Deadly formula
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Deadly formula |
| Original title | The enemy |
| Country of production | Luxembourg , USA , Germany , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Kinninmont |
| script | John Penney |
| production |
Tom Reeve Konstantin Thoeren |
| music | Guest Waltzing |
| camera | Michael Garfath |
| cut | Martin Brinkler |
| occupation | |
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Tödliche Formel ( The Enemy ) is a coproduction from 2001. The thriller was only released on video in Germany (in contrast to the English market) and was first broadcast on ARD in 2002. The plot is based on a book by Desmond Bagley .
action
Former German scientist Dr. Ashton flees the Eastern Bloc in 1963, faking his death. 40 years later he lives with his son Michael in a house in Canada and works with him to develop skin preparations made from frog skin. But when Michael's assistant is killed in a raid in the village, special agents Ogilvie and Kruger show up because they believe Michael should be kidnapped. Michael doesn't understand anything and believes in a robbery. But the strange behavior of his father and the young agent Penny make him suspicious.
When his father disappears at night, Michael doesn't understand anything anymore. He seeks the trust of Penny, which makes her superiors Kruger and Ogilvie suspicious. When she is released from the case, she persuades Michael to find out the whereabouts of the father on her own. When Ogilvie discovers Michael's disappearance, he orders a manhunt for him. Meanwhile, the perpetrators try to kidnap Michael again.
The trail leads them to Luxembourg, where his father went to a bank. In the meantime they have also found out that his father used to live in the GDR and developed chemical warfare agents for the Soviets. A terrorist group is now trying to get the research results or the antidote. The terrorists grab his father and blackmail him into developing the gas (called The Enemy), which they park in a car in the middle of a big city. If their request to obtain the antidote from his son Michael is not met, the bomb is detonated.
In the meantime, Ogilvie has revealed his cards to Michael and stated that he is interested in securing the formula. Michael tries to reconstruct the antidote from his father's documents through painstaking detailed work. But then he realizes that the solution is based on the skin test samples and tries to free his father himself. Ogilvie, allegedly upset about this, was just waiting for the situation as he suspects a mole is hidden in his department. This turns out to be Kruger at the handover location and the showdown takes place. Michael manages to save his father, but he asks him to go his own way and not to hand him over.
background
The beginning of the film contains a small historical mistake when the scientist drives a car that is too modern for 1963 and which only existed in the Soviet Union from 1970.
Reviews
"Mediocre action thriller that suffers from bad direction as well as from its lack of ideas."
Web links
- Deadly formula in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deadly Formula. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .