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Un Flic (1972)

Crime | 98 minutes
3,49 250 votes

Genre: Crime / Action

Duration: 98 minuten

Alternative title: Dirty Money

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna and Catherine Deneuve

IMDb score: 7,0 (12.021)

Releasedate: 30 September 1972

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Un Flic plot

In a nightclub, Inspector Coleman and Simon, the mobster and owner of the club, meet. Coleman knows about Simon's "profession," but they've been friends for years. When Coleman learns that Simon is planning a major robbery, he is initially unable to intervene, but after the robbery, the trail leads straight to Simon, who vehemently denies.

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starbright boy (moderator films)

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It doesn't have much to do with this film, but what beautiful French cars that drove around in this time. Cars have never been more stylish. So infinitely more beautiful than the characterless uniform sausage of today.

Now that that comment is out of the way: the movie. The opening is possibly the best Melville ever made (from what I've seen so far) and really fantastic in every way. It's Melville who has pretty much perfected his style here. Unfortunately, Un Flic never keeps up with that. I don't really fall for the miniature train with helicopter scene, but if you've seen such a brilliant opening before, the film certainly delivers. The more so because the film would have been better with a different course because it is not very believable either. Although the film is still fantastic at times, the film afterwards never reaches the level of the first 15 minutes. Le Cercle Rouge I saw yesterday was much longer, yet much more balanced. And the credits could have been a little longer with that beautiful song.

Now I'm in doubt between a big 3.5* or a small 4. At the moment I choose the first, but if the opening scene starts to play a bigger role in my memory of the film, maybe that half will be added.

And I'm in the crazy situation that I've now seen the first five and the last four Melville films and not the four in between. They will follow if they come my way

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Robi

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You probably have to put it in its time, but I don't really understand the high rating. What a shady movie and what a dubious, fake cool, acting performance. Indeed, that first scene with the bank robbery is very worthwhile. But then the film descends to some kind of bluff poker game between commissary and gangster with his sweetheart. The action with the miniature train is very unbelievable. It ranks 119th in the top 250 best action movies.

Action movies aren't really my genre, but if this is considered a good one, then I'm afraid I will soon stop. What I did enjoy is the seventies setting of the film. The cars, the train, the decoration and even the telephone with a listening device at the back. I had completely forgotten that, but we used to have that with our telephones.

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Sergio Leone

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Bad.

The opening scene is promising: a bit dated, but I can have that gloomy look from the 1970s. Unfortunately it gets deadly boring afterwards. Alain Delon, but also Richard Crenna or someone like Catherine Deneuve: there is no one who not acts rigidly. Despite the limited running time, the film drags itself slowly to the end without a noteworthy highlight, one that I was very happy about.

1,5

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