What if/when habits and hobbies govern your life...

Rating: 8/10 (28 October 2012)

Is it possible to change, for example, through love, different profession, new circle? When a healthy competition and rivalry becomes a pig-headed and dangerous race with time? Will some people never "grow up"? Those issues/questions are strongly at present in this splendid film by Luc Besson, different from most of his other films. I really enjoyed it in spite of the context uninteresting to me (free-diving). But thanks to subtle dialogs, beautiful landscape, suitable music score and talented cast it is no wonder, that we do here with one of the most successful French films ever.
All the actors are premium, but Jean Reno still outperforms all others, including Jean-Marc Barr and Rosanna Arquette. As for the latter, I would have chosen an actress with a more oval face, let's say :). Jean Bouis does a grand small performance as Uncle Louis.
Usually I am biased to watch films over 2,5 hours, but this one did not become dull or boring, even the long water-related scenes were appropriate.