Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I find it hard to say why exactly but I liked this film. It was well made, well acted and different enough that it wasn't the usual predictable Hollywood pulp. I'd recommend it for anyone who has more than a few brain cells to rub together as at least a refreshing change of pace that shows films can be both different and entertaining.Charles Bronson has a reputation for making mostly the other kinds of films so this is very different for him. The French spin adds something hard to define but enjoyable. The female lead is wonderful to watch too.I found I really enjoyed the sets and locations and, yes, especially the rain. Perhaps rain overdoes some moodiness in a way but I find I love to see a film with rain in it as a backdrop. Maybe that comes from living in a place where I rarely see and real rain.Nevertheless, I'd buy this if I could find it locally, especially if it was on wide format DVD. I don't think anyone who was behind the project gave it enough support when it was a new film (I originally saw it in an "art house" cinema) and I certainly don't think the mainstream types will support it now. I think it's a rare gem of film making and deserves to be preserved, owned and watched by lots of new people. I'll keep looking for it along with other rare but obscure gems I'd love to own.

I finally tracked down a copy of this rare gem on VHS here in T.O. and what can I say, this is an underrated and unique piece of fimmaking. I don't believe there's been anything like it before or since. The best use of Bronson's action hero persona since "Once Upon a Time in the West". It really is a shame that in the thirty plus years of Bronson's film career that he never found anything approaching this quality. Intelligently written and beautifully filmed, the movie resembles something of a photographed play with the lovely Marlene Jobert and Charlie squaring off in an unusual cat and mouse tale almost entirely consisting of their two characters during its' running time. I am officially begging either Anchor Bay or Blue Underground or whoever to produce a widescreen DVD of this little known film treasure.

Charles Bronson is featured as the lead actor in this movie, but he's in it for a very brief period of time. The story could have been good, but stupid nonsense things happened making the movie lose its credibility. I absolutely hated this movie and was overjoyed when it ended. This movie should be avoided at all costs. Too long and drawn out. And more importantly - POINTLESS!!!

The film that prompted Jim Morrison to write Riders on the Storm - and his plural indicates what this film is about: a cop and a killer both arriving with the rain. Marlene Jobert is unforgettable as the woman central to the film but incidental to the cat and mouse game the men are playing.Sebastien Japrisot who wrote the screenplay is one of the great French mystery writers - Compartiment Tueurs (The 10.30 From Marseilles)La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil - that's The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun to those in California who want to criticize French films without speaking French. Clement is one of the great French directors. His En Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), based on the work of another great mystery writer, Patricia Highsmith,is a masterpiece, largely because of his stunning young star, Alain Delon. This film is the grainy, rain-driven counterpoint to that sundrenched piece, both essentially downbeat and redolent of their period. Jim liked it, anyway.