A heist movie. I love heist movies. This one is about a jewel heist, with all the attendant attention to detail of how to overcome state of the art security systems. Catherine Zeta Jones does not dance through lasers in this one, but they do have to defeat a grid of electronic eyes, and other super high tech computer controlled gadgets.
The first half of the movie is a mix of a getaway/escape/manhunt movie, and a released convicts hunt taking his dues from his crime boss. The two criminal leads come together in a contrived accident to work through a plan that they'd been provided. All the time dogged by the Gendarme engaged in a nationwide manhunt.
The heist sequence was well executed, the manhunt was adequate, the ending was swift and almost fatalistic.
If you like noir, and you like French, this 1970 offering is an interesting watch. For the most part it's shot straight, with an alcoholic experiencing the DTs as the exception. Moody and brooding are probably adjectives that would be used to describe the pacing of the film, the sort of things you don't typically see in contemporary Hollywood, except in maybe Michael Manns films.
7/10 but you need to be in the mood.
No comments:
Post a Comment