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1993 Crime Thriller
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Summary
Despite an exemplary record as a police inspector, Julien Segal has become disillusioned
with his career and is on the point of giving it all up. His superior, Carre, persuades
him to undertake a mission that will unmask a group of notorious drugs dealers.
Julien accepts, even though this means him infiltrating the gangster underworld.
He doesn’t realise that Carre intends using him as a scapegoat to conceal his own involvement
in a massive drugs trafficking scheme. When an attempt on his life fails, Julien
becomes suspicious and hatches a plan to find out who is so keen to put him on the mortuary
slab...
Review
Popular actor-singer Patrick Bruel stars in this formulaic but otherwise watchable thriller
from director Claude Zidi (better known for the
Ripoux films). The overly complicated
plot is redeemed in part by some impressive action scenes, although the sentimentality
is laid on a bit thick in places and the violence gets a bit sadistically gratuitous in
parts. Had this film been made a decade earlier, it’s likely that Jean-Paul Belmondo
would have played the leading role. Patrick Bruel may not have Belmondo’s physique
or charisma, but his portrayal of the film’s hero is touchingly convincing, even if the
tortuous plot isn’t.
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