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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Robert Enrico
Year: 1967
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Last Adventure is completely a movie of it’s time, and that’s both good and bad.
The good part is the characters. Manu (Alain Delon), Roland (Lino Ventura), and Laetitia (Joanna Shimkus) are adventurers, free spirits from three different generations, who follow their bliss, and are constitutionally […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream/ Suspense
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Year: 2002
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Something I like about French thrillers: more often than not, they don’t feel the need to spell everything out for you.
We meet Louis (Pascal Greggory), while he is reclining in his backyard in Strausberg, Germany, watching a creepy nature documentary on wasps and tarantulas. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Western/ Fantasy/ Action
Director: Jan Kounen
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Initially, there’s a lot to like about Blueberry. It’s a take on the American West by a Dutch director, with a French actor in the lead, which makes it different right off the bat.
Michael Blueberry is a wild French kid from New Orleans, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Borsalino & Co. begins almost immediately after the events of Borsalino. François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has been killed. Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) wastes no time finding the culprit and disposes of him. The victim’s brother, Volpone (Riccardo Cucciolla) wants revenge and we’re off to the races. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1980
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I must have Occupy Wall Street on the brain. I am once again reminded that the phenomenon of rich and powerful people protecting their own perceived interests at the expense of everyone else is as old as civilization itself.
Three Men To Destroy, based on a novel […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Burma Conspiracy aka Largo Winch II is the second movie I’ve seen within the week to steal plot points from several movies. Let me see…there’s the use of insulin as a weapon and chocolate as an antidote from Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, the subcutaneous […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Generally, I like my movies to be about something, to have something to say about the human condition. Here is the extent of the philosophical content of Largo Winch: “What life gave is one thing. What you do of it is another.” In other words, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1994
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Given their premise, director Bertrand Tavernier and writers Jean Cosmos and Michel Léviant had no choice but to balance La Fille De D’Artagnan AKA Revenge of the Muskateers on the knife-edge between satire and straightforward adventure. That’s a heckuva tricky tone and Bertrand Tavernier can’t quite […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The situation is pure boilerplate. Gangster Ruby (Jean Reno) is having an affair with the girlfriend of his boss, Vogel (Jean-Pierre Malo). He’s also stealing from him. When Vogel finds out, he promptly caps the girl. Ruby wants revenge and Vogel still wants his money […]
