Urgence
Urgence
| 30 January 1985 (USA)
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When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.

Reviews
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Manthast Absolutely amazing
Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
dbdumonteil "Urgence" is one of the many "political" movies which thrive in the 1975-1985 French cinema.This one is rather pleasant to watch because of the solid cast (Richard Berry,Donnadieu,Jean-François Balmer and Georges Géret)but the plot is rather thin and the implausibilities are everywhere.Good intentions -denouncing neo-nazis groups -rarely make satisfying movies and "urgence" is no exception.The final lines which appear on the screen -a device that was overused since "Z" (Costa-Gavras,1969) and are overkill in lieu of a serious conclusion.