Criminales de lujo

I went into Carjackers (2025) excited by the concept - hotel staff leading double lives as car thieves targeting the rich. Sounds awesome, right? Unfortunately, the execution falls flat.

The pacing at the beginning is painfully slow, and the film doesn't give you enough time to understand or connect with the characters. Then out of nowhere, everyone starts dying one after another with barely any build-up or explanation. It felt rushed and unearned.

The final chase scene was short and lacked any real tension. It almost seemed like the film just wanted to end, rather than give us a strong, satisfying conclusion.

The acting was decent, but the story and direction didn't live up to the potential. Honestly, it's hard to recommend this to anyone looking for a smart heist or action film.

This movie is a train wreck. Two dimensional characters making incredibly stupid decisions with no clear motivations, silly action scenes littered with plot armor shrapnel, and Gastambide's pathetic acting as the dim highlight of this waste of server space of a movie.

The scenario could have been written by a teenager, and instead of plot twists you get blindsided by how insultingly stupid it gets.

The editing is what you would expect from a mediocre commercial.

The framing is so basic that its motto is "Live Laugh Love", the pacing is rushed and awkward, the soundtrack is simultaneously disturbing and unmemorable, and the social criticism is so heavy handed it makes one want to side with the bad guys. But they're too poorly written for that.

Avoid at all costs.

A terrible script straight out of ChatGPT, action scenes worthy of a Z-movie, and above all, a hilarious cast, and shame on these pseudo actors/actresses.

When Franck Gastambide is the best actor (or rather the least worst) in this film, you know you're going to waste two hours of your life, the prize going to the heroine Zoé Marchal (daughter of Olivier Marchal... well, this would explain it) who plays... oh my god, it's stinging your eyes and ears. Poor thing, find yourself another hobby... Apart from serving as a means of torture or annoying your mother-in-law, I see no reason to watch this rubbish.

The way was mainly opened with BALLE PERDUE films series - which is not finished - and resumed with GTMAX, TIGRES ET HYENES, and some Olivier Marchal's films now "forbidden" in movie theaters. Not unbearable films, far from that, but with always some light touches that have nothing to do in those gritty plots. I mean SUPPOSED to be gritty plots. The most interesting thing here is Frank Gastambide's character as some kind of villain, very unusual for him. He is not a gangster, not a cop, just some kind of mercenary working for the palaces and tracking down punks. As in some crime movies where robbers pull a heist against a mafia casino and are hunted my mafia goons. I love this Gastambide's role, but I really disllike the romance element here, between Olivier Marchal's daughter - Zoé and the young father with his daughter. It has nothing to do here, and the kids scenes really annoyed me. Back to Frank Gastambide, he should play in a further Olivier Marchal's film. The acting here is superb, even for supporting roles. But it could not have been grittier. It is tough, with good surprises. There was another thing that annoyed me, pulling a heist, armed robbery, without gloves.... They touch several things, cars, briefcases; what about finger prints? Screenwriters should be more careful to such details.

This is the worst French movie I've ever seen. I expected something like *Taxi*, but it turned out to be a complete waste of time. The film lacks everything that makes a good action movie: cinematography, editing, special effects, and acting - all are terrible.

The heists are laughably simple, yet not a single police officer intervenes. Are the French police really this incompetent? And the man chasing the thieves? He's utterly useless! The car chase scenes are ridiculously bad-no dynamic gear shifts, no proper acceleration shots, just a mess of poorly filmed sequences. And don't even get me started on the romance. A love-at-first-sight moment so exaggerated that it made me burst out laughing.

There is absolutely nothing worth watching in this movie. I had to fast-forward through most of it just to write this review. Avoid it at all costs!