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Toledo Escorts: Meet Mesrine: Half A Gangster Epic, Totally ‘Killer’
August 27, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson — Hollywood has long had a love affair with real-life gangsters. A few decades ago, there was a crime boss in France who made that kind of impression: Jacques Mesrine, coldblooded, hot-tempered, unashamedly brutal and the wielder of a killer smile. And in the biopic Mesrine: Killer Instinct, he gives his better-known American rivals a run for their cinematic money.
Adapted from a memoir that Mesrine wrote in prison, the film takes him from shooting unarmed rebels in Algiers to robbing banks and kidnapping a wealthy employer in Canada to breaking out of — and then back into — a supposedly escape-proof prison.
The filmmakers never even remotely try to make him appealing. But they sure make him seductive. At one point, they have him dancing with a woman who’ll soon be his wife — sexy, slow — and somehow he’s also dancing with the camera. As she melts in his arms, the audience gets caught up in the embrace. Then our antihero returns to his whore, slaughters a pimp and buries a guy alive, and you’re left thinking, “Oh, yeah, there’s that side of him.”
See the full article from “NPR”