Sabotage (2014)

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Movie
German title sabotage
Original title sabotage
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2014
length 109 minutes
shortened: 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
shortened: FSK 16
Rod
Director David Ayer
script David Ayer,
Skip Woods
production David Ayer,
Bill Block ,
Paul Hanson ,
Ethan Smith ,
Palak Patel
music Dave Sardy
camera Bruce McCleery
cut Dody thorn
occupation

Sabotage is an American action film from the year 2014 of David Ayer with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role. The film premiered in US cinemas on March 26, 2014 . The German theatrical release was on April 10, 2014.

action

John Wharton ("Breacher") is the leader of the elite team of a special unit of the DEA drug investigation . The associated agents of the DEA SOT are James Murray ("Monster") and his wife Lizzy Murray, Joe Philips ("Grinder"), Julius Edmonds ("Sugar"), Eddie Jordan ("Neck"), Tom Roberts ("Pyro") ), Bryce McNeely ("Tripod") and Smoke Jennings.

The team steals $ 10,000,000 in a raid on a cartel fortress that shoots Smoke . They hide the money in a sewer pipe to collect it later and divide it up among themselves. When they wanted to get the money, however, it disappeared. Her manager, Floyd Demel, learns about this and suspends her for several months while he investigates the theft. Although they are monitoring Breacher and the team, no concrete evidence of their act is found and Demel has to reinstate them.

After a successful training session, the team celebrates with plenty of alcohol in a bar. Later that night, Pyro is killed because someone has driven his mobile home onto the tracks and a train rams it. Atlanta Police Department Homicide Investigator Caroline Brentwood and her partner Darius Jackson are set to investigate Pyro's teammates. Brentwood also wants to question Neck and asks Breacher for his help. Together they drive to Neck's house, where they find him nailed to the ceiling and gutted. Brentwood recognizes the modus operandi of the cartels by the execution , which leads Breacher to the assumption that the Rios-Garzas drug cartel is already hunting the team and the stolen money.

After the DEA refused to help investigate the murders, an informant leaked a USB stick to Brentwood on which a video recording of the interrogation of the Breacher team by the DEA investigators regarding the theft is recorded. Angrily, she realizes that Breacher was not being honest with her and confronts him.

Breacher and Brentwood want to warn Tripod, who has left the DEA, but find him dead and covered in banknotes. He was killed in a shooting. Breacher was able to identify one of the killed attackers as a former Guatemalan elite soldier (Kaibil). Monster later visits Brentwood, who is still suspicious of Breacher, and explains to her what happened two years earlier after the cartel boss Edgar Rios failed to hand over the cartel to the Mexican federal police in Juarez : Breacher's family was kidnapped by the cartel. For weeks they recorded the torture and murders of his wife and son on video and sent him body parts of his relatives and finally the tape. Breacher spent months searching for his family's killers before the team convinced him to come back. Brentwood apologizes to Breacher, who forgives her and provides more information on her case.

Jackson follows in the footsteps of the dead Kaibil to a cell phone in a cartel-monitored house that Breacher and his team raid to find the killers of the other team members. There are drug dealers and methamphetamine there , but no cartel killers. The killers are later found at the bottom of a river near Tripod's house. It turns out they were killed before Pyro and Neck. One of the kaibiles is missing a thumb. Brentwood discovers that the fingerprint matches one of Pyro's RV. That means someone else killed the DEA SOT people and wants to raise suspicions about the cartel. Breacher gathers the team to tell them what happened. Lizzy freaks out and reveals an affair with Sugar.

Grinder later confesses to Brentwood that they stole the money. They then meet with Breacher to discuss what to do. At that moment, Lizzy shoots Grinder with a sniper rifle and then escapes with Sugar. During the escape, Lizzy meets Monster who destroys her passport in the drain chopper and is stabbed to death by the angry Lizzy with a knife. Brentwood and Breacher arrive at Monster's house looking for Lizzy and Sugar and find him dead in the fridge.

At an agreed later meeting in a parking garage, Brentwood and Breacher get into a shootout with Lizzy and Sugar. After chasing the streets of the city, Sugar dies in an accident in which Lizzy is seriously injured. Breacher admits to Lizzy that it is not the team that has the money, but him. Lizzy tries to reach her gun, but Breacher shoots her first.

Weeks later, Breacher is seen in Mexico, where he bribes a police officer with the stolen money to find out the whereabouts of the man who killed his family. Breacher finds him in a Mexican bar and kills him and his cronies in a violent exchange of fire, in which he is injured himself. After avenging his family, he sits down at a table, takes a sip of whiskey, lights a cigar and smiles.

background

The original title of the film was intended to be Ten and Breacher . The film is considered an adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (Original: Ten Little Niggers ), the best-selling detective novel.

Filming took place from September 2012 to January 2013 mainly in Atlanta , Georgia , Hartford and New York . The production company Open Road Films (II), QED International and Crave film possessed a budget estimated at 35 million US dollars .

reception

Sabotage received mostly negative reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , with a total of 103 reviews, only 19% of the reviews are positive. The average rating is 4.3 / 10. The conclusion of the site is: "The film boasts one of the better portrayals of Schwarzenegger's political career, but it is in vain in a film full of grueling, apparently senseless violence." At Metacritic , the film received 41% positive reviews from a total of 31 reviews . On the IGN Entertainment website , however, the film received a rating of 7/10 with the verdict: “The film is far more effective than its action-packed trailer suggested; the film is more of a mystery thriller that gives Arnold Schwarzenegger and the laid-back ensemble the opportunity to act instead of just shooting around. "

The film-dienst described the film as a "cynical vigilante-justice thriller full of logical breaks, violence in itself and an involuntarily comical homage to its main actor Arnold Schwarzenegger". This fails to "carry the film alone". Neither “the hard-working cool sayings nor his impressive physique or the hard physical exertion” could distract from the fact that he was “now an old man”, “who cannot act”. However, the film website kino.de said the film was “Schwarzenegger's best comeback film to date” and, despite confusion and lack of plausibility, functions as an “action drama and portrait of an undercover unit”, in which the “macho behavior” is almost a caricature. The film is "dark and brutal" and realistic in the access scenes before it "completely loses its grip" at the end.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for sabotage . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 222-a V).
  2. ↑ a b Release certificate for sabotage (abridged version) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, April 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 222 V).
  3. ^ First look at Arnold Schwarzenegger in Ten Flickering Myth.com of October 26, 2012, online, accessed November 9, 2012
  4. ↑ Budget and box office results in the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Sabotage (2014). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on September 16, 2014 (English): "Sabotage boasts one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's finer post-political performances, but it's wasted in a movie driven by grueling violence that punishes seemingly without purpose."
  6. ^ Sabotage. Metacritic , accessed September 16, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Jim Vejvoda: Sabotage Review. And then there were none. IGN Entertainment , March 27, 2014, accessed on September 16, 2014 (English): "Sabotage is far more effective than its action-centric trailers have suggested, with the film more a mystery-thriller that actually offers Arnold Schwarzenegger and the cool ensemble a chance to act and not just shoot guns. "
  8. ^ Jörg Gerle: Sabotage. film-dienst 19/2014, accessed on September 16, 2014 .
  9. ^ Kob: sabotage. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on September 16, 2014 .