One thing to be said about Vidocq is, that Pitof has managed to made visually rather neat flick, even thought it's very visible, that the budget of the film wasn't extremely huge, as some of the CGI effects are very clearly just effects.
Plot isn't that bad either: Vidocq (Gerard Depardieu) is hunting notorious murderer called The Alchemist. Vidocq then disappears, but his biographer Boisset (Guillaume Canet) begins his quest to find him.
As for characters go, Alchemist is actually rather effective boogie man, even thought the movie itself clearly is tilted towards action than horror. That is the biggest problem of the movie: besides the action it really has very little to offer.
Watch it for it's action scenes, not to get scared.
Plot isn't that bad either: Vidocq (Gerard Depardieu) is hunting notorious murderer called The Alchemist. Vidocq then disappears, but his biographer Boisset (Guillaume Canet) begins his quest to find him.
As for characters go, Alchemist is actually rather effective boogie man, even thought the movie itself clearly is tilted towards action than horror. That is the biggest problem of the movie: besides the action it really has very little to offer.
Watch it for it's action scenes, not to get scared.