Tuesday, 7 August 2012

DVD review: 22 bulletts


A mob boss is shot down by his rivals, 22 times, but he somehow survives and exacts his revenge.

The latest product of Luc Besson patented action movie construction set is actually based on the real life exploits of Jacky Imbert, although with an healthy dose of fictionalization to make the main protagonist more sympathetic.
Unluckily while adapting the story they stopped in the middle of the metaphorical river, therefore they made a lot of changes to make it more movie friendly but left in a lot of stuff that doesn’t make sense without previous knowledge of Marseille crime scene, many things are left just there, dangling plot pieces that were left there because they sound awesome, like the legendary flight to Orano, but without the proper context sounds just bizarre.
The action is less over the top than the other recent actioners from France, instead a lot of time is spent trying to establish the character of the “immortal” boss that is trying to reform his ways. It all feels very clunky, disjointed.
Jean Reno plays the stock, and stoic, Jean Reno character. He is still very good at it and by itself this makes the movie watchable. The action stuff is still fun but the convoluted plot make it hard to follow.
Nowadays the French couldn’t make a bad action movie even if they tried but this is undoubtedly the worst film that they made in a while, still enjoyable for fun of the genre though.

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