Just confirming what others have posted, this is not Melville's best effort. Minimalism is one thing, you don't have to connect every dot for us. But you DO have to give us enough dots to work with to come up with a worthwhile film, and that's the problem here. There is so little dialogue in the film, it nearly qualifies as a silent movie. We know and learn almost nothing about the three leads from film start to end; why is American Crenna a Paris gangster, why is he friends with Delon, and exactly how does Ms. Deneuve fit into the triad? Just a little backstory would have made everyone more interesting and worthy of our attention.
I knew going in the helicopter/train set piece would be underwhelming, but a couple of times I laughed out loud at just how lame it was. I kept looking for the strings to indicate that it was an outtake from the old Thunderbirds series. And the whole sequence really does take an awfully long time, it almost feels like padding.
I knew going in the helicopter/train set piece would be underwhelming, but a couple of times I laughed out loud at just how lame it was. I kept looking for the strings to indicate that it was an outtake from the old Thunderbirds series. And the whole sequence really does take an awfully long time, it almost feels like padding.