Vengeance - retaliation has a price

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Movie
German title Vengeance - retaliation has a price
Original title Already Dead
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joe Otting
script David Alford
Joe Chappelle
Robert Archer Lynn
production Christopher Eberts
Colleen handles
Kia Jam
music Nathan Furst
camera Eric Trageser
cut Adam Sobocienski
occupation

Revenge - Retribution has its price (original title Already Dead ) is an American thriller from 2007. It is the story of a man who wants to take revenge for the murder of his son.

action

Thomas Archer is a successful architect, happy husband and father. In a barbaric attack, his wife is raped and his son and his babysitter are killed.

Thomas is desperate and demands revenge on the person who destroyed his family. His psychiatrist Dr. Heller establishes contact with a secret organization that offers to hand over the perpetrator to him. As a condition he is given the payment of half a million US dollars and an agreement to kill the man without speaking to him and not to ask any further questions. He agrees to these terms and conditions and receives a cell phone in the mail with instructions on when and where he can find the man he is looking for. Thomas follows these instructions and finds his victim tied to a chair in a disused factory hall.

In a rage, Thomas beats the man who is bound and drives a nail through his left hand. When he also tries to pierce his right hand, he discovers to his horror that the man's right forearm is missing a tattoo that he saw during the attack on his family.

Thereupon he doubts that the real culprit is actually sitting across from him. He therefore calls over the phone to have his psychiatrist sent to him. This requirement is met, but Dr. Thomas can't convince any more that the man is the one he is looking for. Instead, Thomas cuts the bound man loose and joins him and Dr. Brighter in the room on the factory floor. The psychiatrist continues to advise Thomas to kill the alleged perpetrator, otherwise the unknown men will kill him to protect the secret organization and their identities. According to Heller's testimony, the men are both current and former police officers who want to top up their wages and at the same time ensure a safer city. He was therefore not helped by hoping for the help of the police in this case.

Despite the hopeless situation, Thomas and the nameless man flee through the factory halls of the spacious building complex. Again and again there are firefights in which some of the masked men are killed and the nameless one is shot. Both manage to leave the factory hall so that they meet the mastermind behind the plot in the yard. It finally turns out to be Dr. Brighter than the leader of the organization who is shot and dies.

While the nameless man drives away in the car of the secret organization, Thomas takes his sports bag with his cash and walks home to his wife. Thomas returns home and has found his peace.

In the final scene you see a tattooed man (the perpetrator) tied up and gagged in a trunk. The nameless man leans over him, shows him the picture of the killed boy and asks him if he knows what he did to the boy's family and thus almost did to his family. The nameless man finally shoots the tattooed man.

background

The film was shot from November 27, 2006 to December 23, 2006 in Los Angeles . It was released directly on DVD in Argentina on December 11, 2007, in the United States on January 15, 2008 and subsequently in several other countries. The budget of the film is about 2.5 million US dollars estimated.

criticism

The editorial staff of Cinema judged the film to be “uninspired, violent and simple-minded: No wonder that German and US theatrical distributors waved off this.” The “mix of“ Ein Mann sucht Rot ”,“ Hostel ”and“ Saw ”” is one "Nailed-up thriller with a mindless plot".

Andreas R. Becker from Filmstarts is of the opinion that the film creates “an initial tension”, but in the further course “instead of action […] boredom is usually the order of the day”, because “avenging tends to be more economical”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Film review , Cinema
  5. ^ Film criticism , film starts , Andreas R. Becker