The Empire of the Wolves
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Movie Reviews of The Empire of the Wolves
Movie Review: Euro-stylish
Summary: 4 Stars
If you liked La Femme Nikita or the Professional, this will do the trick. Very unique, with a cerebral plotline and two converging stories that make for a very engaging movie. May have to watch it twice, particularly if you saw it in French with English subtitles, as I did the first time.(?)Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, so there are certain aspects that aren't very believable, but who cares, it was great fun to watch.Movie Review: Average French Thriller with Solid Acting from Reno and Jover, with Far-Fetched Story
Summary: 3 Stars
The palpable resemblance of `Empire of the Wolves' to `The Crimson Rivers' is not accidental. They share not only the star Jean Reno (both as unconventional cop) but also the original French bestselling writer Jean-Christophe Grangé. The difference is that `Empire' does not have the latter's brooding, `Se7en'-like atmosphere, most attractive aspect of `Crimson.' However, for all its ridiculous story, 'Empire of the Wolves' is largely entertaining thriller thanks to the presence of Jean Reno and his character.
Jean Reno plays Schiffer, a French investigator of unusual, violent (and illegal, perhaps) method with strange beard and a white hair, who teams up with a younger, less experienced cop Paul (Jocelyn Quivrin). Paul was investigating the brutal murder cases of the Turkish female immigrants in Paris, and he needs a help from Schiffer, who is said to know everything about the underground world of France and Turkey.
The story above looks like that of `The Crimson Rivers,' but `Empire of the Wolves' has another story about a woman Anna (Arly Jover) who lost her memories She tries to recover her past, but what she discovers turns out the astonishing secret.
[SO MANY TWISTS] Anna's secret has, of course, something to do with the film's title, but by the time you realize the nature of it, the film shows so many twists and surprises that it might be hard to follow the complicated story and the real situation of the characters. The film explains everything, but not everything is convincing. To be honest I find the film's conclusion is more incredible than the identity of the killer in `The Crimson Rivers.' You may be still entertained by the constant flow of the actions and suspence (and the director is Chris Nahon, responsible for equally action-packed and violent `Kiss of the Dragon' starring Jet Li), or you may just find the film is nonsense.
Either way, you will be impressed with the solid acting of Reno who is truly in character as Shiffer, who does not hesitate to break a finger or two of the potential suspects in order to get what he wants. Arly Jover is also fantastic as Anna who has to drastically transform her images more than once. But for all the interesting use of social issues like immigrants from Turkey, the mystery itself is far-fetched and the effective photography of the rainy city of France and the shiny sky of Turkey cannot hide the big plot holes in the overlong story.
Movie Review: Empire of the Cockerels not really wolves!
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a kind of movie that you cannot understand what it's all about until the last 15-20 minutes. From the name of the movie you can think it's about the Turkish mafia or French made the Turks again the bad guys in Europe. But in the reality, it's about the drug traffic to Europe from Kurdish terrorists growing heroin close to Iraq border and shipping to Europe using Turkey. Ironicly French government agency is being involved secretly in this relation with this Kurdish terrorist group as well as Turkish agents(grey wolves) against it.Movie Review: Jean Reno
Summary: 3 Stars
Tough cop Reno solves case about mad Turkish extremists trying to take over the world - it's a crazy violent romp. The French make it more complicated than it needs to be with numerous sub-plots and red herrings.
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