Reasonable Doubt (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Reasonable doubt |
| Original title | Reasonable doubt |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter P. Croudins |
| script | Peter A. Dowling |
| production |
Frank Buchs , Fredrik Malmberg , Silvio Muraglia , Dave Valleau , Daniel Wagner |
| music | James Jandrisch |
| camera | Brian Pearson |
| cut | Richard Schwadel |
| occupation | |
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Reasonable Doubt ( English for "justified doubts"; alternative title: On the wrong track ) is a Canadian thriller , which was staged by the British film director Peter Howitt (under the pseudonym Peter P. Croudins) based on a script by Peter A. Dowling . Dominic Cooper , Samuel L. Jackson , Erin Karpluk , Gloria Reuben and Ryan Robbins play the leading roles.
action
Chicago : District Attorney Mitch Brockden is fine. He is married and lives in a handsome middle class house. His wife has just given birth and his career is on the right track. In his pleadings, Brockden is adamant about offenders and prides himself on not having lost any cases. Above all, Brockden is proud to have worked his way out of the poor district of Riverdale in South Chicago. He denies his former drug addict half-brother Jimmy Logan - he has neither told his wife about his existence, nor did he mention him when he applied for the prosecution.
After a drinking spree with colleagues, he initially plans to take a taxi home, but then gets into his car because he has noticed that dodgy characters want to mess with it. When a police car with a siren makes itself felt behind him, he becomes nervous and abruptly drives into a side street. While he looks back and watches that the police are driving straight ahead, his car hits a man who is seriously injured and lies behind his car. Brockden first wants to call for help on his cell phone, but sees the picture of the woman and child and, out of a sense of guilt, gets scared because he was drunk. So he anonymously calls the police from a phone booth to send help. Although the seriously injured man begs him not to leave him alone, Brockden leaves the scene of the accident out of cowardice. Before that, he accidentally spilled a pile of business cards on the man. He hastily gathers up the business cards and then drives home, where he washes the car and throws away his clothes.
The next morning he found out that the police had found the body of the man who had run into him in a workman's pickup truck. The handyman, Clinton Davis, is a medieval African American whose family was murdered some time ago. Detective Blake Kanon tells Brockden that the fatal injuries could be from Davis and that he may be linked to other unsolved murders. Brockden is on the one hand too cowardly to admit his hit-and-run, on the other hand he is shocked that an innocent man could be convicted with Davis. He decides to take the charges and deliberately lose the case. His litigation is erratic and Davis wins the jury's sympathy. The tape with Brockden's call is played and the voice is assigned to Brockden's half-brother Jimmy. The court is convinced that Davis picked up the man to take him to the hospital and that the injuries were caused by the car accident. Outside the courthouse, Brockden congratulates Davis on his acquittal. During the conversation, Brockden gets the impression that Davis knows more than he admits.
Out of sheer curiosity, Brockden takes another look at the location of the accident. He remembers the night of the event, the pleading of the injured person not to leave him alone and his feeling that he was being watched from a side street when he heard a noise. He examines the back alley and discovers, because of two smoking habits, that Clinton must have been there to his horror. Based on this evidence, he now realizes that Davis apparently tortured the accident victim - a convicted child molester - and that Davis fled in a panic and Brockden ran in front of the car. After Brockden's hit and run, Davis managed to kill the man.
Brockden also begins investigating the other unsolved murders. Davis breaks into his garage and contacts him. He openly admits to being the murderer. But he doesn't see any risk of being caught. On the one hand, he feels protected by the criminal charges , on the other hand he still has incriminating evidence against Brockden: Brockden's blood-smeared business card, which Brockden overlooked at the crime scene. He asks Brockden to leave him alone or to have him blown and kill his family.
When Brockden investigates anyway, he realizes that Davis finds his victims in support groups for ex-offenders who have been released on parole. He murders those who Davis believes will relapse.
Brockden meets with his half-brother Jimmy, through which the viewer suspects that Jimmy was privy to it and has therefore known himself as the anonymous caller. When Jimmy shadows Davis while Brockden breaks into Brockden's house to look for evidence, the two of them make a phone call and Jimmy describes his nearby location. Brockden overhears Jimmy being knocked down and kidnapped by Davis. While Brockden tries to help his half-brother, Davis beats him into a coma and calls the police himself. Before that, he placed tools from Brockden's garage at the scene of the crime so that the police believe Brockden arrested there for the perpetrator. He admits his hit-and-run and overwhelms a police officer after Davis receives a fake phone call threatening his family. He escapes from custody and rushes home, where Davis is trying to murder Brockden's wife. Here it comes to the showdown: Davis confesses to the murders and says that he once lost his family to a criminal and is now waging a campaign of revenge. Detective Kanon shoots him when he is about to kill Brockden's wife.
In the final scene, Jimmy and the Brockden couple can be seen in front of their house. Both men have largely recovered from their injuries, and Brockden introduces Jimmy as his brother.
background
Production of the film began on November 19, 2012. The shooting took place in Winnipeg , Canada, among other places . Some scenes were also shot in Chicago . The shooting lasted a total of 27 days. Lionsgate released the film in the United States on January 17, 2014. The international distribution rights were held by Voltage Pictures. In Germany, Reasonable Doubt was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray on April 17, 2014 .
reception
Reasonable Doubt received mostly negative reviews. For Rotten Tomatoes , 13 percent of the eight reviews were positive, and for Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 19/100, based on 5 reviews.
Web links
- Reasonable Doubt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Reasonable Doubt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 922 V).
- ^ Samuel L. Jackson to Shoot Film in Winnipeg . In: chrisd.ca , October 18, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
- ↑ Samuel L. Jackson's New Flick 'Reasonable Doubt' Picked Up , eurweb.com. May 4, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
- ↑ Samuel L. Jackson Indie Thriller 'Reasonable Doubt' Picked Up By Lionsgate For 2013 Release , indiewire.com. January 3, 2013. Accessed July 25, 2013.
- ^ Reasonable Doubt (2014) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved March 18, 2014.