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Schutzengel

  • 2012
  • 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
4.5K
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Schutzengel (2012)
ActionCrimeDramaThriller

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.

  • Director
    • Til Schweiger
  • Writers
    • Stephen Butchard
    • Paul Maurice
    • Til Schweiger
  • Stars
    • Numan Acar
    • Volker Albers
    • Loyd Bateman
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    4.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Til Schweiger
    • Writers
      • Stephen Butchard
      • Paul Maurice
      • Til Schweiger
    • Stars
      • Numan Acar
      • Volker Albers
      • Loyd Bateman
    • 14User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Numan Acar
    Numan Acar
    • TV Reporter Türkei
    Volker Albers
    • TV Reporter RTL
    Loyd Bateman
    Loyd Bateman
    • Shooter 12
    Gode Benedix
    • Krankenpfleger
    Moritz Bleibtreu
    Moritz Bleibtreu
    • Rudi
    Rainer Bock
    Rainer Bock
    • Karl Falkner
    Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen
    Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen
    • Leo's Frau
    Nicolais Borger
    • Falkners Tochter 2
    Vanessa Bühler
    • Angestellte Supermarkt
    Nina Eichinger
    • TV Reporterin N-TV
    Matthias Fornoff
    • Nachrichtensprecher ZDF
    Wanja Götz
    • Shooter 10
    Marcel Graf
    • Shooter 13
    Matthias Günther
    • Shooter 6
    Carsten Hädler
    • TV Reporter N24
    Teresa Harder
    Teresa Harder
    • Krankenschwester 1
    Mickey Hardt
    Mickey Hardt
    • Falscher Polizist 2
    Ralph Herforth
    Ralph Herforth
    • Streifenpolizist 1
    • Director
      • Til Schweiger
    • Writers
      • Stephen Butchard
      • Paul Maurice
      • Til Schweiger
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    User reviews14

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    4kosmasp

    Great sound and editing

    Another reviewer wrote that Til S. knows what he's doing. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the fact, that he's casting his daughter in every movie he's in (German movie that is), the last couple of years. Will Smith seems to be doing the same thing in America, so you can't blame him for that. You also should consider the sound effects and the way the action scenes are shot. He knows how to copy Hollywood and make it believable in a German setting (movie wise that is, not that this is close to any reality in Germany).

    But when it comes to story and character, this is as weak as they come. Casting Moritz Bleibtreu in this seems almost unnecessary. Not casting actual action performers from Germany is a real omission (Mathis Landwehr to name one!)! Acting also doesn't help, especially Schweigers daughter is off (but if you've seen the other movies you knew that). That won't change the fact, that anything Schweiger touches turns into gold (or at least German box office gold)
    1bren-t-mgr

    Germany, please!

    Der Untergang, Das Boot and few others are very excellent German movies. This is a 2hours 12minutes of pure garbage! Fast Forward pleeeaaase.... Deutschland uberalles, please, just play Soccer, invade Poland, Russia and all, make excellent weapons or provoke World War III, not this!
    1vikpk

    Only the introduction is interesting, the rest is painful to watch

    Except the weird humor here and there this movie is as bland as they come. Extreme shootouts followed by long and repetitive quasi-philosophical conversations numb the viewer to the genre. There are a number of tense moments which you couldn't care less as to how they are resolved. The bad guys are way too bad, the good guys are way too (allegedly) good. The flick is predictive, moralizing, woke, and, no, Germany is not a free country (in response to the girls when she answers "This is a free country" to one of the characters asking her for the remote.) Also too many guns in a German movie while in Germany you need permission from the state to own a BB-gun. Unrealistic even for its stated tribute to Afghanistan veterans. How is this flick a tribute to the veterans remained a mystery to me.
    3Karl Self

    Til Schweiger isn't the German answer to Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris is an inferior rip-off of Til Schweiger. Although Chuck Norris started his career before Til Schweiger. But then Til Schweiger decided to change the course of time itself. So there.

    What Til and Chuck do have in common, though, is that they both can be entertaining actors, for those good, old kick-back-with-a-beer movies that you shouldn't mention when you're trying to impress a classy chick. They serve, they entertain, they kick ass. However, they don't possess the powers of irony. If you let them produce, write, direct, act and cast their own daughter, then you're in for a long, dark ride. While he was at it, Til Schweiger might as well have called this movie "Til Schweiger Saves The World And All Chicks Want Him". As it was, he strangely limited himself to "Guardian Angel". But the action scenes are a lot of fun. Five mercenaries with automatic rifles blaze into a room with Til Schweiger in it. An unequal fight ensues, and a bad day for the mercenaries begins. Til tilts his gat gangsta style and wastes them all while bullets, plaster and human debris swirl through the air in slo-motion like birds through the rain-forest in Powanisqatsi. Beautiful to watch. My advice would be to simply fast forward to the next, beautifully photographed action scene. Because when the last bad guy has been wasted, Til Schweiger begins to talk, and that means serving up platitudes with a tightened jawbone. If you save another soldier's life, you see, you get a friendship bracelet. And Til could wear a different friendship bracelet "every day of the week". That made me worry about the Bundeswehr.

    With a more ironic script, this movie would have been enjoyable in a dumb way. As it is, it's a potpourri of Hollywood action movies from the last 30 years.
    10yankeedoo

    Love it

    Grt movie watching right now fifth time as nowt on here in UK

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    Storyline

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    • Goofs
      Whenever a police siren is heard, it sounds like an American-style siren. However, this kind of siren is used nowhere in Germany.
    • Connections
      Features The Town (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Feel Again
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      Written by Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle, Andrew Brown and Noel Zancanella

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 2012 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Germany)
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Russian
      • Turkish
    • Also known as
      • Янгол-охоронець
    • Filming locations
      • Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Barefoot Films
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Budget
      • €7,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,530,346
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 10m(130 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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