Straight Shooter (1999)

People are voting emotionally.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Fantastic!

Straight Shooter is a very good film that has a good cast which includes Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Hannelore Hoger, Ulrich Mühe, Jürgen Schornagel, Bernhard Bettermann, Maximillian Beckmann, Bianca Brad, Georg Blumreiter, Klaus Czizek, Walter Gontermann, Holger von Hartlieb, Stefan Hunstein, Nadine Klante, and Nicole Leòn. The acting by all of these actors is very good. Hopper is really excellent in this film. I thought that he performed good. I couldn't help but laugh at the dubbing! The thrills is really good and some of it is surprising. The movie is filmed very good. The music is good. The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end. This is a very good and thrilling film. If you Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Hannelore Hoger, Ulrich Mühe, Jürgen Schornagel, Bernhard Bettermann, Maximillian Beckmann, Bianca Brad, Georg Blumreiter, the rest of the cast in the film, Action, Thrillers, Mystery, Dramas, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!

Surprise, surprise. It seems as if with Thomas Bohn there is a german writer/director to watch. The movie may have some flaws and inconsistencies, but looking at lots of terrible other german movies, this is a real milestone. Usually german movies are not that entertaining, look at another failed attempt to create a thriller, Dominik Graf´s "Die Sieger", which more and more became a kind of drama during it´s running time. This one has a cool look, great cinematography and editing, and fine actors like Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch (who really looks like Bruce Willis) and Katja Flint. Some points of the story are not very believable, but still this is the only german thriller that has a professional look and feel and thats a lot more than most of the german movies have.

A German action movie, partially based on "First Blood" - this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. SPOILER WARNING: the rest of my comment contains several spoilers! "Straight Shooter" is the nickname of an ex-legionnaire from Germany who is trying to blackmail the government. In order to achieve that he assassinates various German politicians. However, a German terrorist does not ask for money, of course! No, he wants to force the government to turn off a particular nuclear power plant. He used to live next to it and believes that this is why his little daughter got cancer and died. As a consequence of that his wife committed suicide. Since the authorities are unable to stop his killings, they want to enlist the help of his former trainer in the French foreign legion, played by DENNIS HOPPER (the relationship between Hopper and the killer is somewhat like the one between Col. Trautman and Rambo in "First Blood"). The guy is now a pimp in London and the movie opens with him beating up his girl-friend because she just told him that she is pregnant. At this point two "federal agents" from the states approach Hopper, asking him to go to Germany. Obviously Hopper was the only American actor they had. The "agent" who speaks does that with a distinctive German accent. Hopper goes to Germany to help the authorities hunt down his former trainee. There he meets the "Oberstaatsanwaeltin" ("Chief District Attorney") - an attractive young woman who looks hardly old enough to be out of law school. Hopper's first question is whether she'd like to have sex with him. You might think, how stupid, a woman like that must be able to get something better than an aged pimp, but believe it or not, before that movie is over, she does have sex with him. Obviously the director fell in love with a beautifully looking 19th century public swimming pool and therefore decided to shoot part of this film there. Unfortunately the script does not call for a swimming pool. So they let out the water, put a few desks into the empty pool and called the whole thing the "police headquarters"! The movie continues to be boring, unrealistic and full of inconsistencies. E.g. the so called "Chief District Attorney" throws up when she sees two dead bodies - like someone in that position hasn't seen plenty already. In the end the police have trapped the killer in a building, but he gets out having put on the uniform and helmet of a cop - seems the screenwriter has not only seen "First Blood", but also "Leon, the Professional". The funny part is, that Hopper, who is waiting on the other side of the street, spots his former protégé amongst hundreds of cops dressed the same way the minute he exits the building. So Hopper grabs a gun and shoots the killer from behind - you can see this from his POV, including the target. The latter suggests that Hopper actually aims at his sit-upon - and that's the end of the movie....

STRAIGHT SHOOTER is a straight forward movie in a way, we all have seen in the German TATORT TV-series before. Director Thomas Bohn did well and tried to get a deeper inside view of a human killer (the Straight Shooter - Dennis Hopper as Frank Hector gave him this name but I still don't know why, did I miss a line?). Dennis Hopper is minimized to a very cool character (sorry for him) and Heino Ferch as Shooter could become a real German Bruce Willis - he should just have spoken a bit more! Thanx to Producer Joseph Vilsmaier for getting away from stupid German comedies and at least try to make a straight forward German thriller!