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2023 [FRENCH]
Action / Crime
Plot summary
1979. Donald Lavoie is a fearsome hitman who works under the orders of Claude Dubois, head of the Montreal South-West mob. Donald is tasked to take under his wing new recruit Serge Rivard, a hotheaded small-time crook who soon compromises him in a botched double murder. Donald avoids justice thanks to the Dubois clan's lawyers, but this is only a temporary setback for Detective Sergeant Roger Burns, who wants to convince Lavoie to become an informer.
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It is a good period movie from the
Orders, cigarettes, guns for ... - Fear, heart failure, death for ...
A well-made Canadian film, better watched with English subtitles, with convincing acting and above-average everything else. It is grim, it is sad and it is more or less "harrowingly" violent with lots of depressing clouds over.
Would have been better if it were made as a 4-5 parts mini-series with more developments, more background and more flashbacks-present time; then, it would have gathered another 1.5-2 ratings points.
- Screenplay/storyline/plots: 6
- Production value/impact: 5
- Development: 7
- Realism: 7
- Entertainment: 4.5
- Acting: 7
- Filming/photography/cinematography: 7
- VFX: 7.5
- Music/score/sound: 6.5
- Depth: 5
- Logic: 4
- Flow: 5
- Crime/drama: 6
- Ending: 6.
A kind of Mesrine L'ennemi public n°1
Based on several events this is a wonderful entertaining Canadian/French movie 'bout hitman Donald Lavoie.
Once in a while i see a movie wich is that good, i have to write about it.
Take it from me, if you liked the true story about Mesrine Public Enemy nr1, you also like this one. It's a very bloody movie only the French can make. There were sometimes scenes wich were shocking. And it works for me. I've seen a lot of these kind of movies (I love true story movies about criminals from the 70's and 80's), and this one is also a very good one. Éric Bruneau plays Donald very good and Benoît Gouin looks almost perfect to be one of the brothers Dubois.
For me, this is a movie you can see twice or multiple times, not in a row but once a year. Why? Because it's a solide French/Canadian criminal policier with a great 'true' story.
It was 'incroyable'.







