German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There, frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert. Together they hunt down the terrorists.
Wenn ein Vater rot sieht..., Das Rattennest - Wenn ein Vater rot sieht..., The Rescue, Les otages de la terreur, Terrorista, Отмъщението на бащата, the Rescue
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Dad goes after the terrorists who have his daughter.
Good guy basketball coach who is all about fair play and following the rules goes to save his daughter and along the way yells a lot and learns to be cruel to get things done.
Dull.
German terrorists kidnap basketball coach Brian Dennehy's daughter. When the government won't help, Dennehy travels to Germany to get the job done himself. After a LOT of talking. Dullsville.
“It doesn’t matter. Sometimes the innocent suffer, just like your daughter.”
A fundamentally dry political thriller TV movie programmer boasting fine performances and on-location (Germany) action. Nothing particularly gang-busters here, as it steers towards dramatic tension, verbose conversations and character pathos before going in all guns blazing for its climatic payoff.
Two American parents, Paul and Anne Hobart travel to Germany when their stewardess daughter is kidnapped by home grown terrorists. She along with other flight crew members are being used as bargaining tools for the release of two prisoners.
The script does go down a predictable path. The ins and outs of political red tape getting in the way. There’s a good hour of built up frustration, hopelessness and…
Like a great number of the more dutiful denizens of Dennehy county, I humbly consider his exciting 1988 offering from the charismatic, much loved character actor to be one of Dennehy's very best! This pacy, above average revenge thriller has angered patriarch, Paul Hobart (Brian Dennehy) desperately taking the law into his own hands when his only daughter, Karen (Helen Patton) is held hostage by increasingly murderous leftist terrorists in Frankfurt, Germany. Acting alongside the burly Dennehy is a juicy-looking, Joanna Cassidy, an oleaginous, Ron Silver, and, Anthony 'Callan' Valentine is on especially menacing, fleet-fisted form as stilleto cool, ex-SAS operative Vickers. Herzfeld's gritty, pulse-quickening drama 'A Father's Revenge' remains a compelling 80s Euro-thriller!!!! The darker than expected tone, moody cityscapes and sporadic brutality lend an additional gravitas to Herzfeld's gripping, far from humdrum 80s TV Movie! The agreeably synth heavy soundtrack is by notable German film composer, Klaus Doldinger.
diversity win! the courier is a lesbian terrorist! (sarcasm for those who don't get it)
ANYWAY vickers is all but toby meres 20 years on. thank god for it but the glacial pace was the worst part of this
I accidentally grabbed the wrong dvd from library but decided to watch one of the cheesy films. A B-movie seemingly made on video with video produced credits. It’s about a US flight crew taken hostage in Germany by terrorists and the father of the stewardess won’t wait any longer! Mediocre acting, a cheesy motor bike stunt, a horrible wig, and a less than meh final shoot out. It has an 80s synth score and Ron Fucking Silver! (3 out of 10) (R)
And if you thought Costa-Gavras' Missing would've been a cooler movie if Jack Lemmon, you know, whupped some ass...well then here is a movie for you.
In which Brian Dennehy takes it upon himself to travel to Germany and get all hands on when East German terrorists kidnap his flight attendant daughter and hold her captive in exchange for the release of bla bla bla...
"Ron Silver also stars..."
It is what it is. But, all things considered, I guess it gets the job done well enough. John Herzfeld's to-the-point directorial style insures that it certainly resembles a standard action programmer from the period.
It gets away with a lot, I guess, because Brian Dennehy is a good actor with…
