Recoil - Deadly Retribution
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Recoil - Deadly Retribution |
| Original title | Recoil |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kind of Camacho |
| script | Art Camacho Richard Preston Jr. |
| production |
Gary Daniels Joseph Merhi Richard Pepin Spiro Razatos Sam Sleiman |
| music | Timothy Wynn |
| camera | Ken Blakey |
| cut | Heidi Scharfe |
| occupation | |
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Recoil - Deadly Retribution (Original title: Recoil ) is an American action film from 1998 with Gary Daniels in the lead role. In most countries the film is a direct-to-video production.
action
After a bank robbery, a chase breaks out in Los Angeles between a suspect and several police officers, who ultimately manage to kill the completely veiled person. When Detective Ray Morgan removes the face mask, the police can see that it is a juvenile offender.
His father also sees the pictures of the man shot on the news. He, a criminal mafia boss, swears revenge immediately and instructs his other sons to kill the responsible men. To prevent the police from suspecting him, he also decides to steal his son's body, which Detective Morgan realizes that there must be a black sheep within the police force .
While he and his friend Detective Cassidy are vacationing with their families away from Los Angeles to get the drama out of their heads, the other cops involved are shot. Since Detective Cassidy is of no interest to the Mafiosi, he takes on the case, and Detective Morgan leaves the area again with his family. Nevertheless, his wife and children are murdered, only Morgan survives.
After he woke up from the coma, Detective Cassidy, who had stood by him until the end, was murdered soon after. Morgan realizes that his own boss has to be the informer in the ranks of the police, and so he starts a final campaign of revenge in which he succeeds in killing the police chief, the mafioso, and his sons.
reception
The action was praised by Schnittberichte.com , but the scenes were sometimes too long. In addition, Daniels' acting performance was criticized.
TV Spielfilm came to a mediocre verdict. The film began "powerful", but would "then get boring".
The lexicon of international films sharply criticized the film. The editors saw an "action film that [...] took every opportunity to generate tension through outrageous exaggerations and numerous unbelievable facts".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Recoil - Deadly Retribution on Schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Film review on TV-Spielfilm.de
- ↑ Recoil - Deadly Retribution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2017 .
Web links
- Recoil - Deadly retaliation in the Internet Movie Database (English)