Deadly Christmas

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Movie
German title Deadly Christmas
Original title The Long Kiss Goodnight
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Renny Harlin
script Shane Black
production Stephanie Austin ,
Shane Black,
Renny Harlin
music Alan Silvestri
camera Guillermo Navarro
cut William Goldenberg
occupation
synchronization

The Long Kiss Goodnight (Original title: The Long Kiss Goodnight ) is an American action - thriller from the year 1996 . Renny Harlin directed the film , Shane Black wrote the screenplay , and Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson played the leading roles .

action

Samantha Caine, a teacher in a small town in Pennsylvania , had a serious accident several years ago and can not remember the time before because of existing retrograde amnesia . During a Christmas parade she can be seen briefly on television and is recognized by a prison inmate. He breaks out and comes to the city where Samantha lives to kill her. Samantha successfully defends herself and discovers previously unimagined martial arts. She then decides to find out what these skills are based on and hires private detective Mitch Henessey for this purpose . Henessey's investigation finally leads him and Samantha to the former agent Nathan Waldman, who clears up the two: Samantha's real name is Charly Baltimore and before her accident was a killer who worked for the government.

Waldman also points out that Charly has not finished her last assignment, which is related to a contact known as "Daedalus". A postcard is the key to this mission. With the help of this, Charly and Mitch can track down “Daedalus”, a man named “Luke”. Luke is actually not their ally, but their target at the time, an internationally wanted terrorist who is planning an attack with his partner Timothy. Luke has Waldman killed and Mitch and Charly tortured. During the torture, Charly's old memories come back due to the near-death experience caused by the torture . She manages to break free and flees with Henessey after killing Luke.

Luke's partner Timothy pursues the two and kidnaps Samantha's daughter Caitlin. It turns out that Timothy is Caitlin's birth father. He kidnaps them and lures Mitch and Charly to a hotel near Niagara Falls - and thus into a trap. The two are captured and Timothy reveals Daedalus' original plans: The terrorists have made a pact with Charly's former boss, CIA agent and psychological warfare expert Leland Perkins. They want to commit a false flag attack by hiding a bomb in a truck and leave the body of an Arab on the spot . The attack would be blamed on unspecified Muslims from the Middle East , so that the government and secret services would be legalized to carry out actions directed against terrorism and more funds would be made available to the secret services threatened by budget cuts.

Charly manages to escape from captivity again, and Mitch can free her too. Together they chase Timothy and the truck and stop it at a bridge. The truck explodes, the attack is prevented and Leland Perkins is charged. Charly then returns to her family as Samantha.

Production, background

Production costs were estimated at 65 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 33 million in US cinemas and over $ 89 million worldwide.

There are clear parallels to Robert Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity . Quentin Tarantino took up various motifs as well as parts of the soundtrack in his revenge opera Kill Bill - Volume 1 + 2 . Talk host Larry King appears in his own role at the end of the film, as in many other productions.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company Neue Tonfilm München , the dialogue book is by Holger Schwiers , who also directed the dialogue .

role Actress German dubbing voice
Samantha / Charly Geena Davis Sabine Trooger
Mitch Samuel L. Jackson Holger Schwiers
Timothy Craig Bierko Christian Tramitz
Dr. Nathan Waldman Brian Cox Gudo Hoegel
Luke / Daedalus David Morse Gudo Hoegel
Leland Perkins Patrick Malahide Franz Rudnick
Trin Melina Kanakaredes Anke Reitzenstein
One-eyed Jack Joseph McKenna Wolfgang Müller
Hal Tom Amandes Frank Röth
president DG Spradlin Niels Clausnitzer
Earl Alan North Walter Reichelt
he himself Larry King Michael Brennicke
Man in bed Rex Linn Gerd Rigauer
Donlevy, homeless officer Shawn Doyle Andreas Borcherding
Surveillance man Frank R. Moore Manfred Trilling

publication

The film premiered on October 11, 1996 in Canada and the United States. In the same year it was published in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, the Philippines, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, South Korea, Finland, Denmark, Norway and South Africa, in 1997 in Australia, Iceland, Hong Kong, Singapore , in Turkey, New Zealand, Japan, Poland, Argentina, Mexico, Hungary, Greece and Italy, in 1998 in Slovenia, Estonia and Brazil. The film was also released in Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.

Deadly Christmas had its cinema premiere in Germany on December 12, 1996. On November 17, 2006, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD with a German soundtrack.

Reviews

James Berardinelli said on ReelViews that the film delivers exactly what one would expect from director Renny Harlin. In addition to some "nifty" action sequences, Berardinelli praised the "great" portrayal of Samuel L. Jackson, who gives the film humor through his onliner and is the real reason to watch Deadly Christmas . Geena Davis is strong enough as an actress to convincingly portray the two identities of her character, with Sam being “more appealing” than Charly , who seems like “a humorless mixture of Nikita and a female James Bond ”.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 11, 1996 that he admired the film "as an example of craftsmanship" but that he missed real substance. Ebert praised Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, who would prove by their mutual "taunts" between the special effects that they are ready for anything.

“Action film that combines different elements of the genre up to and including Hong Kong cinema into an entertaining mix, but lacks an overarching concept. The unusual presence of the leading actress as an action star alone holds the film together. "

- Lexicon of international film

“In“ The Long Kiss Goodnight ”[Renny Harlin] sends his wife Geena Davis as a female terminator through an elaborate action steel fire of shootouts, stunts and absurdly exaggerated tough guy dialogues from the pen of“ Last Boy Scout ”author Shane Black. Pithy sayings from the Tarantino School find their target in this cold-blooded Fantasmagoria [...] with just as great accuracy as the large-caliber projectiles of the ultra-monkey Heroine. "

- Kino.de

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Business Data for "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
  2. ↑ www.Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro The Long Kiss Goodnight accessed on December 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Deadly Christmas. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Deadly Christmas Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson)
  5. ^ The Long Kiss Goodnight , review by James Berardinelli , 1996 see preview.reelviews.net (English).
  6. ^ The Long Kiss Goodnight review by Roger Ebert, October 11, 1996 sS rogerebert.com (English).
  7. ↑ Deadly Christmas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Deadly Christmas sS kino.de, accessed on December 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ Awards for "The Long Kiss Goodnight"