Bad Spies
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bad Spies |
| Original title | The Spy Who Dumped Me |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Susanna Fogel |
| script | Susanna Fogel, David Iserson |
| production |
Brian Grazer , Erica Huggins |
| music | Tyler Bates |
| camera | Barry Peterson |
| cut | Jonathan Schwartz |
| occupation | |
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Bad Spies is an action comedy and adventure film by Susanna Fogel , which was released in US cinemas on August 3, 2018 and in German cinemas on August 30, 2018.
action
Audrey celebrates her 30th birthday in a bar with her best friend and roommate Morgan. She is very upset with her ex-boyfriend Drew who recently broke up with her on a cell phone message.
Morgan persuades her to burn Drew's belongings, which are still in a box in her apartment, and sends Drew a text message as a "warning".
What Audrey doesn't know: Drew is a government agent who is currently traveling in Lithuania and is being followed by men who want to kill him. In a quick phone call he promises her to come back and asks her not to burn his belongings in the meantime.
The next day, in the organic supermarket where Audrey works as a cashier, she flirts with a man who asks her to accompany her outside. He asks her to get into his van, in which his colleague Duffer is already waiting for the two of them. He introduces himself as Sebastian Henshaw and tells her that Drew works for the CIA and has disappeared. Audrey claims she has not heard from Drew and informs Morgan that Drew is a spy.
Drew really does return to Audrey's apartment to retrieve his belongings. Below is a statue that is very important to him and that he once won in fantasy football . While a shootout begins in the apartment, Drew Audrey swears to travel to Vienna together and the next day in a Viennese café to hand the trophy to his contact - many lives would depend on it and she has to do it alone if he should be in have since been killed. In addition, she should be careful and not trust anyone.
While Drew is still talking to Audrey, they are shot at from outside the apartment. Drew is murdered by Morgan's Ukrainian one-night stand Victor, whom she had met the night before in the bar and who now also turns out to be a spy. Morgan pushes Victor off the balcony before he can attack Audrey, killing him.
After they fled the apartment, Morgan convinces Audrey that they should fly to Vienna. Once there, they go to the café that Drew told them to do, but the two of them don't know who is behind the mentioned contact "Verne". Sebastian appears in the café and demands the trophy. Audrey reluctantly hands it over to him while Morgan reads the name Verne on the waitress's sign in the toilet. She still tries to warn Audrey, but then the whole cafe is attacked and a wild shooting is started. Audrey and Morgan escape and are chased by men on motorcycles, but manage to escape.
Audrey reveals that she still has the trophy, having swapped it for one of the others she bought at the airport as cover. Morgan calls her parents, whom she has a very good relationship with, for advice on what to do and where to go. Her father advises her and Audrey to travel to Prague to stay with Roger, a family friend. After some difficulties, they manage to steal passports from two backpackers who look similar to them in order to get across the border to the Czech Republic without any problems. Finally sitting on the train on the way to Prague, the two discover by chance that the trophy contains a USB stick in the base.
Audrey and Morgan are welcomed and cooked by Roger in a friendly manner. When going to the toilet, Audrey, who has to vomit, notices, however, that the "real" Roger was killed and that she herself was poisoned by the food. Morgan, who has not eaten but is anesthetized by a syringe, is told to swallow the USB stick according to Audrey's instructions, but she fails. The kidnappers, the alleged Roger and a woman, tell the two that they flushed the stick down the toilet before they passed out.
The two women wake up in an abandoned sports hall and are abused and tortured by the Russian gymnast / assassin Nadedja - here they meet the old couple who Nadedja trains and who Audrey was once introduced to as Drew's parents. To save themselves and to appease Nadedja, the two women try to convince her how close the two are as best friends and tell her details of what they know about each other. They encourage Nadedja to tell them about their best friend too, but they have to realize that for her this is only the balance beam on which she trains her gymnastics.
