The lifelong crime spree of France’s most notorious modern criminal, Jacques Mesrine, comes to a bloody, blazing end in “Mesrine: Public Enemy #1.” It is the latest addition to the pantheon of great ...

Crime drama. Starring Vincent Cassel, Gérard Depardieu and Cécile De France. Directed by Jean-François Richet. In French with English subtitles. (R. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Crime drama.

Can you have too much of a good thing or a bad man? “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” is a true-life French gangster film so in awe of its subject that it can’t fit the entire story into one film. There’s ...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a French biographical drama film. The plot gives viewers an insight into the unchartered life of Jacques Mesrine, whose life started as a genuine French soldier but ended ...

Paris — As the players came together to make an era-spanning two-film biopic on larger-than-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine, there was plenty of pressure to play to his outlaw legend. After all, ...

“Mesrine: Killer Instinct” begins at the end, with a forest of guns and a close-range shooting, and then, barely giving us time to gasp, takes us back where it all began. The film, the first of two ...

In “Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1,” notorious bank robber and kidnapper Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), France’s most-wanted man, urges an acquaintance to quit smoking, saying he’s done so and that ...

Of all the rumpled margins of Paris, the Porte de Clignancourt is the most unchangingly grim. The tattered stretch of avenue between the end of Metro line four and the Boulevard Périphérique has ...

When last we saw redoubtable French gangster Jacques Mesrine, he was just starting to bask in the pleasures of being a celebrity criminal. Now, in “Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1,” the second film of ...

Note: Anyone correctly guessing the number of times the word “Mesrine” appears in this earns a small dose of satisfaction, as well as our respect. In the 1970s, France’s “Public Enemy No. 1” was ...

About 15 minutes before the end of “Mesrine: Killer Instinct,” I looked at my watch and wondered how on earth the movie was going to wrap up its saga in time. Then I remembered: “Killer Instinct” is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-François Richet, the screenwriter, filmmaker and producer behind some of France’s boldest thrillers such as “Mesrine” ...