Hackford . The screenplay was written by John J. McLaughlin based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake . Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez play the leading roles.
action
Parker is a professional criminal who robs an amusement park with four accomplices. His girlfriend's father had put him in touch with the group. Since not everything goes according to plan and an innocent bystanders is killed by the stupidity of an accomplice, Parker wants to get out of the gang. He declines the offer to invest the loot in an even bigger raid. His partners shoot him and leave him lying on the roadside, believed to be dead, seriously injured. Parker is picked up by a peasant family passing by and survives.
After Parker has largely recovered from his injuries, his girlfriend's father informs him that one of the ex-accomplices is related to organized crime in Chicago. Parker doesn't care, he wants revenge. He assaults the ex-accomplice's brother and tortures him until he tells him that the gang has gone into hiding in Palm Beach . The mafia in Chicago puts the killer Kroll on Parker. Parker has kept his family safe and shows up on Palm Beach as a Texas millionaire allegedly looking to buy a house.
In the process he meets the frustrated broker, Leslie, who is plagued by money. Parker finds the hiding place of his ex-partners, breaks into it and deposits two weapons; He manipulates their weapons so that they are inoperable. Leslie finds out that Parker is a gangster and wants to become his partner. Parker agrees, but limits the relationship with the attractive woman only to business. When it comes to a fatal duel with the killer Kroll, the injured Parker goes into hiding with Leslie.
The gang steals a valuable jewelry collection and returns to their hiding place. Parker penetrates the hiding place and the showdown ensues. Leslie, who is also present, can shoot a gangster with one of the hidden weapons, Parker takes care of the rest; he has the advantage that the gangsters' weapons cannot be fired. Parker leaves the jewelry with Leslie and later has it picked up by a fence who moves it. He gives Leslie a fair share of the proceeds. Parker has now also murdered the gang boss in Chicago.
background
The film is based on the novel Someday Everyone Gives Up by Donald E. Westlake, who wrote 25 novels about the professional criminal Parker between 1962 and 2008 under the pseudonym Richard Stark. The character Parker is also the model for Porter, played by Mel Gibson in the thriller Payback from 1999.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book of Mark Engelhardt and under the dialogue director of Frank Schaff on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH, Berlin .
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reception
Parker has grossed $ 46,216,641 worldwide at a cost of production of approximately $ 35 million. Of this, $ 17,616,641 was earned in the US market. The film was distributed by Constantin Film in Germany and Austria and grossed around three million and 600,000 dollars respectively.
The film received mixed reviews. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , 41% of 103 reviews are positive, the average rating is 4.8 / 10. The bottom line is: "Jason Statham is ready for anything, as always, but Parker is a consistently ordinary and kinky heist movie." The film currently has a 42% rating on Metacritic based on 29 reviews. Cinema describes the “shootouts and martial arts interludes” as worth seeing, but misses “surprising twists” and, in addition to the narrative style, also criticizes the role of Jennifer Lopez, who is “once again the overwhelmed Latina”, as unimaginative. Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts, on the other hand, thinks that Parker is “exciting, rock hard and pleasantly humorless” and gives Lopez a “strong performance”. Petersen sums it up: "In times of over-the-top action blockbusters, Jason Statham's straightforwardness is just right!" The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "crime thriller based on a series of books by Donald E. Westlake alias Richard Stark, who lets a powerful, "cool" underdog compete against a network of criminals and celebrates irony-free, sometimes hard action. "
Web links
- Parker at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Parker at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Parker at Metacritic (English)
- Parker in the online film database
- Parker in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions Pro 7 from 12 - FSK 16 from Parker at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release to Parker . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2013 (PDF; test number: 136 959 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Parker . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved October 18, 2015 .
- ^ Parker (2013) - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Parker (2013) - Rotten Tomatoes. In: www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved November 4, 2015 .
- ^ Parker (2013) - Metacritic. In: www.www.metacritic.com.com. Retrieved November 4, 2015 .
- ^ Parker (2013) - Cinema. In: www.cinema.de. Retrieved November 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Parker (2013) - Film Starts. In: www.filmstarts.de. Retrieved November 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Parker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .