Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan konnte Kennedy nicht retten, aber er ist entschlossen, einen cleveren Attentäter nicht diesen Präsidenten ausschalten zu lassen.Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan konnte Kennedy nicht retten, aber er ist entschlossen, einen cleveren Attentäter nicht diesen Präsidenten ausschalten zu lassen.Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan konnte Kennedy nicht retten, aber er ist entschlossen, einen cleveren Attentäter nicht diesen Präsidenten ausschalten zu lassen.
- Für 3 Oscars nominiert
- 2 Gewinne & 17 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Harry Sargent
- (as Fred Dalton Thompson)
- Matt Wilder
- (as Greg Alan-Williams)
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The film is consistently enjoyable, and it delivers all the goods - suspense, action, romance, and drama - all in their proper amounts. It's a fun film that is really helped by the great actors in it!
Malkovich, Eastwood and Rene Russo all give wonderful performances in this top notch thriller. The direction is excellent and the entire picture is charged with tension and intrigue throughout.
A must see for thriller fans 8/10
Excuse me?? Horrigan's entire job, all his training and his sanctimonious talk, is geared to protecting the President, who gets volumes of death threats. But when an attack happens, Frank "couldn't believe it." Instead of Dallas being a wake-up call, telling him he's in the wrong line of work, he stubbornly stays on the job, ultimately becoming the insubordinate (read: antihero) old cuss we meet 30 years later.
He is also predatory, not only with his partner (Dylan McDermott), whom he begs and bullies to get what he wants, but with a colleague, Lily (Rene Russo), whose attraction to him can only be explained by the need for a love interest for Eastwood, who is even given jazz chops in this movie, lest we forget who we're watching and start thinking Frank is a fictional character. The movie could have been cut by twenty minutes, and been more amusing, if Lily had sparred rather than slept with him.
John Malkovich is memorable as Leary, the villain aiming to assassinate the current President, and Wolfgang Peterson and his able DP John Bailey capture him from every angle and plenty of close-ups. Leary's phone chats with Horrigan are riveting because of Leary's dialog, which actually generates anti-government sympathy: he was well-trained as a killer by the feds, and apparently well paid, too (he self-funds his assassination plot, once dropping $50G without batting an eye). Meanwhile, all Frank does during these calls is growl, threaten, and swear.
It's an intricately structured movie, cleverly manipulating the plot to deliver some very close encounters, including a rooftop death scene that is meaningfully filmed. The showdown scene in the glass elevator where Frank says "Aim high" works nicely, too, but the ending is standard nick-of-time Hollywood, triggered when Frank has a sudden insight into the when-and-where of Leary's plot.
It's a well-made film, start to finish, but seriously flawed by Frank's character, who they don't bother to make admirable or credible, let alone alluring. Just never let us forget that he's Clint Eastwood.
holds her own as partner (and love interest) Lilly Raines. But the movie's
greatness rests on the shoulders of John Malkovich as "Booth". He captures
this character's rage and hatred, as well as his humanity oddly enough.
Personally I think this was his best performance and should have received an
Oscar for it (But I loved Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive as well that year). Overall a great movie to see you want to peek into an assassin's mind and be
on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Enjoy!!
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- WissenswertesThe 62-year old Clint Eastwood (with the help of a safety belt) actually did hang six stories above the ground on the ledge scene, although stuntmen did the jump and the fall onto the fire escape.
- PatzerLilly's gown during the party scene would be inappropriate for a female Secret Service agent, as it would prevent her from performing her duties should there be an attempt on the President's life. In those situations female agents instead wear dress pants and more practical shoes. (With the gown, there is also the problem of where to hide the service weapon.)
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Frank Horrigan: [over the phone] I want you to give yourself up.
Mitch Leary: So I can live a long and fruitful life?
Frank Horrigan: Oh, we can work something out.
Mitch Leary: [laughs] Jesus, Frank, don't fucking lie to me. I have a rendezvous with death, and so does the President, and so do you, Frank, if you get too close to me.
Frank Horrigan: You have a rendezvous with my ass, motherfucker!
- Alternative VersionenThe original UK cinema and video releases were cut by 8 secs (10 secs for video) by the BBFC to heavily edit shots of Al being suffocated with a plastic bag, some bloody gunshot impacts, Sally's head being beaten against a wall, and to remove the neck-breaks of Sally's flatmate. The cuts were fully waived in 2008 for the Blu-ray.
- VerbindungenEdited into In the Line of Fire: The Ultimate Sacrifice (2000)
- SoundtracksWillow Weep For Me
Written by Ann Ronell
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Offizieller Standort
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- Die zweite Chance
- Drehorte
- Biltmore Hotel - 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(as hotel in Denver)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 40.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 102.314.823 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 15.269.388 $
- 11. Juli 1993
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 176.997.168 $
- Laufzeit
- 2 Std. 8 Min.(128 min)
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.39 : 1