I already know that Fred Cavayé is a great action film director, the best french one after Florent Emilio Siri.
The reading of this feature topic scared me. I have still in mind the lousy script of his first film: POUR ELLE, predictable at the most, with a totally unbelievable tale. His second movie: A BOUT PORTANT was far better.
Back to this one, OK, it is full of clichés, but the many action sequences are powerful, fast paced, thrilling, at first rate riveting for the audience. As usual with Cavayé. Vincent Lindon is not vrey often seen in this kind of action flick, but rather in dramas. I like that. He is pretty good.
But there is a totally unbelievable scene - I'd better say some sequences - concerning the armored truck company - where Lindon's character works - that should have remained on the cutting room floor. How the hell a security guard - Lindon - can go to his company after hours, take some guns (automatic ones, armored truck companies in France never use automatic pistols) from the armored locked room, meet some of his colleagues in the locker room? AFTER HOURS !!! Just non sense?
Fred Cavayé must have been drunk !!!
The ending is very surprising, in the line of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE....I am not joking...
From an Olivier Marchal story.
The reading of this feature topic scared me. I have still in mind the lousy script of his first film: POUR ELLE, predictable at the most, with a totally unbelievable tale. His second movie: A BOUT PORTANT was far better.
Back to this one, OK, it is full of clichés, but the many action sequences are powerful, fast paced, thrilling, at first rate riveting for the audience. As usual with Cavayé. Vincent Lindon is not vrey often seen in this kind of action flick, but rather in dramas. I like that. He is pretty good.
But there is a totally unbelievable scene - I'd better say some sequences - concerning the armored truck company - where Lindon's character works - that should have remained on the cutting room floor. How the hell a security guard - Lindon - can go to his company after hours, take some guns (automatic ones, armored truck companies in France never use automatic pistols) from the armored locked room, meet some of his colleagues in the locker room? AFTER HOURS !!! Just non sense?
Fred Cavayé must have been drunk !!!
The ending is very surprising, in the line of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE....I am not joking...
From an Olivier Marchal story.