A tough-nosed French policier of the new school, which means moody lighting, shiny cars and copious bloodletting. Fred Cavayé, whose first film Anything for Her was remade as the Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days, is the mastermind here; he brings together grizzled duo Vincent Lindon and Gilles Lellouche as a former cop and his still-on-the-force erstwhile partner; they buddy up to protect Lindon’s son from an extremely stabby drug gang after the kid witnesses a murder. Cavayé pumps up the car chases and shootouts, and pumps down the plausibility; but it all moves along at such a lick it doesn’t matter much. Still, it’s a tad too birdbrained for a remake, I’d have thought.
