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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