Wild card (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild card |
| Original title | Wild card |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | Theatrical Version: 92 minutes Extended Cut: 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 (Theatrical Version) FSK 18 (Extended Cut) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Simon West |
| script | William Goldman |
| production | Steve Chasman |
| music | Dario Marianelli |
| camera | Shelly Johnson |
| cut | Padraic McKinley, Thomas J. Nordberg |
| occupation | |
Wild Card is an American crime - thriller by Simon West from the year 2015 with Jason Statham in the lead role.
action
The player and alcoholic Nick Wild has made his way in Las Vegas (“5000 days in the desert”) as a bodyguard and casual jobber for more than ten years . At Roxy's diner, he dreams of a sailing boat near Corsica , but he never gets enough money for the trip.
When Nick's friend, the hostess Holly, ends up seriously injured in the hospital around Christmas, she asks Nick to find the men who did this to her at the Golden Nugget hotel. After hesitating at first, because he suspects that organized crime has something to do with it, Nick agrees. After a tip from another friend, Millicent, who works as a maid at the “Golden Nugget”, Nick pretends to be the envoy of the hotel owner “Baby”. He finds the gangster Danny who raped and tortured Holly in his luxury suite. Nick overpowers him and his two bodyguards by using his credit cards as weapons for throwing and cutting, ties up all three and fetches Holly. She pulls out a pair of secateurs and threatens Danny with castration in the presence of his people. Danny cries and buys himself off with $ 50,000. Back on the road, Nick and Holly share the money, and Holly leaves town.
Nick heads for the casino immediately. There is still Nick's customer Cyrus, a very rich, reserved young man who had hired Nick as a tourist guide and bodyguard for Las Vegas, but was left sitting in the casino by Nick. Nick plays blackjack , has a lucky streak and wins $ 500,000 - enough money to make his dream come true. Shortly before the withdrawal desk, however, he turns around and tells Cyrus that with a million he would never have to go back to Las Vegas. So he wagered all of his chips and Danny's $ 25,000 in the last game and lost. Frustrated, he gets drunk at the bar with Cyrus. Cyrus wants to learn from him to live without fear. Nick refuses. The next morning a couple of Danny's henchmen show up and Nick beat them all up.
A little later, Nick is quoted as saying to the mafia boss and hotel owner "Baby" - Danny had complained to him. "Baby" lets Nick and Danny share their versions of the argument, and it quickly becomes clear that Danny is lying. His claim that Nick shot his bodyguards in his hotel suite could not be correct as Nick never picked up a gun. It becomes apparent that Danny hand-shot the two bodyguards who witnessed his humiliation. Nick is allowed to go unmolested.
He meets in the diner with Cyrus, who wants to give him $ 500,000 and a plane ticket to Corsica for his services. Nick knows, however, that Danny isn't done with him yet. This appears shortly afterwards with numerous henchmen. Cyrus plays a drunk, dances and sings on the table. With this distraction, Nick manages to escape through the back door. He ambushes Danny and his people in the courtyard and kills them all with a fish knife.
In the final scene, Cyrus forces Nick the $ 500,000 and the plane ticket. The two men want to remain friends. Nick leaves Las Vegas.
Cast and dubbing
The German-language synchronization of the film was made by Neue Tonfilm Munich . The author of the dialogue book was Dominik Auer , who also worked as a dialogue director.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wild | Jason Statham | Leon Boden |
| Cyrus Kinnick, software millionaire | Michael Angarano | Tim Schwarzmaier |
| Holly, hostess , Nick's ex-girlfriend | Dominik García-Lorido | Angela Wiederhut |
| Danny DeMarco, gangster | Milo Ventimiglia | Oliver Mink |
| Cassandra, croupière | Hope Davis | Carin C. Tietze |
| Roxy, waitress | Anne Heche | Solveig Duda |
| Millicent, housekeeping employee of the "Golden Nugget" |
Daviena McFadden | Sandra Schwittau |
| Osgood, Nick's client | Max Casella | Christian Weygand |
| DD, friend of the client | Sofia Vergara | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Baby, mafia boss | Stanley Tucci | Lutz Mackensy |
| Pinky, lawyer | Jason Alexander | Hans-Rainer Müller |
background
The film is a remake of Heat - Nick the Killer from 1986, then starring Burt Reynolds .
reception
“The second film adaptation of William Goldman's novel“ Heat ”also sends a bodyguard on a campaign of revenge against a sadistic mafioso. Instead of leading a peaceful life in Corsica, he struggles with the men who battered his former lover. Aside from the actual plot, the film treats itself to clever digressions, unusual in current genre cinema, which sketch the inner workings of the main character and the glittering metropolis Las Vegas in a strikingly sober way. Instead, the production revels in the occasional rather vain staging gimmick, but largely dispenses with action. "
“The character study enriched with brutal action sequences, if you can call it that, fails. It stays too much on the surface. Acting greats like Stanley Tucci and Sofia Vergara, promised on the movie poster, can only be seen briefly. Even their “guest appearances” do not make the 90-minute trip to the city of sins any more bearable. Only the coherent camera work and the neat retro soundtrack distract from the mediocre main line of the narrative at times. "
GIGA magazine finds the “story and characters too lame”, while “the action is too sparse and conventional”.
Filmstarts, on the other hand, gives the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and comes to the conclusion: Atmospheric player drama meets [...] uncompromising Jason Statham beating film - an unexpectedly well-functioning combination. "
Web links
- Wild Card in the online film database
- Wild Card in the German dubbing index
- Wild Card in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Wild Card atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Wild Card atMetacritic(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Wild Card . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2014 (PDF; theatrical version).
- ↑ Release certificate for Wild Card . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; Extended Cut).
- ↑ Synchronous database : Wild Card. In: German synchronous card index . Accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Wild Card (2015) on filmdienst.de, accessed on December 31, 2019
- ↑ "Wild Card": See Las Vegas and forget it at diepresse.com, accessed on December 31, 2019
- ↑ Jan-Thilo Caesar: Wild Card - Critique. In: giga.de . January 29, 2015, accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ^ Christoph Petersen: Wild Card - Critique of the Filmstarts editors. In: film starts . Accessed December 31, 2019 .