Passenger 57
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Passenger 57 |
| Original title | Passenger 57 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Hooks |
| script |
Dan Gordon , David Loughery , Stewart Raffill |
| production |
Dan Paulson , Lee Rich , Dylan Sellers , Jonathan Sheinberg |
| music | Stanley Clarke |
| camera | Mark Irwin |
| cut | Richard North |
| occupation | |
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Passenger 57 is an American action - thriller from director Kevin Hooks in 1992. The screenplay is by Dan Gordon , David Loughery and Stewart Raffill . Wesley Snipes played the main role .
action
Terrorist Charles Rane wants to have plastic surgery to change his face. When someone tries to give him painkillers, he refuses, because there will be no pain. At the same time, security guards approach the clinic to arrest him before he has a new face and is no longer recognized. Rane overpowers the surgeon before making the first cut, and kills him. Just then, the police storm the room and Rane flees, but is arrested after a car chase on foot.
Former police officer John Cutter works for the airlines in Florida as a security instructor. His friend Sly Delvecchio offers him a job as head of security for Atlantic International Airlines . Cutter flies to Los Angeles on Flight 163 to take on the new position. FBI agents take the arrested Rane to Los Angeles on the same flight .
In the Lockheed L-1011 plane , however, there are also Rane's accomplices who rescue him during the flight. The plane is hijacked; During this time, Cutter is in the toilet and can inform his friend Sly over the phone. He then overpowers one of the kidnappers and takes him hostage, but Rane also takes hostage one of the flight attendants , Marti Slayton, who happens to be one of Cutter's former trainees; she and Cutter seem to have a mutual attraction. In this hopeless situation, Cutter tries to escape; Rane shoots him, but only hits one of his accomplices. Slayton and Cutter then drain fuel, forcing the terrorists to land at a Louisiana airport . Cutter wants to jump out of the plane when it comes to a stop, but is discovered by a helper from Rane and thrown onto the runway in a short fight while the plane is coasting.
Cutter is mistaken for one of the kidnappers by the local police and arrested; only later is his identity confirmed. Rane promises to release half of the hostages in exchange for fuel. He and two of his people flee the plane, but Cutter notices this and follows them. Another accomplice, Ranes, is killed in the fight. Cutter overpowers Rane and arrests him. The terrorist threatens that one of his accomplices who remained on the plane will kill the hostages in 20 minutes if he does not get back on board. The fueled machine starts again with Rane, but Cutter follows her in a police car and jumps onto the wheel arch of the plane. Rane's remaining two accomplices, one a flight attendant, can be eliminated. During the fight with Rane he pushes him out of a torn door. Then the plane lands. Cutter and Slayton, not in the mood to face the reporters, walk arm in arm into town.
Reviews
Hal Hinson wrote in the Washington Post on November 6, 1992 that the film attempts to portray Wesley Snipes as a combination of Bruce Lee and Bruce Willis . Snipes is not a bad actor, and he doesn't play badly in this film either, but he is still the wrong cast for the role.
The lexicon of international films said: “A cliché juxtaposition of action patterns, occasionally pepped up by fashionable advertising film aesthetics; neither particularly exciting nor original. "
backgrounds
In one scene, John Cutter is reading a book called The Art of War . This is also the title of a later film with Wesley Snipes, The Art of War .
The aircraft in the film is a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar owned by the fictional Atlantic International Airlines .
A reference to the film and the main actor can be found in the opening sequence of the action film Bad Boys .
Wesley Snipes drives a red Chevrolet Corvette C4 convertible in the film.
In 2007 Doctor Who -Weihnachtsspecial Voyage of the Damned (Voyage of the Damned) raises the tenth Doctor an information robot on the spaceship Titanic before as a passenger 57th
In April 2013 the film was re-examined by the FSK and downgraded from a rating of 18 to a rating of 16 and over.
Actor Jerry Doyle , best known for his role in the science fiction series Babylon 5 , has an extra appearance as an airplane passenger.
During the credits the song is Too High by Stevie Wonder heard.
Web links
- Passenger 57 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Passenger 57 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Passenger 57 in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 , RTL 2 from 12 - FSK 18 of passenger 57 at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for passenger 57 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2013 (PDF; test number: 69 442 V).
- ^ Review by Hal Hinson
- ^ Passenger 57. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. schnittberichte.com