Meanwhile, Sebastian and Duffer are sitting in a car outside the sports hall; Duffer gave the order to blow up the hall. Sebastian takes out his colleague and takes back the order to save Audrey and Morgan, who are believed to be still in the building. He succeeds and then takes her to Paris to see his boss, Wendy, who also assures her that the USB stick was flushed down the toilet in Prague. The women get tickets back to America. Sebastian is on leave because of his unauthorizedness and the injuries he received during his liberation. Morgan bragged about her merits, and unsuccessfully applied to Wendy for a job as a spy.
On the way to the airport, Sebastian explains to the two that Drew's "parents" are notorious criminals - Drew negotiated with them to sell the USB stick, but his love and relationship with Audrey got in his way. Now that it is certain that she can trust him, Audrey Sebastian confesses that she did not wash the memory stick down, but instead tucked it in her vagina. Sebastian tries to decrypt the encoded file, but fails due to changed passwords. Morgan calls Edward Snowden , who had a "crush" for her at a summer camp, and he helps them decode the data. Sebastian realizes that the USB stick is actually full of highly explosive information.
The trio travel to a hostel in Amsterdam, where they are attacked by people from the CIA. Sebastian's ex-colleague Duffer tries to get the memory stick in order to sell it afterwards. They are saved by their roommate who believes he prevented a robbery. With the help of Duffer's smartphone, they can pretend he's in possession of the USB stick and make sure the deal goes as planned. The coup is supposed to take place at a private party in the Technikmuseum in Berlin; So Audrey and Sebastian dress up as the Canadian ambassador couple, while Morgan joins the ranks of the artists of the Cirque du Soleil who perform there.
At the event, Sebastian is lured away and attacked and Morgan is forced to fight Nadedja, who survived the warehouse explosion, on the trapeze, where Morgan succeeds in killing her by causing her to crash. Meanwhile, Audrey receives a message. She doesn't want to let the deal go, so she approaches the mysterious contact alone and finds Drew, who, contrary to her assumption, is still alive. Drew tells Audrey how hard he fought to see her, but becomes suspicious by searching her purse to find the USB stick.
Drew's "parents" appear with Sebastian as a hostage and are then shot. Drew and Sebastian accuse each other of hurting Audrey's feelings and taking advantage of them. Drew shoots Sebastian down and Audrey pretends to be grateful for his protection before taking up his gun. After Drew tries to attack Audrey, he is stopped by Morgan, who has meanwhile also sneaked into the gun room, by throwing a cannonball at him. Audrey implies that she will kill Drew and even pulls the trigger on the gun from which she previously removed the magazine. Drew is arrested and Sebastian survived thanks to a safety vest; the trio leaves the location.
Sebastian gives Morgan his phone, which cannot be located, so she can call her parents and give them a sign of life; Like the times before, they follow the news about the adventures of the two young women with excitement. During the call, Morgan receives a call from Sebastian's boss who wants to inform him that the suspension has been lifted. Morgan asks for a spy job again while Audrey and Sebastian kiss just a few miles away.
A year later, the two women celebrate Audrey's birthday again - this time in Japan. The party is bogus, however, and it is revealed that Audrey and Morgan are on a mission to stop a group of Japanese gangsters who now work as real spies.
production
The Spy Who Dumped Me (English for "The spy who broke up with me") plays in its title on the James Bond film James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me (original title The Spy Who Loved Me ) on.
Directed by Susanna Fogel , who wrote the screenplay for the film together with David Iserson . It stars Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon and plays Audrey and Morgan. The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Michael Schernthaner and the dialogue direction by Axel Malzacher on behalf of RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. Anja Stadlober speaks Audrey in the German version.
The film was shot in various European capitals. The interior shots were taken in Budapest in summer 2017 , further shots in Amsterdam , Prague , downtown Vienna and Berlin , where the film was shot in September 2017, including in Monbijoupark . Recordings were also made in Denmark. Barry Peterson acted as cameraman .
