Mestres do Assalto

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.

Horrible script, Horrible execution on a lost and twisting plot. If it wasn't for youtube I would not have been able to finish this movie.

It reminds me of a cheap knockoff. I was like watching Fast and Furious but without the suspense.

Action scenes could not separate a realistic feel from the car chase to the shootouts. Again credit for trying, but this is just garbage.

"I thought you seemed happy with him girl" She only just met the dude. Unless several months have passed and they went on more than one date. Once again horrible script.

I need a minimum of 28 more characters. Looks like i go them.

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.

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!

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!