Thr3e
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Thr3e (Thr3e - In a moment you'll be dead; DVD title) |
| Original title | Thr3e |
| Country of production | USA , Poland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robby Henson |
| script | Alan B. McElroy |
| production |
Joe Goodman , Bobby Neutz , Ralph Winter |
| music | David Bergeaud |
| camera | Sebastian Milaszewski |
| cut | Anuree De Silva |
| occupation | |
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Thr3e is an American thriller from director Robby Henson from the year 2006 . It is based on a novel by Ted Dekker .
action
Jennifer Peters works as a police psychologist and has written a book about serial killers . The so-called puzzle killer doesn't like this. He calls Jennifer and tells her that her brother Roy will die in 90 seconds. Jennifer follows the clues and finds Roy in the car with a bomb, but can no longer prevent the explosion.
Three months later, theology student Kevin Parsons, who was working on his doctoral thesis on the nature of evil, received a call from the mystery killer while driving. This gives him a task: “What breaks in, but never breaks in? What breaks, but never enters? ”Kevin jumps out of the car just in time before it explodes. When the police investigate the case, Jennifer's interest is piqued.
A little later, Kevin receives another threat. He drives to his aunt Balinda's house and tries in vain to save the dog that accompanied him in his childhood; the doghouse explodes. When Kevin returns to his apartment, he meets Samantha Sheer, his childhood friend. She recognizes the solution to the first riddle: night and day. The insurance detective also takes the book with her in which the murderer hid a cell phone. Then there is the next bomb. This time Kevin's fellow student Henry is affected, on whose forehead there is a reference to the Bible passage Romans 6:23 EU , which deals with death as the wages of sin. The police can remove the bomb from Henry's body in time.
Little by little, Kevin remembers a boy who used to watch him and Sam before Kevin locked him up in a warehouse. When Kevin comes home, the leaves of his doctoral thesis fly through the apartment. In the refrigerator he finds a television that the murderer uses to report back. This time there are 30 minutes left for the puzzle: “What gets you away, but basically nowhere?” Kevin also confesses his guilt on television, but that's not enough. Together with Sam, he finds out that a bus on 3rd Avenue is threatened. The two manage to save all passengers.
Jennifer is now visiting Aunt Balinda. She realizes that Balinda locked both her husband Eugene and her son Billy for years and isolated them from the real world. Kevin suffered from it too. Jennifer and her colleagues investigate the warehouse and find a bloody jacket. Sam visits Kevin, who is now in a hotel, and warns him about Jennifer. In front of the room door, the riddle killer leaves a tape with a message that names an empty building and the number 33369, a reference to the warehouse. Before Jennifer gets to the hotel, Kevin and Sam have already driven to the warehouse.
There Sam sees a wall full of enigmatic terms before she is locked up by the killer. When Kevin then enters the building, he finds a bomb. He can't prevent the explosion, but he can save himself with Sam. A little later, Jennifer arrives. Since the puzzle killer insisted not to involve the police, Kevin refuses to cooperate, even when Jennifer announces that she is no longer a police officer.
Another threat points to a house on fire and midnight. Kevin realizes that his aunt is in danger and drives to her house. He remembers being abused by Balinda as a child. Meanwhile, Sam notices that Kevin's handwriting matches that of the murderer and calls Jennifer, who found only one footprint in the warehouse. Sam explains that she has currently never met the boy from the past, whom Kevin suspects to be the perpetrator. In addition, the puzzles suggest opposites such as day and night. From all of this, the two women conclude that Kevin has a split personality and that the killer is his evil half.
Kevin finds his aunt tied up in a basement. The killer introduces himself as Slater and demands that he kill Balinda. Sam arrives and watches the two men. When Jennifer finally arrives, she sees Kevin holding a gun to his head and talking to invisible people. She realizes that she has never seen Sam and that Kevin wants to kill the evil within himself. With a reference to his doctoral thesis, Jennifer can finally convince Kevin that Sam and Slater are only products of his imagination. These disappear when Kevin sees the truth. A hot dog seller who Jennifer met on her way to see Roy is revealed to be a puzzle killer . He was annoyed that Kevin was copying him.
Three months later, Jennifer visits Kevin in a clinic. She now understands that Kevin invented Sam and Slater as the embodiment of good and evil.
background
The psychological thriller was shot in Łódź . It had its free TV premiere on RTL on July 4, 2009. The film was marketed on DVD under the title Thr3e - Immediately you are dead .
criticism
The thriller received mostly moderate reviews. The unoriginal plot , the cheap setting and the predictable ending were particularly criticized . Yahoo Livestyle describes the film as a "pretty predictable" and "little surprise little hash-me game". cinema judges harder: “Alle 8ung! This botch requires firm belief. ”The lexicon of international films rated the thriller as“ dull, plagiaristic in its proximity to David Fincher's Seven ”.
Web links
- Thr3e in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ abrauchen.de ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ yahoo Livestyle ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cinema , online edition
- ↑ Thr3e in the lexicon of international film , accessed 14 April 2012
