Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (Part 2) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Jacques Mesrine was a theatrical, over-the-top personality tailor-made for the movies. When director Jean-François Richet (who directed the remake of Assault on Precinct 13), producer Thomas Langmann and screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri (A Prophet) joined to bring Mesrine’s life to the scree n, they quickly realized that one film wasn’t enough to contain such a complex character. Instead, they conceived a pair of films, which were shot simultaneously in a nine-month marathon, but were always intended to be separate and self-contained. The first, entitled Killer Instinct, chronicles Mesrine’s rise as an underworld figure. The second part, entitled Public Enemy #1, catches up with Mesrine after he came into his own as a public figure and popular legend.

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