Crime Insiders (2007)

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This movie is hardcore, brutal, explicit, has a lot of whores, whores are being raped, smuggled, killed, there is also a lot of drugs and even some uranium. There are different characters, Islamic Arabs who are gangsters and love whores, drugs and Koran... just about everything. All the characters are nuts.The worst flaw of the movie is there is no observable story or plot. Things somewhat do happen in a sequential manner, one killing follows another killing, but there is no background for characters, there are no motives, just the killings. There is probably some background story of the characters, but it is completely hidden. Even the ending does not make any sense. Basically there is no beginning or ending of the movie. It just happens to start and when the number of characters reaches low numbers (because they are being murdered) it somehow stops.What was that? Is this supposed to be some new form of crime porn or something? What has happened to the French cinema? Adding one brutality over another one does not create a movie. I have seen some computer game shooters that had better story which is actually very very bad.

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"

"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.

IMHO this is one of the best and most hardcore gangster flicks out there.It's grisly, sure, but also produced in a very realistic way, and the characters are extreme, most of them are utter nuts.It has french humor, sex, drugs and violence in abundance.But it also has an impressive array of characters and quite a complex story line.In short, prepare for a hell of a ride.I rank this one a masterpiece.Check it out!