Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Le Battant aka Ice (Alain Delon, Robin Davis, 1983)

Ah, these good old Delon's 80s crime flicks! Too complicated, too long, too violent, with lots of nudity...

This one is as typical as it can be. Jacques returns from the prison and wants to retrieve the jewels he robbed. In the process body count will raise to double digits number and he will fuck 3 chicks.

It has some cool moments. My favorite scene would be the first one when bad guys are introduced. They are in this bistro all dressed up and talking cool gangster sinister type of shit trying to intimidate the owner. But problem is - check this out! - that they share single pistol between them! Hilarious! So when the poor guy decides to run away, bad guy #1 gives this gun to guy #2 so he can shoot him. Alain, what where you thinking when writing this!?!?

Cast is excellent. Not surprisingly old school François Périer as a main bad guy is superb and there's even a small role for very young Richard Anconina. It is of course always nice to see our favorite Nikita Anne Parillaud who was at time in relationship with Delon. Although to be honest, Marie-Christine Descouard steals the movie from her, at least in feminine department.

Btw, almost 20 years later, in 2002, Anconina and Parillaud did another movie together. Masterpiece, absolute must-see police thriller Gangsters.

All in all cool nostalgic stuff, just don't expect to see Melville flick.

6/10

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