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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout
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Genre | Military & War |
Format | Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Anamorphic, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Mario Van Peebles, Clare Carey, Ron Livingston, Katrina Law, Yves Simoneau, Andrew Bryniarski, Douglas Spain, Alex Meneses, Dale Dye, Michael Madsen, J.E. Freeman, Oleg Taktarov, Tim Metcalfe, Ray Baker See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 43 minutes |
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Product Description
In North Hollywood on a calm summer day in 1997, fifty police officers were defenseless against two lone gunmen armed with AK 47 assault rifles and full military body armor. Only their extreme courage, valor and training put and end to the massacre inspiring a new motto for the L.A.P.D. - "The Day Willpower Beat Firepower." Based on the true story of the North Hollywood shootout.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 2.88 ounces
- Item model number : 2287763
- Director : Yves Simoneau
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Anamorphic, Widescreen, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 43 minutes
- Release date : December 16, 2003
- Actors : Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain, Andrew Bryniarski
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B0000DC3VL
- Writers : Tim Metcalfe
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #71,428 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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44 MINUTES is the story of the infamous "North Hollywood Shootout" which went down outside the Bank of America in North Hollywood in 1997. Two professional bank robbers, Emil (former UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov) and Larry (Andrew Bryniarski) walk into the bank just after it opens on a February morning, planning on being out with the loot in under eight minutes, which is the LAPD's normal response time to a robbery. Unfortunately for them, two police officers who happen to be driving by, crusty Vietnam vet Harris (Ray Baker) and his rookie partner Bobby (Douglas Spain) spot them going in, and call out the cavalry, including world-weary detective Frank McGregor (Madsen), deeply religious street cop Harry (Van Peebles) and troubled, edgy SWAT leader Donnie (Ron Livingston). When the robbers emerge, they find themselves confronted by 40 cops. But as the cops are about to discover, the advantage in numbers doesn't mean anything when the bad guys are packing AK-47s with 100-round magazines and wearing military-grade body armor from necks to knees. As Livingston's character quips, it's a question of "firepower vs. willpower"...and may the best men win.
If that sounds like a really truncated description of a movie, just keep in mind that 44 MINUTES is essentially the big gun battle in HEAT minus all the character moments, story arcs and, well, the plot. Although each of the good guy characters has a story-arc of sorts, the real character is the battle itself -- what happens when forty cops take on two robbers who are essentially on God mode with infinite ammo. It's about the combination of shock, horror, heroism and improvisation-under-fire that made this street fight one of the most notorious -- and in some ways, glorious -- cops vs. robbers battles in American history. And on that level it delivers. The dialogue is occasionally stilted and TV-moviesh, there is a cheesy moment of redemption for a Latino gangbanger at the end, and the documentary-style cuts occasionally ruin the suspense by letting us know that certain characters live to the end, but as a straightforward action flick, 44 MINUTES works well. Madsen, who has spent almost his entire career trying to struggle out of the dark shadow of Mr. Blonde, is surprisingly likeable as the burnt-out detective who rediscovers his passion for the job under fire, while Ray Baker is quite effective as the seen-it-all training officer who realizes he hasn't quite seen it all yet. Oleg Taktarov, one of the pioneer fighters of the UFC back in its "human cockfighting" days, is also unexpectedly good as a Romanian immigrant who is living a perverse, Tony Montana-style version of the American dream.
44 MINUTES is not the greatest movie you'll ever see; it's not even the greatest direct to video movie you'll ever see. But it more than hits the targets it sets for itself, and makes for 103 minutes of adrenaline-pumping action which has the added advantages of being both inspirational and exceeding the (very) modest expectations you probably had for it.
Most B-Class movies in my opinion are not worth watching, but the sypnosis for this film caught my attention. The action is great, the story captures your attention, and the coreography, special effects, characters, and everything else was really well done.
I just wish that the movie lasted longer.
The cops who faced down AK-47s with .38s and shotguns WERE heroes, no two ways about it. If you can't accept that, move to France.
This is one of the best made for TV cop movies ever made. Well acted, authentic, and semi-documentary without being stiff or unimaginative.