The specialist

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Movie
German title The specialist
Original title The specialist
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Country of production USA , Peru
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Luis Llosa
script Alexandra Seros
production Steve Barron , Chuck Binder , Jeff Most , Jerry Weintraub
music John Barry
camera Jeffrey L. Kimball
cut Jack Hofstra
occupation

The Specialist (alternative title: The Specialist ) is an action film directed by Luis Llosa from 1994. The main roles were played by Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone .

action

In 1984, in Colombia, explosives experts Ray Quick and Ned Trent were commissioned by the CIA to blow up a drug lord's car. When Quick sees that a child is sitting in the car, he wants to prevent the detonation, but Trent ensures that the explosion takes place and that the vehicle occupants die. Quick beats up Trent and leaves the CIA.

Years later, Quick works as an independent killer. He receives orders via a website and decides which of them to accept. He specializes in killing his victims with precisely measured explosive charges that do not cause collateral damage. One day he is contacted by May Munro, whose parents were liquidated by Tomas Leon and his men. She was still a child and had to watch the execution hidden in the closet. Since then she's been out for revenge. Quick is fascinated by Munro's beauty and its history and accepts the assignment.

Quick agrees that Munro approaches Tomas Leon as Adrian Hastings. He is the son of the Mafia boss Joe Leon, for whom Trent in turn works as a security expert. Tomas takes Munro as his lover, while Quick eliminates the mafia clan's middlemen one after the other with his special explosive charges. Trent recognizes Quicks' handwriting and allows Joe's connections to infiltrate the police bomb squad to speed up the search for Quick. It is now revealed that Munro hired Quick on Trent's behalf. Trent had to leave the CIA after the incident in Colombia and now wants to track down Quick to eliminate him.

Finally Quick prepares a booby trap for Tomas, but when it detonates, Munro is in the room and is apparently also killed. Joe blames Trent for Tomas' death for failing as chief security officer, and leaves him alive only so that he can finally track down Quick. Trent sends Quick a bogus request through the online service, but Quick sees the trap and lures Trent and the bomb squad to an old warehouse, which he blows up, but without injuring anyone.

At the alleged funeral of Munro alias Hastings, Quick discovers that she has only faked her death. You retreat to a hotel room and become intimate. Then she leaves the hotel room and is picked up by Trent, who is holding her. He learns from the hotel staff which room Quick is in and sends his people there. But Munro can warn Quick over the phone. He installs an improvised booby trap, causing three of Trent's people to fall into the sea with half their apartment.

Trent intensifies his efforts to find out Quick's whereabouts and eventually finds it. He has a large police force surround Quick's lair, an old warehouse by the harbor. Trent sends Munro in with a bug to make sure Quick is there. He riddled the building with explosive charges and activated the contact fuses when he noticed that he was discovered. Trent gains entry and holds Quick at bay with a pistol, but then steps on contact that sets off an explosion below him. One after the other, the explosive charges detonate and blow up the whole building, while Quick and Munro disappear unnoticed through a floor hatch at the last moment.

The next day, Joe Leon reads the news of the exploded warehouse and the deaths of Trent, Quicks and Munro in the newspaper. In a package he receives a chain with a medallion that contains a photo of little May Munro with her parents and which explodes immediately afterwards. Outside, Quick and Munro happily get into the car and drive away.

Reviews

The Specialist was not particularly well received by critics or audiences. On Rotten Tomatoes , only two of a total of 28 reviews were positive, which corresponds to a rating of 7%.

The American film critic James Berardinelli described the film as "unspeakably stupid", while Roger Ebert described the plot as "so improbable" that it was "not worth the excruciating maze of dialogue and action".

"An unpleasant mixture of inhuman violence and sex scenes, tailored entirely to the two main actors, whose simple-minded dramaturgy is so predictable that all tension is soon lost."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Sharon Stone was nominated for the film award MTV Movie Award nomination. John Barry won the BMI Film Music Award .

The film received the Golden Raspberry in two categories: for Sharon Stone and for the couple Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone. He was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in three other categories: For Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger and producer Jerry Weintraub.

background

The cost of production was approximately $ 45 million. The film grossed approximately $ 57 million in US cinemas and approximately $ 170 million worldwide. In Germany there were around 1.2 million moviegoers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ^ The Specialist. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ Box office results according to the Internet Movie Database