Mesrine: Part 1 - Killer Instinct - 2008 - 8/10
I always run hot and cold with Vincent Cassel. When he’s too over the top, he can ruin an entire film.
Mesrine is a role he was born to play.
Cassel dominates every scene in Part One, as Jacques Mesrine begins his career of robberies and kidnappings in France, USA and Canada. Canadian prison farm sequence is nicely grim.
A solid action flick, without unnecessary pyrotechnics or college grad CGI.
Can’t wait to see Part Two.