For a director with no feature-length experience prior to this, Pierret pulls off an entertaining, well-staged action flick that does much well even if it does little new.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Elisabeth Vincentelli
This impressively lean French thriller wastes nothing in its quest to deliver the goods.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
This isn’t Hiroshima Mon Amour. It’s more like Need for Speed Mon Amour done on a modest scale, with an effectively simple plot and nonstop action scenes that find a daunting number of ways to wreck and destroy cars.
75
Yeah, it’s a genre piece — street chases and fights along the docks and on a farm. Yeah, the dialogue’s kept to a minimum, nothing much to write home about. But is it breathless, blow-the-doors-off fun? “Oh putain oui!”