TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

redpaperweight Alba is a great actor and often plays very well, his performance here was mediocre but still enjoyable. As an action movie it does indeed deliver on action, the story itself however... ..is something completely different. Not only does the story show off the "amazing" Americans by saving the corrupt and incompetent French from a possible terrorist attack in Paris, the story also portrays capitalist propaganda in quite a grasping and striking way. This propaganda enters in two steps: (1) the protesters are given quite some attention and keep being labeled as purely anti-fascist to show that they are indeed good guys, the moment they actually charge the police lines and break through is nearly euphoric; (2) then however enters the second step which pretty much annuls the former by showing us that we indeed may protest but the money that is accumulated by banks and the elite is not ours to take, we may not steal from them as it are their own 'rightful' assets. The French policemen have come to the desperate decision to take the money from the federal reserve as their group was failed by the administration after the loss of 2 team members during a previous operation. They wanted to get even as they felt undervalued and disrespected, now whose fault is that? We can be mad and we may be upset about the inequality or the insane amounts of accumulation over our own backs, but we better not dare to take it back. We may enter the lobby of a bank, shouting and protesting, the vault however is off-limits.

Michael Ledo Michael Mason (Richard Madden) is an American living in Paris living off his ability to pick pockets. The film catches our attention with a nude woman (Stéphane Caillard) walking through a crowd as a distraction. However for Michael, things come abruptly to a halt when he swipes and discards what turns out to be a bomb. His fugitive days don't last long as he is apprehended by CIA agent Briar (Idris Elba) who operates "way off the reservation." Is is attempting to find a girl and a bomber. Meanwhile we know the bad guys are the French police who are blaming radical Islamic terrorists. They have a map of the inside of a bank. The streets are in turmoil.I enjoyed the film. It didn't need a big twist or mystery to keep me interested, the characters did that themselves, often engaging in dry humor. I would rate it on par with 'From Paris With Love." Guide: Nudity. F-word. No sex.

richard-1787 There isn't much of anything to this movie, other than a lot of fast action, with the usual "collateral damage." Idris Elba is an actual actor, but he has no material to act with here. So, for that matter, is Thierry Godard, one of the leads in the French TV series Un Village français, but here he gets nothing at all.Every now and then there are allusions to current politics in French - the National Front, etc. - but they don't go anywhere, and are not explained.Not much is done with the Paris setting. No pleasant scenes in the Eiffel Tower restaurants, or along the banks of the Seine, etc.There is no point in summarizing the plot, such as it is, because it's not very interesting. Suffice it to say that, when all is said and done, this is actually about an impossible bank holdup.If you decide to watch this movie - and I can't imagine why you would - watch it late at night when your mind has shut down and doesn't catch all the holes in the plot.

krocheav Here it is, just what you've been waiting for - another mindless action no-brainer about a one-man army who takes on overwhelming numbers of baddies on both sides of the law! Every cast member is subject to excessively brutal bashings where all but the unimportant elements just pick themselves up and move on to the next impossible situation. The only character who gets to show any real emotion, Zoe (played by Charlotte Le Bon), stands out from the rest - others are simply one dimensional comic book cut-outs. Good sets and some high-end action are wasted within an inane script and overall treatment - with more shells fired than would be used in a full blown Iranian confrontation. The obviously sensationalistic (and foolish) naked lady opening also did nothing to help. Those who are used to watching cheap TV series' might be easily lulled into thinking there's anything worth giving time to here. In fact, it's reminiscent of a Pilot for TV.