44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
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"On 28 February 1997, two men heavily armed with AK-47 try to heist the Bank of America of North Hollywood, but their plan fails and they are kept under siege by the LAPD. Along forty-four minutes, Los Angeles witnesses live on television one of the greatest shoot-out of the American history. Based on a true event, this movie impresses regarding the scenes of intense shoot-out, with the cast having also great performances. However, the statements of the characters, showing the LAPD as a brotherhood or family, do not seem to correspond to the reality showed in other police stories in American m..."
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Some statistics:
- Number of location shooting days: 24
- Number of cameras used: 8
- Number of extras used: 900
- Number of real LAPD Officers used as extras: 35
- Number of rounds of blank ammunition fired: 40,000
- Number of bullet hole squibs used: 5,000
- Number of blood squibs used: 100-150
- Amount of theatrical blood used: 10 gallons
- Number of police cars destroyed: 30
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After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.