03-09-2021, 11:58 PM
A French soldier struggling with PTSD and opiates is transferred to Paris as a Sentinelle - an anti-terrorist patrol. Then her sister gets raped by a powerful Russian, and she walks the road of vengeance.
The soldier is Bond girl Olga Kurylenko. She's got good expressive intensity but she's runway model skinny so unconvincing as a fighter. Fortunately her stunt doubles do the heavy lifting, plus she's wearing military body armor during many of the fights and that thickens her up.
Den asked me to take a look and see if I had any takes on it. I don't. It's an okay film but I can't quite milk an article out of it. The filmmakers had a good sense of location and knew that Olga's majestic cheekbones should be featured prominently with every opportunity. The action is okay, not great but not bad. The story, well, I just told it to you. It doesn't go much deeper than that. There's no peripheral character development.
So no. I have no take. Maybe if I sleep on it, something will emerge. I was hoping for some angle into CAC (a French stunt school) but there's not that much there. It's rather flat overall, another rape revenge film. There's a distracting lesbian one night stand, and a random nekkid female officer headed to the showers (kinda French that way). There's a bathroom fight, a mansion fight, and some military fire fights. Maybe I missed something.
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended except for Yetis that like Euro-actioners and or DOOMers into prominent cheekboned Bond girls.
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