Simon Sez
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Simon Sez |
| Country of production |
Germany Belgium USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Elders |
| script |
Moshe Diamond Rudy Cohen Andrew Miller Andrew Lowery |
| production | Moshe diamond |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Avraham Karpick |
| cut | Alain Jakubowicz |
| occupation | |
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Simon Sez is an action comedy directed by Kevin Elders in 1999. It was created in a German-Belgian-US co-production.
action
Simon Sez works as an agent for Interpol , supported by his assistants Micro and Macro. His focus is on the machinations of the gunsmith Ashton, who tries to close a deal with Colonel Jacques Telore. The Colonel changed his mind at short notice. Meanwhile, young Claire and young Michael spend the holiday season together in Simon's adopted country of France. Claire came to France as an exchange student and fell in love with Michael. However, his father Bernard Gabrielli, head of a movement that wants Corsica to become independent from France, holds Claire hostage without her knowledge. He demands a secret CD-ROM from Claire's father, William Fence, in exchange for his daughter. Nick Miranda should deliver the CD. Shortly before the handover, Nick runs into Simon, whom he knows from before. Simon prevents the handover of the suitcase with the CD, which contains encrypted data from the US Department of Defense. In order not to endanger Claire's life, Simon Nick promises to free Claire on his own.
With Nick's amateurish help, Simon manages to kidnap Claire. She reacts angry because she wanted to stay with Michael. She can't believe Michael's father wanted to hold her hostage and breaks out of Simon's property at night. Ashton's men kidnap her and ask her father to hand over the CD. Ashton can also get the Colonel to hand him a long desired weapon: The portable laser has a great destructive power, but can only work with the associated software, which is on the CD. William Fence out of necessity hands the CD to Ashton. Numerous people are now teaming up to free Claire and get the data CD back: Simon, Nick, Micro and Macro, Claire's friend Michael and Simon's ex, a counter-agent who has fought the group so far. Together they manage to free Claire and destroy the CD and the laser, whereby Ashton is also killed. He had tried to the last to destroy the Paris Eiffel Tower with the laser . Nick, who was rejected by the FBI for incompetence, is now receiving his first individual assignment from the secret service. Simon Sez and his ex get back together and Claire and Michael get married.
production
The shooting of Simon Sez took place in Nice , Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cagnes-sur-Mer , among others . Ashton's castle was actually the Château de la Napoule in Mandelieu-la-Napoule . The final scenes about the super weapon were filmed in the Observatoire de Nice , with the large telescope of the observatory representing the laser. Jaleh Falk created the costumes, Damien Lanfranchi designed the film .
Simon Sez was released in US cinemas on September 24, 1999 and was released directly on video in Germany on April 18, 2000 and on DVD on May 2, 2000. On April 4, 2003, the ProSieben film was shown for the first time on German television.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Sez | Dennis Rodman | Marco Kroeger |
| Nick Miranda | Dane Cook | Frank Röth |
| Colonel Jacques Telore | Igor De Savitch | Ulrich Frank |
| Michael Gabrielli | Filip Nikolic | Axel Malzacher |
criticism
"Except for a few passable action scenes, this is a pitiful film, whose caustic humor shouldn't be for everyone," judged the film service . "Rodman [...] stalks woodenly through the scenes, and Cook is annoying as a Jim Carrey copy," summarized Cinema . In the film “a thin story about kidnapping and arms trafficking joins at best passable action scenes,” wrote the Hamburger Abendblatt , while the Saarbrücker Zeitung found that “it [says] a lot about the film when the athlete Rodman is far from the worst actor is. ”The film contains“ pointless dialogues, unimaginatively staged action scenes and a pesky supporting actor ”. Die Welt wrote that the film was confused, but that Dennis Rodman was acting “straightforward, cool and straightforward”; In addition, top model Emma Sjöberg tries "not so unsuccessfully" as an actress.
Awards
Dennis Rodman was nominated Worst Newcomer of the Decade for Simon Sez and Double Team in 2000 for a Golden Raspberry .
Web links
- Simon Sez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Sez. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Simon Sez. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Simon Sez on cinema.de
- ↑ Tatoos & Muscles . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 13, 2000, p. 24.
- ^ Nebulized in Cinemascope . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 20, 2000.
- ↑ Jan Gympel: Two against the world . In: Die Welt , July 13, 2000, p. 30.