22 Bullets
2010 ‘L'Immortel’ Directed by Richard Berry
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The revenge of the Professional.
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...
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22 Bullets is a very violent but rudimentary gangster-revenge thriller. It starts with Jean Reno getting shot to pieces, remarkably surviving and then going on a bloody mission of vengeance. I’m a man of simple tastes and a film with such a high body count as this could never be considered boring it is just a shame that the plot can’t match the effectiveness of the violence.
As we saw in Leon, Reno is good at playing the role of a killer of few words and he adds an element of humanity largely absent in the rest of the film. The rest of the cast are perfectly decent in their respective roles but sadly leave no real impression. The police…
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Remarkable in being completely unremarkable, 22 Bullets is your standard revenge flick that has absolutely nothing original going for it, but has the decency to be mildly entertaining. It stars Jean Reno as the (ex-)mob boss with a "heart" who at the beginning gets almost ripped to shreds by a group of hitmen, referred to as professionals despite making a complete mess and not even finishing the job. Betrayed and angry, he goes out of his way to take revenge on the group of seven, including the man who ordered the hit.
There is nothing spectacular about 22 Bullets but a number of factors make it a fun ride. Jean Reno is pretty convincing as per usual and in general…
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They actually thought they could kill Jean Reno with bullets??! How "primaire" of them! Everyone knows that the only way to hurt Jean Reno is to offer him a script for a silly role in an oddball movie... There have been several worthy attempts in the past, but even they failed to diminish his true power.
L'Immortal or '22 Bullets' as it can be called finds Reno, who had given up 'the life' a few years before, out for revenge after being left for dead by men from his criminal past. This film is like the last chapter in a book appropriately titled "The Professional." An homage to the one who plays the character best.
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"Spilled blood never dries."
-Charly MatteïWhile the story is fictional, it's inspired by true events that happened to Jacky Imbert. Among those true events is that he is an ex-mobster that is gunned down and survives after doctors remove 22 projectiles from his body. His right hand is all but useless now because of nerve damage, but as reporters noted of the real man; "that just forced him to learn to shoot left handed". That part is played by Jean Reno so you can imagine what happens next.
Other then the set up, which includes a back-story that would have made a great movie, the rest is pretty much a straight up revenge movie. It does have great cinematography and a couple of really good performances though.
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Good film. Not on par with the likes of 'Leon', but Jean Reno was still really good (despite being completely type cast). The action flowed well, and the story was above average (barely) for this type of film. Worth a watch if you're into the 'gangsters killing gangsters' stuff.
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An average revenge flick, elivated by a great central performance from Jean Reno.
It was brutally violent in places, and had some genuinely tense scenes, especially the son's rescue.
However, part of me did scream out, 'if you know who did it, what not kill them all at the same time when you had the chance?'.
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Run-of-the-mill French revenge thriller. Basically Jean Reno intersperses time talking to people with occasionally shooting them.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Remarkable in being completely unremarkable, 22 Bullets is your standard revenge flick that has absolutely nothing original going for it, but has the decency to be mildly entertaining. It stars Jean Reno as the (ex-)mob boss with a "heart" who at the beginning gets almost ripped to shreds by a group of hitmen, referred to as professionals despite making a complete mess and not even finishing the job. Betrayed and angry, he goes out of his way to take revenge on the group of seven, including the man who ordered the hit.
There is nothing spectacular about 22 Bullets but a number of factors make it a fun ride. Jean Reno is pretty convincing as per usual and in general…
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French revenge gangster movie. Well executed and quite violent. Jean Reno, being typecast again as a man with few words but deadly eyes survives 22 bullets and is out for revenge. Crawling through barb wire to save his son Jean Reno proves he is the French Liam Neeson and an official BAMF (Bad-Ass Mother Fu*ker)
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They actually thought they could kill Jean Reno with bullets??! How "primaire" of them! Everyone knows that the only way to hurt Jean Reno is to offer him a script for a silly role in an oddball movie... There have been several worthy attempts in the past, but even they failed to diminish his true power.
L'Immortal or '22 Bullets' as it can be called finds Reno, who had given up 'the life' a few years before, out for revenge after being left for dead by men from his criminal past. This film is like the last chapter in a book appropriately titled "The Professional." An homage to the one who plays the character best.
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Jean Reno stars as the retired Mob lunatic.
Marina Fois stars as the alcoholic Detective.
René Artois from 'Allo 'Allo! stars as the dickhead Police Chief -
Richard Berrys 22 Bullets kratzt, was seine Dramaturgie angeht, mitunter am Mittelmaß, die engagierte Arbeit Jean Renos und die technische Umsetzung machen aus dem Thriller nichtsdestotrotz solide Unterhaltungskost.
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Action packed!