Carjackers

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!

Fantastic euro action movieI had low expectations, especially compared to Netflix,s Lost Bullet movies with Alban Lenoir and GTMAX however, I am a massive fan of this new euro action movie trend on streaming and Carjackers is a one of the great movies from that genre.

Great character development and some nice hardcore action scenes what else to ask for! If action movie fans want to be entertained with some great action scenes, this movie is it!! From start to finish this movie will entertain streaming audiences. Why the low rating! Just enjoy a good low budget euro action movie with some twists and turns along the way. It,s a great action movie.

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.

If you need something to happen on your tv-set while you're hangover and don't want a plot more advanced than any low budget comics - this is it!

Action: yes. Good action: no.

I would sincerely recommend this movie for.. hmm You, the drunk guy not wanting to think or be interested while you're looking at some cheap action. Or maybe you: the guy that thinks that the world is missing out on cheap 80's action shows where the "hero" wins over all odds.

Or rather : I would not recommend this movie to anyone....

Well, maybe I am too harsh. There _are_ several shoot-outs and the hero's gang doesn't always win. Even som 'touching moments' of you are used to watching the Disney channel. Maybe you would like this movie as well?

Overall the movie was good, the acting decent and the scenery/photography excellent. But it sucked that it went off the rails with a couple of glaringly obvious forced plot-twists to the storyline:

1. The carjackers were presented as pretty smart having completed a number of jobs in the past but simultaneously too unsophisticated to know that millions of gems would be tracked?

2. I absolutely hate it when during a life-or-death fight scene, the good guy/girl would get the upper hand against the bad guy who's literally trying to kill him/her, but then NEVER seems to finish him off. They ALWAYS inexplicably turns their back on the bad guy or otherwise gets distracted and allows their mortal enemy to regain the upper hand; it's so stupid!