Lack of good storyline.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Safecracker Hugo Sartet (Roschdy Zem) escapes from two thugs and gets run over by a motorcycle. He is unconscious in the hospital where an assassin tries to kill him. He is saved by the quick reaction of nurse's aide Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche). Police Commandant Fabre (Mireille Perrier) is given the case. Samuel is attacked at home and his very pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is kidnapped. He is told to remove Hugo out of protective custody. The planned exchange goes wrong. He joins Hugo to take down corrupt Commandant Patrick Werner (Gérard Lanvin) and recover his wife.It's an action-packed thriller. It's very tight and rather short at a little over eighty minutes. The caper inside the police station is thrilling. The story itself has a few holes but the quick pace of the movie doesn't allow them to linger. After the initial failed assassination, it seems easier for Werner to kill Sartet without needing to commit a kidnapping. The whole premise is a little convoluted. I'm also unsure of why Werner is keeping incriminating video of his crime instead of destroying it. The costume department needs to find different colors. Everybody is wearing black leather jackets and too many people look the same. The adrenaline-laced action never lets up and these minor flaws are papered over.

Yet more proof that the policier is alive and well in the salles. This modest example takes its place alongside just recent titles as The Prey, Tell No One, 36, Quai des Orfevres and, of course, the director's own Pour Elle (Anything For Her). Nice also to see Gilles Lellouche carrying a film himself after lending sterling support for several years. The plot cries out for non-stop action lest we question the idea of an ordinary man, a nurse yet (or soon-to-be-a-nurse subject to final exams) holding his own with serious gangsters on one side and bent cops on the other, and luckily non-stop action is what Fred Cavaye delivers. Apart from the leading man the highest profile is another exceptional all-round actor equally at home in drama and comedy, Gerard Lanvin, who lends gravitas to a fine effort.

Samuel Pierret is a nursing assistant who saves the wrong guy -- a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital.A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises.Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?......at just nearly ninety minutes long, this movie doesn't give you time to catch your breath. It's as if someone has been watching those ever increasingly silly Besson produced movies, and made it realistic and plausible.It's shot well, and the cast are magnificent in their respective roles. It never gets boring, and the short running time time doesn't leave the narrative redundant.And despite the many plot twists, it's rich in its storytelling.Forget Taken 2, and see this, you'll thank yourself.

I'm not a big fan of these kidnapping and pursuit kind of movies, but I gave this one a chance because I like French movies, and then cause I've read some critics talking about a "great script" that supposedly take the movie to a greater level in the action genre. Well, I'm not a writer, but if that's a wonderful script I bet Hemingway would kill himself again, cause it doesn't have anything that wasn't written in Hollywood before by many action scriptwriters. Anyway, the filmmakers are not to blame for that lie, and the action scenes, which are the ones the movie is centered on, has no flaws in execution or acting. The ending is fair with the story and characters, even when it's a little too hard to believe after all that happened. The main characters acting is correct, but I'll give it a 6 because in the big picture the movie lacks originality and nothing really shocking happens besides the frenetic action. It's a nice movie for popcorn and have a good time, but that's all. I'll recommend you "36" with Auteuil and Depardieu, a policier with a much more complex and credible story.