Please don't spend money on this.

Better Late Then Never

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Paris Flic (french term for cop) and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime (how to fight it of course, mainly with it's own weapons). By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend (played by Carole Bouquet, the bolt-thrower-beauty from „007-For Your Eyes Only"; sigh...) he lashes back. Though the plot appeares conventional (indeed there are remote similarities to Berry's movie „Urgence") the movie is still today a solid thriller. The two leading acts are playing very well and are for both male and female viewers something to look for. The action and suspense are the straight french-school from the 80s, that if you know and expect it, might like anyway. I do. Particularly the power-lift scene in the garage and the closing-scene are –though no real surprise- from the quite satisfying kind. The french film-industry owes David Ackermann still a sequel !