The Gunman
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Gunman |
| Original title | The Gunman |
| Country of production | France , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Pierre Morel |
| script |
Don Macpherson , Pete Travis , Sean Penn |
| production | Sean Penn, Ron Halpern , Andrew Rona , Joel Silver |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Flavio Martínez Labiano |
| cut | Frédéric Thoraval |
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The Gunman is a French - American action - thriller directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson , Pete Travis and Sean Penn , based on the novel La position du tireur couché , dt. Position: stop lying , by Jean-Patrick Manchette . Penn can be seen in the main role, with Idris Elba , Ray Winstone , Mark Rylance and Javier Bardem in the supporting roles . The film premiered on February 16, 2015 in London. The start of Germany was on April 30, 2015.
action
Jim Terrier was a member of the Special Forces and has since joined a mercenary force that specializes in particularly delicate jobs. In 2006 the elite unit is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The Mining Minister announced that all contracts with foreign companies would be suspended and renegotiated. Since there are signs of political corruption, it seems appropriate to act. In order to secure easier access for foreign companies to the country's rich mineral resources, the mercenary troops then carried out a fatal attack on the minister. According to the leader Felix, the shooter Jim is supposed to leave the continent after the action, knowing full well that he has to leave his girlfriend - the doctor Annie - behind. He asks Felix to take care of Annie.
After this experience, Jim ended his life as a mercenary. He does not return to the Congo until seven years later, on behalf of an aid organization, and builds wells. A year later he was ambushed by a killer squad while doing this job, managed to save himself and fled to London, where he lived. In London he meets with his ex-comrade Cox to warn him. He tells him about the expansion of the security company Jim worked for, and mentions that Felix was the only one who had a direct line to the clients during the attack on the mining minister and that Felix now lives in Barcelona. After visiting Cox, Jim visits another comrade and friend named Stanley in a bar and asks him for equipment. He collapses on leaving the bar and is taken to the hospital by Stanley. The exam reveals that amyloid plaque - usually a sign of Alzheimer's - has built up in Jim's brain . The doctor advises Jim to rest, but Jim wants to go to Barcelona with or without Stanley's help. Stanley lets his contacts play for Jim and later also flies to Barcelona.
In Barcelona, Jim tracks down Felix and discovers that he is now an entrepreneur and is in a relationship with Jim's old love Annie. Felix tells Jim he wants to call a few contacts and invites Jim to dinner with Annie. Annie later visits Jim and sleeps with him. He tells her that eight years ago he urgently had to leave the Congo and thus also her, but leaves the exact reasons in the dark. Annie gives Jim the address of her country house where he is supposed to meet both of them the next day to get the information Felix wanted to get hold of. The information that the drunk Felix passes on says that everyone involved in the mission at the time is on a list of compulsory summons from the US Congress and is being sought by Interpol . However, two of the three shooters are already dead. Jim realizes that he is the last survivor of three shooters. He suspects that Felix can no longer be trusted and pretends that his friend Stanley is about to come over and they want to go hunting together, whereupon Felix is obviously confused and moves to the toilet. Jim rushes after a short time late and catches Felix sending messages on his mobile phone.
Unknown gunmen attack the house, where Felix is killed. Jim and Annie escape after a heavy shootout that kills most of the attackers. Jim now confesses to Annie, which was his assignment at the time in the Congo and that Felix was her liaison man. Both drive to Jim's apartment in Barcelona. Annie drives around the block while the cautious Jim enters his apartment from the back and finds that an explosive device is attached to the front door. He disarms the explosive device and then goes into the apartment through the main entrance. Since this is being observed by the killers from an apartment across the street, they suspect a fault in the bomb and now want to kill Jim directly. Meanwhile, Jim reactivates the explosive device so that it explodes when the door is opened and kills the killers. Jim and Annie spend the night in a safe hiding place provided by Stanley. Stanley mentions that Cox's company owns a limited liability company in Gibraltar, disguised as an import / export company to conduct covert operations. This company is about to sign a new contract - on the "Pentagon scale" - so any accusation from the past is counterproductive. The hearing before the Congress should therefore be prevented and Jim is still the only survivor and therefore a witness on their hit list.
The next day Jim drives to Gibraltar. There he sees Cox leaving the building. He calls his office and tells the secretary that he will be expecting Cox in the aquarium in an hour . This also appears and both walk a bit together. You are approached by a woman who pretends to be an acquaintance. Jim brutally knocks her down (she dies a few minutes later) and finds an anesthetic in her pocket that was probably meant for him. Angry about the trap that Cox wanted to set him, he roughly pushes him into a cellar of the aquarium and threatens him with a gun. During the following conversation, Jim kept breaking down because of his brain disease. Cox escapes, but Jim shoots him, but now comes under fire from Cox's helpers himself. He managed to escape, but collapsed unconscious between dumpsters. When he wakes up a few hours later, he calls Stanley. However, Cox answers the phone, who is torturing Stanley and shortly after he shoots him in front of Jim's ears. Annie is also being held captive. Jim sends an incriminating video to Cox on his cell phone showing Cox giving instructions for the operation in the Congo. Cox agrees to meet Jim in a public square to exchange the notes and video for Annie.
