Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

mmunier At least I had a nice trip back to France and even saw a glimpse of the Eiffel tower from my lounge chair in Sydney Down Under! But ALAIN DELON, wasn't he a superstar, lady heart throb...What happened to him here? I just come back from Tokyo and his youth was splattered on some billboards like if it was yesteryear! Please tell me what is so special about this nonsensical story that never gets of the ground and almost literally at the end. Yes that the spoiler that made the big spoil for me. OK there is a few chases and some bang bang - I must be a heartless so and so because i can't understand how some other reviews can be so... pleased with this. Yes to each its own but definitely no for me

morrison-dylan-fan Talking to a DVD seller about French cinema,I found out that he has recently picked up some titles starring Alain Delon.With having heard of Delon for years,I decided to join him in tracking down the 3 men to kill.The plot:Driving to his weekly poker game, Michel Gerfaut finds a man,lying in a car covered in blood.Rushing him to the hospital, Gerfaut discovers that it was all too late.Wondering about why that man was killed, Gerfaut gets caught in the cross fire and becomes a target for the killer.Due to the mysterious man selling faulty missiles. (next time try before you buy!) his former buyers set off a missile at Gerfaut.View on the film:Opening with a missile blasting on the screen,co-writer/(along with Christopher Frank and actor Delon) director Jacques Deray & cinematographer Jean Tournier smudge the movie in 80's cream. Heating the action scenes up in splatters of burning crimson,Deray digs into the early days of the decade with chic stylization,by painting the streets and Gerfaut's slick clothes in pristine white which give the wacky car chases and gun fights a real pop.Spun from Jean-Patrick Manchette's novel,the screenplay by Deray/Frank and Delon sadly lacks the over exaggerated sparks of the directing style,due to largely keeping most of the plot vague and confused,until a sharp Film Noir twist gives the flick the desired bite.Joined by a sweet Dalila Di Lazzaro (who also appears topless) Delon gives a good performance as Gerfaut,with Delon taking advantage of his chiseled looks to cast Gerfaut in a rebellious atmosphere,as Gerfaut tries to avoid the 3 men to kill.

gridoon2018 A rather atypical role for Alain Delon, in the sense that his character is not a super-confident super-cop or something along those lines, but a regular guy (by Delon standards; after all, he's still a professional poker player with a free-spirited Italian girlfriend who proves yet again that a girl's breast size doesn't really matter as long as she's comfortable with her body) who gets accidentally mixed up with a series of assassinations and becomes a target. He seems to be in over his head for a while, but eventually he takes the offensive. The film itself, however, is pretty typical stuff; the story is thin, and there is one of the most inept assassination attempts ever made by a pair who are supposedly at the top of their field (they try to drown Delon in a sea full of swimmers!). On the plus side, there is a memorably shocking scene involving a door's eyehole, and a typically fine Remy Julienne-supervised Paris car chase. ** out of 4.

Sorsimus A better- than- routine French crime flick, with Alain Delon as "the wrong man in the wrong place" getting accidentally mixed up with arms dealers. Typically convincing effort from Delon, nice pessimistic atmosphere and strangely surprising ending make this one a treat for eurocrimi fans.Includes some brief nudity and "unnecessarily" graphic violence for the viewers pleasure, too. Not a masterpiece, but entertaining, nevertheless...Released on video in Finland in the early eighties.