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Paris Countdown(Le Jour attendra)

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France · 2013
1h 32m
Director Edgar Marie
Starring Jacques Gamblin, Olivier Marchal, Carlo Brandt, Reda Kateb
Genre Thriller, Crime

Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.

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Village Voice by

The skirmishes are alternately silly and wan. The film's gloomy techno score is its most lasting attribute.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Slickly executed with glossy, neon-drenched cinematography and a throbbing techno-music score, Paris Countdown sacrifices substance for stylishness, as has become the distressing tendency of so many recent crime dramas. But its fast pacing, compelling lead performances and frequent doses of action prevent boredom from settling in.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

This been-there-done-that story marks a pretty banal debut for writer-director Alain Marie, who seems far more interested in aping Refn and early-career Michael Mann than in finding his own style.

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Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

If Michael Mann, Luc Besson and Quentin Tarantino all ate the same bad sushi together, the unfortunate end result might just resemble the pre-digested pap that is the French thriller Paris Countdown.

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The Dissolve by Sam Adams

Paris Countdown has style to burn, where “style” means “uses lots of lighting gels and some camera flourishes,” but it doesn’t have a coherent point of view or a solid take on the genre.

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