Well, this feature is exactly just what I expected. A taut, brutal french gangster film. I watched it with great pleasure, but that's all. Because it's too much predictable for me. You find here the scheme of the good gangster vs the bad ones. The hood who respects ethics against those who don't and take children as hostages. Here are some good action sequences and torture, the acting is acceptable and the characters, well...
Some are not so foreseeable. For instance Kad Merad in a gang leader character, or Jean Pierre Darrousin as the Jean Reno's friend, in a character not so usual for him.
Marseille is well shown. Sunny Marseille, the most famous city about underworld in Europe, and probably in the whole world.
But, I repeat, there is no real surprise in this bloody - not for the sissies - tale inspired by actual events.
There is just one last thing I'd like to say about this movie:
When some one is shot in the belly and the chest by 00 Buckshots, HE CANNOT SURVIVE. With 22 .45 caliber bullets, yes, perhaps, it actually happened, but with .12 Caliber, and at close range, no Sir.
Try it...
Of course, I am kidding.
Some are not so foreseeable. For instance Kad Merad in a gang leader character, or Jean Pierre Darrousin as the Jean Reno's friend, in a character not so usual for him.
Marseille is well shown. Sunny Marseille, the most famous city about underworld in Europe, and probably in the whole world.
But, I repeat, there is no real surprise in this bloody - not for the sissies - tale inspired by actual events.
There is just one last thing I'd like to say about this movie:
When some one is shot in the belly and the chest by 00 Buckshots, HE CANNOT SURVIVE. With 22 .45 caliber bullets, yes, perhaps, it actually happened, but with .12 Caliber, and at close range, no Sir.
Try it...
Of course, I am kidding.