The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and finds an adversary in his chief and most dogged pursuer, Commander Broussard. Broussard soon corners Mesrine who is condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. With fellow inmate Francois Besse (Mathieu Amalric) he stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as Broussard closes in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to full bloody circle.
Film Crew
- : Jean-François Richet
- : Abdel Raouf Dafri
- : Thomas Langmann
- : Jean-Andre Carriere
- : Daniel Delume
- : M6 Films
- : Maxime Rémillard
- : André Rouleau
- : Mike Chute
- : Dana Niu
- : Marco Beltrami
- : Alexandre Widmer
- : Ludovic Bernard
- : Bill Pankow
- : Virginie Montel
- : Robert Gantz
- : Jacques Mesrine
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- Color
- French
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Mesrine's life of chaotic corruption continues, staying on the run from the law, staging yet another prison escape and finally facing his own mortality.-
Cassel, in one of his meatiest roles for some time, exudes seductive, dangerous charisma.
Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph -
Richet's movie, dazzlingly edited by Bill Pankow, the regular American collaborator of Oliver Stone, is superior in every way to Michael Mann's Public Enemies, whose hero, or antihero, John Dillinger had such an influence on France's Public Enemy No 1.
Phillip French, The Observer -
Cassel, piling on the pounds for Mesrine’s latter years, is on fire - this, coupled with Killer Instinct - is the movie that’s going to be listed when it comes to talking about the actor’s best.
Gavin Burke, Entertainment.ie -
Tonally different to its predecessor but just as engrossing, this dark wrap-up to Richet’s exciting saga sees Cassel go down with all guns blazing. A terrific conclusion to the best French double-whammy since Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources.
Neil Smith, Total Film