Meanwhile, Jim called the Barnes interpolation agent and told him about the meeting in a bullring . Cox sits there next to Annie while Jim watches them. When Jim is discovered by Cox's helpers, a chase begins into the corridors of the bullring. There Jim succeeds in eliminating all three of Cox's helpers one after the other. In the fight, however, he is injured by a bullet in the lower abdomen. When Cox leaves the seats together with Annie, she can tear herself away and flee. However, Cox catches up with her, aims at Annie and demands the documents from Jim, who is also aiming at Cox. Jim fires several shots at Cox and instructs Annie to climb up on a rope to join him. This will open a door. A bull runs towards Cox and kills him deadly. Annie and Jim are hugging each other while a special task force storms the scene and arrests them both.
At the hospital, Barnes explains to Jim that he is going to jail for his part in the assassination and that he knows Annie has nothing to do with it; so she faces no punishment. Based on the new information, the chief executive of an international security company and the executive director of a mining company are arrested on suspicion of having ordered the assassination of the minister of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In the last scene, Annie can be seen working as a doctor back in the Congo when Jim, apparently released from prison, arrives at her place in a taxi. Both are happy and approach each other.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book by Alexander lion and the dialogue director of Cay-Michael Wolf on behalf of the Film & TV sync in Berlin .
| actor | role | Voice actor |
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| Sean Penn | Jim Terrier | Tobias Master |
| Javier Bardem | Felix | Carlos Lobo |
| Jasmine Trinca | Annie | Natascha Schaff |
| Idris Elba | Jackie Barnes | Leon Boden |
| Mark Rylance | Cox | Udo Schenk |
| Peter Franzén | cleanser | Gerrit Hamann |
| Ray Winstone | Stanley | Holger Schwiers |
background
In early 2013, the French action director Pierre Morel entered into direct negotiations with Sean Penn, Joel and Andrew Rona over the production of the action thriller The Prone Gunman , which was to be produced by Silver Pictures . The project was fully funded by Studiocanal , which sold the rights to the film during the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival .
In May 2013 Deadline magazine reported that Javier Bardem would play the villain. In June it was reported that Ray Winstone would also star in the film. In doing so, he should take on the role of mentor to the shooter who is betrayed and hunted down by his former company. Jasmine Trinca has the female lead. Bardem plays Annie's husband and Elba plays the mysterious agent Dupont.
The film was shot on various locations between June 21, 2013 and September 2013. These included Spain , England , South Africa and the Wimbledon Studios in England.
On May 8, 2014, Open Road Films acquired the US distribution rights to the film.
reception
Cinema receipts
The Gunman grossed $ 16.4 million in the United States. The budget was $ 40 million.
criticism
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The Gunman received mixed reviews:
“[…] Even the first look at Sean Penn, on duty in the Congo, is tough. He trained his mid-fifties body to the point of dropping. Now the veins on his arms protrude as thick as a finger, which he flaunts in sleeveless khaki vests, and the skin looks tanned. Its neck is reminiscent of a hundred-year-old Galapagos tortoise. All of this is rounded off by the well-known and tried, always slightly sour Sean Penn look. [...] "
"[...] Like Sylvester Stallone once: In Pierre Morel's below-average action thriller, Sean Penn shows a previously unknown side. Instead of intensity and intellect, he relies on mass and muscles [...] "
“Tough, uninventively staged action film, the complicated plot of which serves primarily to show the unbroken fitness of the aged leading actor. This sells just as below value as the rest of the ensemble. "
Web links
- Official website
- The Gunman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Gunman at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Gunman at Metacritic (English)
- The Gunman in the online movie database
- The Gunman in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Gunman . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 486 K).
- ↑ a b Mike Fleming: Javier Bardem Pacts Pair: He'll Star In JC Chandor's 'A Most Violent Year' And Opposite Sean Penn In 'The Gunman'. Deadline, June 5, 2013, accessed on June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b The Gunman (2015) - Release Info. IMDb, accessed June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b The Gunman. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Craig Hunter: Ray Winstone To Train 'The Gunman'. The Hollywood News, June 16, 2013, accessed June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: Cannes: Raft Of Buyers Target Studiocanal's Sean Penn-Starrer 'The Gunman'. Deadline, May 19, 2013, accessed on March 21, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr .: Ray Winstone Has Sean Penn's Back In 'The Gunman'. Deadline, June 14, 2013, accessed on June 21, 2015 (English).
- ^ Idris Elba joins Sean Penn and Javier Bardem in Pierre Morel's 'Gunman' - / film. Slashfilm.com, June 14, 2013, accessed June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c The Gunman (2015) - Box office / business. IMDb, accessed June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 'Taken' Director to Helm Sean Penn thriller 'Prone Gunman' (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter, January 28, 2013, accessed June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ see credits of the film
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr .: Open Road Acquiring StudioCanal's 'The Gunman' With Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba And Ray Winstone. Deadline, May 8, 2014, accessed on June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b The Gunman at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed June 22, 2015
- ↑ a b The Gunman at Metacritic , accessed June 22, 2015
- ↑ The Gunman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ The Gunman - Criticism - Film - Film-Zeit. (No longer available online.) Film time, archived from the original on June 22, 2015 ; accessed on June 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: "The Gunman" with Sean Penn in the cinema: Sean, the Galapagos tortoise. Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on June 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Frank Schnelle: Review of The Gunman. epd-film, April 17, 2015, accessed on June 21, 2015 .
- ^ The Gunman. Film service, accessed June 21, 2015 .
