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Went to the Belcourt Saturday night with Stephen, Suzie, Art, Daniel and James. It was a rather late screening 9:30 but we were determined to see it. Or at least Me Stephen and Suzie were. I’m not sure how the others felt. I think we had all seen the trailers on the web so we knew that Jean Claude was kind of stretching a little bit the question on my mind at least was could he pull it off.

The movie starts with the action sequence from the trailer but it’s expanded and hilarious, It’s all one long take, there are missed cues, bungled stunts, several times Jean Claude has to take a second or two to capture his breath. Then your in the courtroom where the one thing that Jean Claude has managed to do with any success if thrown right back into his face. With a few economic scenes we are shown a man near the end of his tether.

Then Jean Claude stops his taxi to run into a post office/bank, and then suddenly it appears that he’s robbing the bank and possible holding hostages. Was Jean Claude that desperate? The movie then goes back and fills in the story around the corners, filling in just a few more details here and there. Now we see a man not only at the end of his tether but he’s fingering the release.

You’ve simply got to go see this movie. It’s wonderful. Jean Claude with the right material can actually act. The story is great and the cinematography is wonderful.it looks absolutely gorgeous.