To be honest, I was convinced for most of this film that it was a made-for-tv movie. There were so many cookie-cutter crime procedural tropes strewn throughout. A good made-for-tv movie, but still a made-for-tv movie, was my impression. Instead, I just learned from imdb that this creation is more like a biopic, for it is based on the true story of organized heroin traffic and a magistrate who fought to stop it in Marseille. Knowing that, I suppose that it's perhaps closer to one of the films about Pedro Escobar than anything else. Not bad, but not great, and apparently somewhat educational.
Review of The Connection
