Le Raid
2002 Action / Comedy
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Summary
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris.
After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée.
There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate
the heiress Léonore de Segonzac. In spite of the fact that the other members
of her family have been killed whilst practicing their extreme sports, Léonore
is determined to enter an adventure race known as “Le Raid” in South America.
Her team consists of Sami and his three friends, who find they have plenty of opportunities
to kill their victim. Unfortunately, the hit men who were originally engaged to
kill Léonore have arrived on the scene and intend to take out not just the young
heiress but also her four hapless team members…
Review
After making a promising directorial debut with
Le Ciel, les oiseaux et... ta mère!
(1999), Djamel Bensalah failed to win many plaudits for this chaotic adventure comedy.
Although the film offers a few decent laughs, its shambolic script, over-abundance of
special effects and totally haphazard direction land it a place firmly in the bottom drawer
of cinema entertainment. The film’s only saving grace is the infrequent appearance
of Gérard Jugnot, the only actor in this incoherent mess who is capable of injecting
some real comedy into it.
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