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Movie Reviews of Un Flic
Movie Review: Now I've seen it all.
Summary: 3 Stars
I just watched this on DVD last night and it is the first Alain Delon film I've seen in color, even though I'm fond of his films, I guess I'm just not the film buff that most reviewers here are. The most intriguing thing about this film and the reason I selected it on Netflix is that Richard Crenna also has a starring role. Hard to imagine what that would look like - of course he was a lot younger in 1972 - so was I.
I liked the stylishness of the action and the plot was interesting, maybe not riveting, but I was evenly entertained and Alain looked good as usual. Then all of a sudden I was rolling on the floor laughing hysterically. WHY? The train robbery scenes used a horribly obvious toy train set and an equally unbelievable plastic model helicopter. So now I am watching the rest of the film through a veil of tears and stifled guffaws.
Until that is, Richard Crenna, nattily dressed in his stylish French robe and patterned silk pajamas is trying to look nonchalant and cool, smoking a cigarette, oh so casually, in the corridor of the train car and all the while has this huge huge horse-shoe magnet (yes, with the ends painted RED) clanking around his neck (with a few other things) and hidden under his attire.
I came undone again and really kind of missed the whole end of the film because it was just so outrageously, no, sublimely ridiculous I couldn't get that image out of my mind and stop laughing. I enjoyed this film a lot and plan now to buy a copy right here at Amazon.
Movie Review: Slow, Dark and Brooding - Somewhat Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
OK, I can see how this film is a classic and how important it must have been in 1972 when it was released. It is beautifully filmed (especially the opening seaside scenes surrounding the bank robbery) and shares glimpses of a warm and inviting early-70s Paris, which is great.Richard Crenna as a French criminal is a bit hard for me to swallow.
Alain Delon's character is cold and mean and elicits no sympathy or understanding from me.
I was but a toddler when this film came out so I came of age with MTV, etc. Perhaps my youth causes my attention to be fleeting... The long, slow, no-dialog scenes in this film are tedious in my opinion. Mildly tough to sit through.
I should also deride the silly special effects in this film. Part of the story involved a spectacular train robbery. Most of the exterior scenes of this robbery were done with a toy train set in a crude model landscape. Indeed the toy train is being shadowed by a plastic helicopter with a visible cable holding it in place. Just 4 years later Star Wars was released - surely the state of the art for movie special effects in 1972 would have allowed a more realistic train/helicopter chase sequence.
Movie Review: Melville's swan film
Summary: 3 Stars
Sad to say the Jean-Pierre Melville did not leave this planet on a high note. Still, UN FLIC possesses some virtues beyond Melville's picturesque style. I found the two drawn-out heists, one right at the start and one in the middle, fascinating. And Catherine Deneuve, in a small supporting role, was the lovliest I've ever seen her.
This film also had the curious appearance of two American actors, Richard Crenna and Michael Conrad (better known later for his role in HILL STREET BLUES) - dubbed (I presume) into French. Crenna brings weight to his role but he must have felt a little lost doing it.
However, the rest of the movie languishes in world-weariness - but why? Melville must have seen that tone it in a lot of movies at the time and wanted to emulate it. But the rest of the story is too barren to explain it. And both Alain Delon, as the cop of the title, and Catherine Deneuve were too young and too lucky to be weary of life. It didn't seem authentic.
Still, there are so few Melville films that this is worth a viewing by Melville fans, at least.
Movie Review: Yawn
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm no expert on film, much less French New Wave. I just like to explore a bit. So I picked this up because I heard it was considered to be influential, and because the idea of Richard Crenna being in something like this struck me as amusing. I liked the ocean/siren bit at the beginning quite a lot, but the ultra-slow pace lost me soon after that. It's also a bit difficult to watch the train/helicopter bit at the end with an unjaded eye. It just didn't captivate me.Movie Review: gee
Summary: 1 Stars
I read about alain delon, he said about himself, "a pretty boy with beautiful face". I was watching this movie and I have a 20/10 vision and I still couldn't figure out, why he said that, his little face with little piggy eyes. The only thing that is really going for him is his shoes. All his movies, how do I put it softly, [I do not like]. He don't even understand what he is doing in the movie as long as camera is rolling, again Alain Delon said that he feels miserable when camera stops rolling and director screams cut, I think he said that because he is afraid that one day director will say cut and you fired, get this untalanted [guy] out, I'll have a better luck doing serious movie with Robin Williams.
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