The Flock - dark shoots

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Movie
German title The Flock - dark shoots
Original title The flock
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Wai-Keung Lau
script Hans Bauer
Craig Mitchell
production Jenette Kahn
Wai-Keung Lau
Philippe Martinez
Larry Rapaport
Adam Richman
Elie Samaha
music Guy Farley
camera Enrique Chediak
cut Tracy Adams
Martin Hunter
occupation

Dark instincts - The Flock (The Flock) is an American thriller from the year 2007 . Directed by Wai-keung Lau , the screenplay is by Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell .

action

Erroll Babbage and Allison Lowry are agents for a US security agency dealing with sex offenders . Babbage is to form Lowry, which is to take over the task because you have forced him a few weeks later in retirement to go.

At the beginning of the film, Harriet Wells disappears. Babbage is known among his colleagues for his unconventional methods and quirks. He introduces Lowry to some cases. They meet the hairdresser Viola Frye, who, as an accomplice of a sex murderer, only had to go to prison for a short time because she testified against her husband. They also meet the newly arrived Edmund Grooms, known as the Thug, who has a young woman, Beatrice Bell, with him. As Babbage suspects that Harriet Wells has been kidnapped by a sex offender who has already been suspected, they both go on a search and discover that leads to Glenn Custis, also a convicted sex offender.

In the meantime, it is becoming increasingly clear that Babbage has significant problems. So he beats two of the offenders with a baseball bat . While looking for Custis, the investigators find a series of photographs and identify a girl. This claims to have been approached by Custis in Viola Frye's salon. During a visit they find a kind of scrapbook from their fan club in Frye's apartment , Frye himself has disappeared.

Meanwhile, Wells called home, allegedly from California , and the search is officially suspended. Babbage doesn't believe Wells volunteered to call, but suspects that she was coerced. He is released without notice and on his last visit he is able to convince Lowry that he knows where Custis is holding Wells. At this place, Babbage and Lowry find a badly decayed girl's corpse, who is identified by a tattoo as Beatrice Bell's. Custis is found with his throat cut . Babbage and Lowry go to a meeting with a former sex offender contact group, where Babbage threatens those present until one of them gives him the address of where Wells is being held.

There are Harriet Wells, Viola Frye and Edmund Grooms. Grooms turns out to be Frye's helper and tries to kill Wells. He meets Babbage at the door and is gunned down by Frye, who claims that Wells is dead and that she has been forced into complicity. Lowry and Babbage find Wells alive and arrest Viola Frye.

Babbage forces Frye to her former home, where she and her husband buried the remains of their victims. She is supposed to tell them the location of a girl whose parents he once promised to find the missing daughter. Wells comes back to her parents.

backgrounds

The film was in Albuquerque ( New Mexico turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 35 million US dollars . It opened in Greek cinemas on September 13, 2007 and on October 12, 2007 in Brazil , where there were around 41,000 viewers on the opening weekend. In Germany, the film was released directly on DVD on December 18, 2007.

The release of the film on the US R-rated DVD and the German version differ considerably in style and the scenes shown.

criticism

"Partly very tough psychological thriller with convincing main actors, who puts the behavior of the audience to the test with his attitude towards vigilante justice."

- Film lexicon from kabeleins.de

"Dirty, erratic pictures in the well-worn" CSI "look, a minimum of tension right up to the annoying lurid finale: From Wai-Keung Lau (also: Andrew Lau), co-director of the Hong Kong hit" Infernal Affairs ", you would have one stronger US debut expected. A shame about the two consistently credible leading actors. [...] Voyeuristic crap with inconsistencies. "

- cinema

“The carrier of all of these explosive topics is an ordinary crime story, which is essentially based on a banal game of cat and mouse. […] The dialogues are also not very convincing in places and although Claire Danes actually plays well, here and there you get the impression that she is just chasing after Gere. [...] It reaches its climax in an unexpectedly exciting and rousing finale, which, above all in two tough sequences, once again throws everything into the balance that the topic has to offer - nothing for the faint of heart. "

- filmstarts.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Flock - Dark shoots . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 166 V / DVD / UMD).
  2. ↑ Filming locations for The Flock (accessed November 7, 2007)
  3. ↑ Box office / business for The Flock (accessed November 7, 2007)
  4. ↑ The Flock's premiere dates (accessed November 7, 2007)
  5. ↑ www.filmstarts.de (accessed on November 7, 2007)
  6. ↑ www.schnittberichte.com (accessed on February 2, 2014)
  7. ↑ The Flock in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on August 22, 2010
  8. ↑ Film review by Cinema (accessed on August 22, 2010)
  9. ↑ Film review from filmstarts.de (accessed on August 22, 2010)