There are some great gangster movies out there, and L'instinct de Mort (Killer Instinct) is up there. It stars Vincent Cassel as Mesrine, a one-time public enemy number 1 in France. And this guy is nasty.
Most great gangster films, in my mind, leave me feeling conflicted. In Public Enemies, Bonnie and Clyde and American Gangster, for example, I like the criminals enough to hope for their freedom, a getaway, at least at times. And for God's sake - Butch and Sundance? There was no conflict for me in that one. I wanted them to start over in Bolivia.
I was not conflicted in this movie at all. Mesrine is a nasty piece of shit, his friends are evil, and he deserves everything he gets. He is tortured in a Canadian prison, and that's just fine. It probably made him more evil, but crap, this guy was hardly going to move up the evolutionary ladder anyway.
This is a hard one to watch, but if you like gangsters and great acting, put it in your queue. There is a part 2 (Mesrine - Public Enemy Number 1) that comes out March 29. I'll be watching it.
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