Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
(L'ennemi public no.1)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Amalric, Ludivine Sagnier, Samuel Le Bihan, Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
Mesrine returns to France and begins a daring succession of hold-ups and escapes until hubris gets the better of him.
Review:
An exhausting narrative which resolves itself into a series of chases and getaways, all impressively staged but somehow insufficient to sustain interest in a character who fails to be as fascinating, or as volatile, as in the earlier film. As a piece of social history it has its points of interest, and uses various contemporary events (Baader-Meinhof, Aldo Moro, etc.) to situate the action, albeit perhaps too obviously. As a piece of over-extended drama it has its epitome in the leaden, though putatively tense, climactic stakeout sequence.
(L'ennemi public no.1)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Amalric, Ludivine Sagnier, Samuel Le Bihan, Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
Mesrine returns to France and begins a daring succession of hold-ups and escapes until hubris gets the better of him.
Review:
An exhausting narrative which resolves itself into a series of chases and getaways, all impressively staged but somehow insufficient to sustain interest in a character who fails to be as fascinating, or as volatile, as in the earlier film. As a piece of social history it has its points of interest, and uses various contemporary events (Baader-Meinhof, Aldo Moro, etc.) to situate the action, albeit perhaps too obviously. As a piece of over-extended drama it has its epitome in the leaden, though putatively tense, climactic stakeout sequence.
(L'ennemi public no.1)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/2.35:1 133m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Amalric, Ludivine Sagnier, Samuel Le Bihan, Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Gourmet
Synopsis:
Mesrine returns to France and begins a daring succession of hold-ups and escapes until hubris gets the better of him.
Review:
An exhausting narrative which resolves itself into a series of chases and getaways, all impressively staged but somehow insufficient to sustain interest in a character who fails to be as fascinating, or as volatile, as in the earlier film. As a piece of social history it has its points of interest, and uses various contemporary events (Baader-Meinhof, Aldo Moro, etc.) to situate the action, albeit perhaps too obviously. As a piece of over-extended drama it has its epitome in the leaden, though putatively tense, climactic stakeout sequence.