Flammen am Horizont

Originaltitel: Wrong Is Right

1982
16
1 Std. 57 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

2367

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Sean Connery in Flammen am Horizont (1982)

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1 Video

54 Fotos

Satire Comedy Drama Thriller

Ein Fernsehreporter findet sich inmitten eines arabischen Führers wieder, der zwei tragbare Atomwaffen kauft, Terroristen, Waffenhändler, ein Reporter/CIA-Spion wird getötet, ein US-Präsiden... Alles lesenEin Fernsehreporter findet sich inmitten eines arabischen Führers wieder, der zwei tragbare Atomwaffen kauft, Terroristen, Waffenhändler, ein Reporter/CIA-Spion wird getötet, ein US-Präsident bestellt eine K-I-L-L usw.Ein Fernsehreporter findet sich inmitten eines arabischen Führers wieder, der zwei tragbare Atomwaffen kauft, Terroristen, Waffenhändler, ein Reporter/CIA-Spion wird getötet, ein US-Präsident bestellt eine K-I-L-L usw.

Regie
- Richard Brooks
Drehbuch
- Charles McCarry
- Richard Brooks
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

2367

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Richard Brooks
Drehbuch
- Charles McCarry
- Richard Brooks
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Benutzerrezensionen34

Ausgewählte Rezension

5/10

Eerily Predicts A Lot

Wrong Is Right (1982)

Plot In A Paragraph: The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale (Connery) on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.

This is a movie that does not know what it wants to be. It's more than a bit of a mess. It tries to be a political satire, nuclear disaster movie, a paranoid thriller and it fails at being any.

It's not without its moments Leslie Nielsen advising the president by saying "Hit them hard, hit them with everything you got!! Just don't hit those oil wells" and seeing Connery take off his toupee and toss it to one side is another highlight. How many leading men would have the balls to do that?? Connery was never bothered by his hair, and whilst he never wore one away from the cameras, he wore hair pieces in some movies and didn't in others. An admirable trait, that he is that comfortable with himself.

Where it succeeds is being eerily accurate about future events. Islamic terrorism, media bias, reality television and government conspiracy. Connery remains as watchable as always but these are two of his worse hours. Released about 20 years to soon, the movie totally went over the heads of the audiences and flopped so badly in America, the studio changed the title in other markets to The Man With The Deadly Lens and ordered new artwork to make it look more like a Bond movie.

Wrong Is Right grossed $3 million at the domestic box office.

Wissenswertes
This movie has been said to have possibly anticipated future world events. James Plath at "DVD Town" said of this movie that, "it's impossible to watch it more than twenty years later without seeing a ton of eerie similarities to the Bush White House", while Paul McElligott at "Celluloid Heroes" wrote: "The idea of the U.S. going to war in the Middle East over dubious claims of terrorists possessing weapons of mass destruction, specifically atomic bombs, is central to the plot. The discovery of the aforementioned bombs dangling from an antenna on top of the World Trade Center is probably far more chilling now than the filmmakers could ever have intended."

Patzer
Obvious stunt double in place of Sean Connery in the opening skydiving sequence.

Zitate
Philindros: I'll disarm the other bomb.
Patrick Hale: Just in the nick of time.
Philindros: Yep.
Patrick Hale: Convenient.
Philindros: Oh, I'd say lucky.
Patrick Hale: I thought for a while, the CIA had... arranged the suitcases. Like King Awad's suicide.
Philindros: Mr. Hale, we only try to do what's right.
Patrick Hale: Even when it's wrong?
Philindros: If it's good for America, it can't be wrong. Right?
Patrick Hale: What's next?
President Lockwood: [Scene cuts to Oval Office] War!

Crazy Credits
Filmed in New York, Washington, D.C., Texas, New Mexico, France, Italy and Hagreb. [Hagreb is a fictional country featured in the movie, and France and Italy appear only in archive footage.]

Alternative Versionen
The UK video release versions entitled "The Man with the Deadly Lens" were cut first by 2 seconds, then re-released cut by 7 seconds to reduce footage of a bomb being made from a light bulb. However, the DVD released in 2004 entitled "Wrong is Right" is uncut.