The hit list

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Movie
German title The hit list
Original title The hit list
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director William Kaufman
script Chad Law
Evan Law
production Freddy Braidy
music Deane Ogden
camera Mark Rutledge
cut Patrick McMahon
Jason A. Payne
occupation

The Hit List is a 2011 American crime film directed by William Kaufman and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. , Jonathan LaPaglia and Cole Hauser .

action

Bad day for Spokane engineer Allan Campbell , everything goes wrong. His Mexican believer Dom Estacado had already given him a violet and continues to threaten him. In the hoped-for promotion, his colleague Brian Felzner is preferred. When he gets home, he catches his wife Sydney cheating with his best friend Mike Dodd.

He ends up in a bar and washes down his anger and frustration with several drinks. At the bar he gets into a conversation with the Afro-American Jonas who is trying to rebuild him. Jonas asks him how he would like to reduce his frustration and tells him in turn that he is a hit man . Allan, already quite drunk, doesn't believe a word he says and is visibly amused about it. Jonas asks him to write down five names in ascending order of importance. He notes the list (English: Hit List; German: Death List) on a napkin:

  1. his wife Sydney
  2. his best friend Mike
  3. his believer cathedral
  4. his colleague Brian
  5. his boss

He goes to the bathroom and when he comes back, Jonas is gone.

Drunk he spends the night in his car. When he comes to the office in the morning, he learns of the nightly murder of his boss. He suddenly realizes that Jonas was serious.

Allan decides to warn the other victims on his list. The rest of the film story tells of the success or failure of these efforts and the initially doubtful, then increasingly desperate actions of the police under Detective Neil McKay. According to the genre, the film ends in a shootout between Allan and Jonas, which the “good guy” wins.

background

Locations

The film was shot in Spokane , Washington and Los Angeles , California in the spring of 2010 .

Error in the film ( script / continuity )

  • When Allan is on his way to Brian in the "Rosen-Building", he turns off at an intersection and drives behind a black Honda . After the camera shows the outside situation, he follows a white truck .
  • Allan's violets have different colors and sizes in different scenes.
  • In the final scene, when Allan is wearing his injured wife, his shirt is covered in blood. When he later escorts her to the ambulance, the back of the shirt is clean.
  • The officer of the patrol car who is supposed to pick up Mike checks his personal details on the on-board computer. His shirt sleeves are rolled up. When he gets out in the next scene, the sleeves are no longer rolled up.
  • When Allan writes the hit list on the napkin, his glass is at different angles in different places.
  • After Jonas ran over Brian on a one-way street , the traffic light is not in the direction indicated.
  • In a bar, Allan asks for a bigger glass. The bartender claims he doesn't have any bigger glasses. In the background, however, Jonas drinks his water from a much larger glass.
  • Allan pours coffee on his shirt. However, the next scene shows him with a dried stain, with dark edges and no transparency .

Others

  • The film was shot on a budget of six million US dollars.
  • Originally, Christian Slater , who played in "Lies & Illusions" and "Sacrifice - Day of Reckoning" alongside Cuba Gooding junior, was intended for the role of Allan Campbell.
  • The Spokane police refused to work on the film because it shows violence against the police. The reason for this was the "Lakewood, Washington Police Officer Shooting" that took place two months earlier and in which four officers were murdered.

Soundtrack

  • “Honky Tonk Barstool,” written by Zach Selwyn , performed by Zachariah and the Lobos Riders, Papago Records
  • "47 Ways To Die", written by Steve Blaze , performed by Lillian Ax , from the album "Deep Red Shadows"
  • “One More Time,” written by John Riven , performed by John Riven

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Hit List . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 465 V).
  2. ↑ Filming locations on IMDb.com. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ Goofs on IMDb.com. Retrieved August 24, 2013.