Armaguedon

An anti-hero, proletarian, and idealistic man, Louis Carrier (played by Jean Yanne) craves for waking people up to their conditioning as larvas in today's society and puts a plan into action upon inheriting some insurance money from his deceased brother...

Jean Yanne gives a moving, authentic, and powerful performance opposite Alain Delon who plays with lucidity and presence a renowned psychologist hired by the police to hunt down Carrier.

Most likely, this movie will communicate emotions to those who wish for a better world !

What can people do to draw people's attention?Some go as far as to kill their fellow men to achieve that;

Louis ,a humble craftsman, inherits a lot of money.He's got fortune,but he wants fame too.He has his friend Einstein(sic) take photographs of him among crowds of celebrities.He sends them to the Police and threatens to commit crime as "Armaguedon".

Alain Jessua was certainly one of the most underrated of the French directors of that era:"traitement de choc" (probably his most successful effort)"les chiens" and "paradis pour tous" all ventured off the beaten track;they were sometimes close to sci-fi. While "Armaguedon" seems more realistic,it is an absorbing thriller.

The movie is worth seeing because it stars Alain Delon (a psychologist who collaborates with police) and Jean Yanne, a psychopathic criminal with terrorist aspirations.

Maybe the film is more interesting today than in 1977, because now we live in a period in which terrorist threat is global. In a certain way "Armaguedon" is 25 years ahead of its time.

Unfortunately, although still watchable, the movie lacks a real confrontation between the two main actors, and that's a pity -because thriller is one of the genres French filmmakers are excellent in. In the film Delon and Yanne never meet really... It's a script mistake, which director Alain Jessua admits.

There's some action, but the film is more psychological than physical -it's not like many banal Hollywood action movies. But it's not a memorable movie, the final part goes too fast -it spoils the tension settled so far.

Louis Carrier gets a large payout from his brother's life insurance. He quits his workman job and promises to do something memorable. He is about to shoot the Prime Minister, but somehow he ends up greeting him with a handshake. He goes down the rabbit hole. With his idiot sidekick Einstein and the nom de guerre Armaguedon, he starts causing chaos with his random acts of terror and brutal murders. Dr. Michel Ambrose (Alain Delon) helps the police by profiling the unknown suspect.

This is an odd surreal crime drama. I would call it a thriller if it's actually thrilling. It's not and that's not the point. It's a study in nihilism. Quite frankly, it may not have made sense back in the day. This is a guy looking for infamy, looking for the clicks. He's every insel who shoots up a school to make himself a name. He's that guy who shot up a concert in Las Vegas a few years ago. He's not doing it for an actual cause. His cause is nothing but a word salad. It's infamy that he's looking for.

This movie is slow, boring and predictable. Apparently it was initially created for unpretentious and stupid audience.

At every turn of the plot you wonder how could the criminal be so dumb to leave such a trail of damning evidence behind and how the police can be even dumber not figuring it out.

I never saw Alain Delone being so bored in any of his many movies. Probably he understood that he's taking part in creating a real cinematographic dreck.