Plot: Like all self-respecting gangsters, Marseilles-based Charly Matteï (Jean Reno) has only one weakness – his family. You’ll gather this from the Werther’s Original-style opening to this Gallic thriller, in which an adorable blonde child stares lovingly into granny’s wrinkled eyes. Alas, Matteï’s idyllic retirement is disrupted by a flurry of bullets that leave him for dead. Only he doesn’t die, he goes on a rampage instead. Richard Berry directs with slick proficiency and Reno is good at grabbing moments of whimsy (“I had a dog once. He was an alcoholic”), but neither can sew together the patchwork of gangster-flick clichés posing as a script. Without a compelling plot to hold our attention, this only amounts to an impressively bloody bullet-a-thon: 22 seems a very conservative estimate.
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 (1,222 votes)
Directed by: Richard Berry
Starring: Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina Foïs
Note: Audio is in French and movie has English Subtitles, just means you have to pay attention!....
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