Angelika Film Center
18 W Houston St
212.995.2000
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Aug 27, 2010 – Sep 17, 2010
Daily
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$13
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“Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part in a two-part series based on the memoir of notorious French gangster Mesrine. During his active years in the '60s and '70s, Mesrine committed burglaries, robbed banks, loved and lost, engaged in kidnapping, and busted out of prison — a résumé ripe for cinematic realization. The first film leaves us with Mesrine earning the well-deserved title Public Enemy No. 1. Vincent Cassel is brilliant as the anti-hero, a charismatic cold-blooded killer, and director Jean-Francois Richet delivers gritty action sequences that channel Don Siegel's Dirty Harry days. Gérard Depardieu even pops into the melee as Guido, a local Godfather. We don't recommend robbing a bank to do so, but Killer Instinct is worth a trip to the theater.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill
'Mesrine: Killer Instinct' - the first of two parts - charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on.
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