Vehicle 19

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Movie
German title Vehicle 19
Original title Vehicle 19
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mukunda Michael Dewil
script Mukunda Michael Dewil
production Forefront Media Group,
The Safran Company
music Daniel Matthee,
James Matthes
camera Miles Goodall
cut Megan Gill
occupation

Vehicle 19 is a 2013 action film directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil . It was shot in Johannesburg , South Africa . The premiere was on February 7, 2013 in Bahrain . The film was released in Japan on February 27 and in Germany on March 7. In the USA the film was released in a limited version on June 14, 2013 .

All camera perspectives are taken from the vehicle. From the outside you can only see the car as a reflection in a glass facade and in the very last scene when the camera moves away from the vehicle.

action

The American ex-inmate Michael Woods wants to visit his wife in Johannesburg. At the airport, the rental company assigns him vehicle number 19, which is not his desired model, but Woods accepts this.

While driving through Johannesburg, he finds a cell phone and a gun. A call on his cell phone tells him that two vehicles have been mixed up and that he should come to an address to exchange vehicles. On the way there he finds the tied public prosecutor Shabangu in the trunk. She tells him an outrageous story about corrupt cops and their kidnapping, but Woods doesn't want anything to do with it. When they are shot at at the meeting point and are able to flee, he believes her and wants to help her.

Woods drives to the embassy where his wife is staying. He can prevent her kidnapping, but the prosecutor is shot. She makes an audio recording with all the backgrounds about the corrupt police officers, which is to be handed over to a judge. Shortly afterwards, she succumbs to her injuries.

Woods has the car repainted to avoid being discovered by the police immediately. But after a short time he was found and followed by several police cars and a helicopter. He reaches the courthouse where the wanted judge works. Since the police have cordoned everything off and Woods cannot enter the building, he takes a television reporter hostage. One of the corrupt cops shoots him, but Woods is able to play the prosecutor's audio into the reporter's microphone.

In the last scene, it is announced on the radio that an American tourist had helped the police solve a corruption scandal.

synchronization

actor German speaker role
Paul Walker David Nathan Michael Woods
Naima McLean Sarah Riedel Rachel Shabangu (prosecutor)
Gys de Villiers Ingo Albrecht Detective Smith
Leyla Haidarian Susanne Geier Angelica Moore
Sizo Motsoko Philip Sweet Boy # 1

reception

Christian Horn von Filmstarts rated the film as a "narrative unclean, but thoroughly entertaining thriller" and awarded 3 out of 5 possible points.

According to the opinion of the kino.de editors, the film is “a thrilling game for a time that will take the audience's breath away. An exciting, action-packed and thrilling independent film [against the fascinating backdrop of South Africa] that does not require a large budget. "

The editorial team of Cinema is of the opinion, "The first thing that dies is logic, and then trust in the rest of the film, which almost exclusively takes place in the car."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Vehicle 19 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 207 V).
  2. ^ Vehicle 19. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ Film starts : Filmkritik , Christian Horn
  4. ↑ kino.de: film review
  5. ^ Cinema : film review