e-70733 Feeling the first part is more like a prelude. In the constant superposition of various subjective and objective conditions, Merlin will never be able to leave this killing world. Even though the film seems to be shot in the standard gangster mode, it is very clever that the director did not purify the cause in the process of building the character. After all, the title "L'instinct de mort" has already explained everything: the film focuses on restoration, not analysis.

Yashua Kimbrough (jimniexperience) The Frenchman's GoodfellasVery eventful life of a French Gangster - Follows his grassroot beginnings as an French Soldier of the Algerian War (leading to his anger problems) his inroduction into armed robberies with Paul and Guido, and marriage with Sofia .His inability to escape his life of crime breaks up his marriage life and he has to lay low in Canada after he robs a mob boss casino. He befriends a Quebecian named Mercier and after a kidnapping gone wrong, Mesrine serves time in prison. He escapes from SCU , and after his shootout with police he now on the run and Public Enemy #1

coley130 Killer Instinct, a 2008 film directed by Jean Franccois Richet, is a film that tells the tale of a wild French gangster who, in the beginning, starts out as somewhat of a good gangster. He then slowly become more and more crewel as the movie goes on. I enjoyed that the film was not afraid to show the viewer graphic scenes. Richet shows his audience just how graphic life for Frances most notorious gangster could, and was, for him. This can be seen when Jacques Mesrine not only beats his wife in front of his two colleagues and son but takes it as far as shoving a loaded weapon in her mouth until she realizes that there is nothing she or anyone else can do to stop him. One thing that puzzled me about the film was at the beginning when being help hostage they ask about a bomb, however that is the last we hear of it in the film and the movie continues on as if it never happened. Puzzling. There are a number of ideas expressed in the film. One idea being that if you have trust and faith in yourself, that you can do anything, than anything you set your mind to can be accomplished. And Mesrine lives this life to its fullest. Robbing, stealing, cheating etc. Mesrine shows this a number of times in the film when his partner and he break into a house and tell the owner that they are investigators looking into the homeowners break-in, which was actually him. Another idea that is seen in the movie is that never giving up is way of life for some and not a way of life for others. Continuing to know that you can do anything that you have faith in yourself to do can be accomplished. This is is seen when he breaks out of jail while others stay back and decide not to. The main actor shows courage in persistence in escaping from any trouble he has ever been in. The films director, Jean Franccois Richet, was born and raised in Paris in 1966. Since his start in the film business in 1996 he has directed a number of movies including Ma-6T, All About Love and Assault on Precinct 13. However, Richet is best known for this film and, which won him 6 awards from 12 nominations from all around the globe.

irwinnormal without any coherence, mesrine, follows the hollow life of the hollow sociopath and murderer, mesrine. After a nearly unwatchable opening sequence; the movie starts in earnest with the torture and murder of algerian rebels who, fighting for independence in their own country, get tied by chains to ceilings and then are shot by the protagonist.A lovely man, from the start. One can tell. He returns to France, then after losing his paycheck playing cards, turns to a life of crime; robbing houses and brutally murdering despicable pimps before winding up in prison for, robbing a bank. He puts a gun in his wife's mouth when she asks him not to continue on this path, witnessed by his daughter who yet, still 'loves him'All the while, sad orchestral music bemoans the fate of the hardened criminal who must life a life on the run, handsome and behind the wheels of fancy cars, with remarkably beautiful who have fallen hopelessly in love with (at first sight) him. It is the tale of a poor man from a middle class french family, who despises arabs, and steals from the innocents, all because his father was beholden to his mother and had no 'balls' It's a good thing that they are still making movies like this; ala American Gangster, glorifying/deifying murderers. So, if that's your thing, respect at the price of decency, by any means; ruthless murder and the disgusting glorification of it, by all means, this is the movie for you.Someone might, (if justice ever prevailed) commandeer all the revenue from this sickening film, and give it to poor children for school and books.