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- 2004
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2004
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary Dris (Le Bihan) returns to a quiet life with his devoted fiancé after serving four years in prison. However, when Yanis, a childhood friend, lures him into one more heist, Dris can't refuse. (Sony)
Directed By: Manuel Boursinhac
Written By: Bibi Naceri, Manuel Boursinhac
- 2004
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2004
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
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Summary Dris (Le Bihan) returns to a quiet life with his devoted fiancé after serving four years in prison. However, when Yanis, a childhood friend, lures him into one more heist, Dris can't refuse. (Sony)
Directed By: Manuel Boursinhac
Written By: Bibi Naceri, Manuel Boursinhac
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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23% Positive
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3 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
44
23% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The atmospheric, richly detailed La Mentale has terrific vitality with its volatile mixture of alternating camaraderie and savagery.
Doesn't have much time for refinement of image or elegance of plot. What it's got instead is an insider's feel for the local, excitable hoodlum life and speech.
Although it offers no new angles on the story engines of loyalty and revenge, the French film boasts an intriguing milieu and the off-center, hair-trigger intensity of Samy Naceri as a crime boss.
Light on inner conflict and heavy on cliches.
Gallic gangster actioner fuses many disparate generic and stylistic conventions, but, although script by co-star Samy Naceri's brother was purportedly pared down from several hundred pages, it still bears the weight of its pretensions.
Probably should have stayed on a shelf back in Paris.
Choose to pass this one up.
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