Screenwriter: Luc Besson (Taken)
Director: Patrick Alessandrin (15 août)
Actors: Curil Raffaelli (Live Free or Die Hard), David Belle (Babylon A.D.) and Philippe Torreton

Labels: film, Luc Besson, movie trailer

A low level Parisian crook teams up with a leggy angel and all of his troubles are solved. Luc Besson is a wildly successful filmmaker and has a great eye but his stories are always so contrived. Even for him, this seems a bit posed.

Labels: film, foreign film, Luc Besson, movie review

"Golly, I've seemed to have lost my shirt."

This dumb but it's a glorious brand of dumb. The other Transporter movies are as meaningful as the backs of cereal boxes but without all the big words. If you watch this, see him drive the car on top of the train and you're still interested in seeing the movie, you may as well go out of your way to see it, there's obviously no helping you. If you're into cheese, you have something to look foward to now.




Screenwriter: Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) and Robert Mark Kamen (Taken)
Director: Olivier Megaton (Exit)
Actors: Jason Statham (Snatch), François Berléand (Transporter 2) and Robert Knepper (Hitman)

Labels: film, Jason Statham, Luc Besson, movie trailer

Luc Besson's (The Fifth Element, Léon: The Professional) apocalyptic breakout hit may have been something when it was released, but now its just a bore. There are some glumpses of good filmmaking but they are sullied by a muddled plot and...well...bad filmmaking. A young Jean Reno stands out in this self aware mishap of a film.


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Labels: film, French cinema, Jean Reno, Luc Besson, movie review

Screenwriter: Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita) and Robert Mark Kamen (Taken)
Director: Olivier Megaton (Exit)
Actors: Jason Statham (Death Race), Robert Knepper (Hitman) and François Berléand (The Amateurs)

Labels: film, Jason Statham, Luc Besson, movie trailer

I’m a huge fan of Jean Reno and I still can’t recommend this outing. Derivative of Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita, Reno revives his role of Victor the Cleaner but under a new name. The main issue with this film is that Besson toys with notions of pedophilia when the main character takes in a very young Natalie Portman. The relationship between the two is provocative and therefore just wrong. Even if one is morally retarded and isn’t put off by the insinuations made in the film, its still not a good piece of cinema. All style and no story.


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Labels: film, Gary Oldman, hitman, Jean Reno, Luc Besson, movie review, Natalie Portman