The score was composed by Tyler Bates . The recording was made in Spring 2018 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
A first trailer for the film was presented at the end of March 2018. The film was released in US cinemas on August 3, 2018 and in German cinemas on August 30, 2018. The film premiered on July 25, 2018 in Los Angeles.
reception
Age rating
In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film works with typical genre elements and overdrafts, comes up with clear good-bad drawings, slapstick-like moments and comic situations, but also with some very powerful action and fight scenes. The speed of the action as well as the intensity and the cool cynicism of some depictions of violence can overwhelm children and young people under the age of 16. However, 16-year-olds can already decipher the genre mechanisms. ”In a criticism of the film by dpa , it is noted that the surprisingly violent action scenes are strangely unbalanced because large numbers of them are shot and impaled, strangled and extremely punched. Recounting US media had more deaths than in the most recent Mission Impossible , the dpa continued.
Reviews
Overall, the film received mixed feedback from the critics.
Birgit Roschy from epd Film explains that director Susanna Fogel embraces the clichés of the action and agent genre with an emphatic wink and also incorporates an unnecessary romantic ramification in the form of the spy Sebastian: “But if the two women have that conspiratorial intimacy, as they are between Developing best friends, acting out, you feel like you're in the wrong movie. So the fun is limited to a handful of scenes that stand out from the disparate plot with their wit and timing. "The film service sees the film as positive overall and writes:" The charm of the breathless comedy lies in its tendency towards the absurd joke with which the genre , but also world events are commented ironically. She also tells more about friendship between women than about espionage, which makes the plot more entertaining than other action thrillers. "
Awards
- Award for film comedy of the year
- Nomination for Film Star of the Year - Comedy Film ( Mila Kunis )
Web links
- Bad Spies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bad Spies in the German dubbing file
- The Spy Who Dumped Me - Official Film Website (English)
- Information about the film The Spy Who Dumped Me by crew united
- The Spy Who Dumped Me - Official Trailer from Lionsgate Movies on Youtube (Video, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Bad Spies . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 181001 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Bad Spies . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Bad Spies. In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
- ↑ Markus Trutt: "The Spy Who Dumped Me": Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are supposed to take on leading roles in the action comedy - Kino News - FILMSTARTS.de. In: filmstarts.de. March 18, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ^ Nia Daniels: Multiple European locations for The Spy Who Dumped Me. In: kftv.com. June 2, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Shooting of The Spy Who Dumped Me. In: locationaustria.at. September 1, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Mila Kunis shot in downtown Vienna! In: heute.at, August 28, 2017.
- ↑ Melanie Steck: Hollywood star Mila Kunis came to Berlin as a blonde - BZ Berlin. In: bz-berlin.de. September 2, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Tyler Bates Scoring Susanna Fogel's 'The Spy Who Dumped Me'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, April 16, 2018.
- ↑ Bad Spies: First trailer for the action comedy with Mila Kunis - PC Magazin. In: pc-magazin.de. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Anthony D'Alessandro: Mila Kunis Movie 'The Spy Who Dumped Me' To Open In August. In: deadline.com. December 22, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Patrick Shanley: Lionsgate Pushes Mila Kunis' 'The Spy Who Dumped Me' Release Date Back. In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 22, 2017.
- ↑ Start dates in Germany. In: insidekino.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2018 ; accessed on March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Dave McNary: Kate McKinnon, Mila Kunis at 'Spy Who Dumped Me' Premiere - Variety. In: variety.com. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ^ Reasons for approval for Bad Spies In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Accessed August 31, 2018.
- ↑ Action comedy: "Bad Spies" with Mila Kunis: Pretty much the best agents. In: www.stern.de. August 27, 2018, archived from the original on August 29, 2018 ; accessed on March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Bad Spies at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Bad Spies at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Review of Bad Spies In: epd Film, August 24, 2018.
- ^ Review of Bad Spies In: Filmdienst, August 24, 2018.
- ↑ Johnni Macke: People's Choice Awards 2018 Winners: The Complete List. In: eonline.com, November 11, 2018.