The 5th Commandment - You shouldn't kill
| Movie | |
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| German title | The 5th Commandment - You shouldn't kill |
| Original title | The Fifth Commandment |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK no youth approval |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jesse V. Johnson |
| script | Rick Yune |
| production | Rick Yune, Andrew Zarrow |
| music | Paul Haslinger |
| camera | Robert Hayes |
| cut |
Ken Blackwell , Michael J. Duthie , Christian Wagner |
| occupation | |
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The 5th Commandment (Original title: The Fifth Commandment ) is an American action film from 2008 . The production is the directorial debut of stuntman and coordinator Jesse V. Johnson . The script about a hit man who changes sides out of loyalty and friendship comes from lead actor and producer Rick Yune .
The production started on September 18, 2008 in 30 German cinemas, but it could not convince either the audience or the critics.
action
Chinatown , Los Angeles , 1976. The honorable Afro-American professional killer Max “Coldbreeze” Templeton, code name “Jazzman”, poses a group of wanted gangsters around the unscrupulous “Collateral” in a small import shop for Asian specialties, who previously cold-blooded the shopkeeper and wife murdered. Coldbreeze, an opponent of Collateral, decimates the murderers present and casually saves the life of the small chance, the offspring of the murdered shopkeeper family. The single murderer takes care of the orphaned child and raises him with his son Miles, who is about the same age.
During this time, the foster father teaches the boy how to use weapons and martial arts and eventually drills him into a contract killer. The two boys become friends until they are separated at some point. The good-natured Miles uses his acquired skills and takes a different path in life. He becomes a bodyguard .
In the present, Chance is a popular hitman who goes about his bloody craft with a stoic calm and carries out various contract killings. Due to misinformation from his father's alcohol addicted mentor, Chance believed for years that his beloved stepbrother was dead. When he receives the order to liquidate the American singer Angel on a Thailand tour, he suddenly discovers that he has been lied to and betrayed by Coldbreeze because the target person is being protected by his stepbrother, who was believed to be dead. First doubts about the correctness of his actions become apparent. The killer refuses the fatal assignment, warns Miles and finally takes his side. Soon after, other hit men are dispatched: the Japanese killer couple Damage and Collateral. The unscrupulous duo tries to use the singer's first major appearance to eliminate the target in Bangkok. Chance thwarted the assassination through his courageous intervention, killing Damage in turn and flees with Miles and the singer through the Thai metropolis, pursued by vengeful collateral.
Miles is murdered during their escape. Chance, falsely wanted as a cop killer, is now solely responsible for Angel. Meanwhile, Angel and her new protector develop a little love affair. The skilled fighter eventually brings the singer to her manager, who, however, turns out to be the mastermind behind the plot. Before Chance realizes his mistake, Collateral kills the said music manager and kidnaps the artist. At the end of the film, Chance manages to free Angel in an exhausting action when the jazzman who has been summoned enters the scene. The foster father kills the present collateral, but spares his foster son and ruefully sacrifices himself to the police officers who are summoned and knock him down. Chance survived.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "bloody action film of the B category, the stereotpyes genre cinema of the usual cut".
The film magazine Cinema drew the conclusion: "Wooden actors, stereotypical dramaturgy, mediocre fighting - this unimaginative B-movie version of Bodyguard would be better off as a DVD premiere - or in the 80s."
Web links
- The 5th Commandment - Thou shalt not kill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics on insidekino.de, accessed on December 1, 2008.
- ↑ The 5th Commandment - You shall not kill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ film review on cinema.de