Alicia I love this movie so much

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Wordiezett So much average

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

rstout3526 A French gangster film set in Paris with a very thin plot, lots of blood & gore, little or no character studies or plot lines, violent misogynist sex. I kept watching this and waiting for a plot to emerge. It didn't happen. The film starts with episodes of the various factions or gangs involved. One gang member is imprisoned. From then the film simply becomes a series of killings and murders until few of them are left. Reservoir Dogs it is not. Meserine it is not. Ronin it is not. The screenplay appears merely to be a pastiche of the best and worst of American gangster genre. The characters here are portrayed as cold violent individuals. Some characters have no apparent place within a thin plot - just filling up road kill. All this violent mayhem in a capital city and not a single policeman in sight? I found this film to be without much merit and not one that I would watch again, or indeed recommend.

coffeemug Bad acting (philippe Caubere acts like Michel Constantin on a bad day...), cheap violence and torture (did they really need to glorify the act of drilling a hole through a kneecap, are we supposed to enjoy this?), no plot - just mean bad guys (if this was part of providing young audiences with role models I believe the director should be sued, these models are not going to give any good ideas to youngsters... ).There are much better contemporary French films around, this was just a pathetic "kill bill" try à la française, and even so, it misses the point.If you want good french stuff with suspense, violence, tough guys and a fine plot, look for "MR 73" or "36 quai des orfèvres"

baston-2 I love french films, especially crime thrillers, and films of this type. Dobermann by far and away is the best film of this type that i have ever seen. I bought Paris Lockdown hoping for more of what i'd seen and loved in Dobermann. I was left feeling let down by Paris Lockdown. I just didn't 'get it' at all - i don't actually know what they were trying to achieve with this film. Any chance of really showing and fleshing out the characters and story seems to have fallen by the wayside - which is a shame because it could have easily been a classic. The only decent character and acting was done by Benoit and Tomer. I don't know really... i'm pretty open minded but i'd have a hard time recommending this. This will probably sit on the shelf, or in the loft, for a long time now.

GUENOT PHILIPPE "Truands" is a movie I love because it destroys all the clichés gangster movies usually give us. Rise and fall of thugs, features where violence keeps close to romance,and where main characters are nevertheless sympathetic for the audience. And when they die, the same audience suffer in the inside. See "Scarface", for example...With "Truands", except some scenes where there are dialogs taken from "Scarface" - such as "You think you can f...me?!!!" "Nobody f...me!!!"..., everything is different from other pictures. There is no trace of sympathetic character. And of course no humor at all. Nothing to do with Tarantino. Every one is Absolutely nasty at possible. Every one. It's disgusting. If you wait for some moral or ethic, you'll puke all over the joint...No emotion either. Debauchery, treason and slaughter. Baths of blood all over the movie. Bullets, buck shots 00, riot guns, M 16....All the details for "Truands". In summary the real underworld.The character played by Benoit Magimel is absolutely out of his usual ones. Angel face Magimel is here a ruthless murderer, a professional killer. He and his buddy Olivier Marchall played a duo of killers which reminds me some American classic...----------BEWARE SPOILERS-------------------------And there is no end. Life goes on for the nasty ones.But I love that.It changes.