GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

mrmatthewadams I've tried on a few occasions (mainly because I have a bad memory) to watch this film but it is SO dire that I have never achieved my goal. Life is short! Don't waste it on this amateur nonsense!

Tweekums Simon was a police officer in Toulon until he was involved in a car crash, after a bout of heavy drinking, which left three people dead. He went to prison and his marriage broke down but he finds himself working with his old partner again after his young son witnesses the latest killing in a drug related gang war. These thugs will stop at nothing to eliminate any witnesses but Simon, and his friend Franck, will do what it takes to stop them.If you are hoping for gritty realism you are likely to be disappointed; but if you want lots of action then you could do a lot worse. There are chases, both on foot and in cars, fights and shootouts. It all leads to an impressive final confrontation aboard a train as numerous killers close in on Simon and his family. This action is pretty exciting and at times quite brutal. Vincent Lindon and Gilles Lellouche do in impressive job as Simon and Franck; their characters have a good chemistry and make their characters feel real. The final scene does feature an unexpected, and to my mind unnecessary, twist although it didn't spoil my enjoyment of what had gone before. Overall this is a solid thriller; I'd certainly recommend it to fans of the genre.These comments are based on watching the film in French with English subtitles.

Leofwine_draca French director Fred Cavaye completes a hat-trick of exciting, exhausting thrillers with MEA CULPA, a film which pairs up the two heroes of his earlier films: namely Vincent Lindon from ANYTHING FOR HER and Giles Lellouche from POINT BLANK. These two larger-than-life characters are on the same side, battling a gang of murderous heroin smugglers in the south of France.Cavaye has clearly learnt plenty from his classic POINT BLANK as MEA CULPA is a film in the same mould. There's barely a slow or extraneous moment here, just constant thrills and excitement as the plot twists and turns along and frenetic action sequences regularly punctuate the narrative with machine-gun precision. The cinematography is top notch and could quite easily show more than a few Hollywood directors how to shoot action that feels exciting, realistic, and fresh.Lindon in particular gives an excellent performance with Lellouche happy to stand back and support him, and the supporting cast is well chosen too. There are moments of sentiment here, included in order for the characters and viewer to have something to care about, but the emphasis is on the action as it should be. Nightclubs, warehouses, and trains all provide perfect backdrops for the fast-paced and visceral thrills and what a thrilling movie MEA CULPA is.

GUENOT PHILIPPE I already know that Fred Cavayé is a great action film director, the best french one after Florent Emilio Siri.The reading of this feature topic scared me. I have still in mind the lousy script of his first film: POUR ELLE, predictable at the most, with a totally unbelievable tale. His second movie: A BOUT PORTANT was far better. Back to this one, OK, it is full of clichés, but the many action sequences are powerful, fast paced, thrilling, at first rate riveting for the audience. As usual with Cavayé. Vincent Lindon is not vrey often seen in this kind of action flick, but rather in dramas. I like that. He is pretty good.But there is a totally unbelievable scene - I'd better say some sequences - concerning the armored truck company - where Lindon's character works - that should have remained on the cutting room floor. How the hell a security guard - Lindon - can go to his company after hours, take some guns (automatic ones, armored truck companies in France never use automatic pistols) from the armored locked room, meet some of his colleagues in the locker room? AFTER HOURS !!! Just non sense?Fred Cavayé must have been drunk !!! The ending is very surprising, in the line of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE....I am not joking...From an Olivier Marchal story.