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5,5/10
1615
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
- Regie
- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
Benoît Magimel
- Franck
- (as Benoit Magimel)
Béatrice Dalle
- Béatrice
- (as Beatrice Dalle)
André Peron
- Ramun
- (as Andre Peron)
Olivier Barthélémy
- Le chauffeur
- (as Olivier Barthelemy)
Guillaume Hédouin
- Elie
- (as Guillaume Hedouin)
Stéfan Godin
- Yvon
- (as Stefan Godin)
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To start of with, this film no fun ride, nothing glossy or Hollywood like happy endings bull.. It's hard as nails, nihilistic and pretty gutwrenching. It also comes over as very realistic.
The director also had a big hand in the (later) great French cop-series "Braquo" which is also excellent and very tough, and this has the same style.
Sure, it may lack story, I would say it's almost like watching a documentary: a day in the life of... But the happenings that unfold are told with so much vigour and relentlessness (is that a word?) that they kept me glued to the screen the whole 107 min.
Always on the lookout for anything this raw and another reviewer compared it with another French jewel "Dobermann" which as you will understand I absolutely adore as well. But the two are not at all comparable. They are in fact worlds apart with "Dobermann" being a comic-book like eurotrash/punk action adventure and this a slick slice of painful underworld realism.
Absolutely stunning 9/10
The director also had a big hand in the (later) great French cop-series "Braquo" which is also excellent and very tough, and this has the same style.
Sure, it may lack story, I would say it's almost like watching a documentary: a day in the life of... But the happenings that unfold are told with so much vigour and relentlessness (is that a word?) that they kept me glued to the screen the whole 107 min.
Always on the lookout for anything this raw and another reviewer compared it with another French jewel "Dobermann" which as you will understand I absolutely adore as well. But the two are not at all comparable. They are in fact worlds apart with "Dobermann" being a comic-book like eurotrash/punk action adventure and this a slick slice of painful underworld realism.
Absolutely stunning 9/10
A Parisian crime-boss ensures that nobody ever double-crosses or undermines him or his business by using extreme methods. He ruthlessly deals with any of his gang who he even suspects of wrong-doing and similarly deals with other gangs trying to muscle in on his territory. However, his activities have not escaped the notice of the police.
An action-packed but empty film. We have the usual assortment of gangsters, doing gangster stuff, including torturing and murdering people and being involved in extravagant shootouts, and the usual edginess of this characters. So far, so good, as the characters and their methods seem set up for a decent crime-drama.
However, that's all there is: edgy characters, murders and shootouts. The plot is largely non-existent and superficial at best. The background setup IS the plot. There's no arc to the story or the characters: things happen (largely, people get murdered) but that's it - there's no buildup to it and nothing developing from it.
Disappointing.
An action-packed but empty film. We have the usual assortment of gangsters, doing gangster stuff, including torturing and murdering people and being involved in extravagant shootouts, and the usual edginess of this characters. So far, so good, as the characters and their methods seem set up for a decent crime-drama.
However, that's all there is: edgy characters, murders and shootouts. The plot is largely non-existent and superficial at best. The background setup IS the plot. There's no arc to the story or the characters: things happen (largely, people get murdered) but that's it - there's no buildup to it and nothing developing from it.
Disappointing.
I love french films, especially crime thrillers, and films of this type. Dobermann by far and away is the best film of this type that i have ever seen. I bought Paris Lockdown hoping for more of what i'd seen and loved in Dobermann. I was left feeling let down by Paris Lockdown. I just didn't 'get it' at all - i don't actually know what they were trying to achieve with this film. Any chance of really showing and fleshing out the characters and story seems to have fallen by the wayside - which is a shame because it could have easily been a classic. The only decent character and acting was done by Benoit and Tomer. I don't know really... i'm pretty open minded but i'd have a hard time recommending this. This will probably sit on the shelf, or in the loft, for a long time now.
I enjoyed watching this film. Powerful acting from the cast and specially from "Philippe Caubère". I hope he does more films in the future in the "crime" category. I would cast him as the villain, bad guy anytime : )
I don't understand the negative reviews not finding a storyline here :) A good film needs to have your attention for its duration, and believe me this film does that.
I'm from LA, the movie capital of the world. Nowadays films are made by the kilo here :) but there is no quality. Give me a dozen "Truands" per year and I'd be a happy audience!!
I don't understand the negative reviews not finding a storyline here :) A good film needs to have your attention for its duration, and believe me this film does that.
I'm from LA, the movie capital of the world. Nowadays films are made by the kilo here :) but there is no quality. Give me a dozen "Truands" per year and I'd be a happy audience!!
A French gangster film set in Paris with a very thin plot, lots of blood & gore, little or no character studies or plot lines, violent misogynist sex. I kept watching this and waiting for a plot to emerge. It didn't happen. The film starts with episodes of the various factions or gangs involved. One gang member is imprisoned. From then the film simply becomes a series of killings and murders until few of them are left. Reservoir Dogs it is not. Meserine it is not. Ronin it is not. The screenplay appears merely to be a pastiche of the best and worst of American gangster genre. The characters here are portrayed as cold violent individuals. Some characters have no apparent place within a thin plot - just filling up road kill. All this violent mayhem in a capital city and not a single policeman in sight? I found this film to be without much merit and not one that I would watch again, or indeed recommend.
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- WissenswertesMarie Bihemle's debut.
- PatzerAfter 21 minutes, before the shooting, they open the trunk of an Audi A8, to show some narc, by opening it in the middle. On an Audi A8 you have to push the key button in the passenger side light, before the trunks can open.
- VerbindungenFeatures Zug 317 (1965)
- SoundtracksA Lean and Hungry Look
Written by Hugo Coulais and Marianne Faithfull
Performed by Marianne Faithfull and Ulysse
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