Classic Besson : nothing much to see...

Rating: 4/10 (3 February 2013)

I can't believe this thing gets such good reviews. It's a B movie with money and good fight scenes, that's it. The filming is appalling, camera shaking everywhere (a copycat from the Bourne trilogy). The action scenes are so cliché : a car chase, some guys jumping from bridges, the hero getting tied up and escaping at the last minute, some corrupt law enforcers, and a pathetic final boss with his special weapon...
Nothing new, but it gets well reviewed because of some gross and dramatic background with the Alabanian mafia and human trafficking. It also plunges into the "Dexter syndrome", meaning as long as it's bad guys, it's OK to torture them. Yeah I can understand that it can be a pop corn movie some might enjoy, but that's it. There's no script, dialogs are terrible (poor Famke Jansen...), the subject of human trafficking (which is very much real) is pathetically used as justification, and the real bad guys are mostly Eastern European and Arabs while the bad French are just "doing business" and "providing for their families"...
Besson just had a little fantasy about a vengeful CIA agent killing everyone and that's it. Hard to believe he did Léon when you see this thing he wrote.