Sunday, August 28, 2011
DOWNWARD
Today's film was the second half of
This half was titled Public Enemy #1.
Mesrine becomes obsessed with his image, even writes a book and becomes such a Robin Hood type character that the police eventually find a way to rub him out. But not without some help by him as he gets a little crazily involved in politics.
It is hard to make a terrible person attractive and Vincent Cassel manages to raise the good with the evil in the character. Scenes with his father and his daughter as well as other times with his friends he is generous and even amusing. Until he is not.
This is based on a true story. See the man himself in the photo.
I enjoyed watching this film and it is certainly an achievement of considerable power. It is eventually hard to watch and once would be enough for me but it is quite good and recommended.
Would I want to watch it again? Probably not. That makes it a 3 out of Netflix5. A 3*.
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