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Ten years ago, ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former boss and moved to live in Spain, thinking that he can hide from the revenge. But one day, two hit-men appears and kidnap him, escorting him back to Paris. Now Willie has no way but to find his chance to escape in the long way, before receiving the ruthless vengeance at Paris.
Besides having a superb screenplay, Frears is blessed, here, with an unparalleled cast. Both Hurt and Stamp are as good as they've ever been, while the very young Tim Roth makes a very promising debut.
really more of an exploration of the disjunction between exteriors and interiors, and while some may find it slow-going, those who see it for what it is will find it an intriguing portrait of human nature
These guys don't have to use guns. All they have to do is open their mouths and bore each other to death.
August 30, 2004
Washington Post
It is a dexterously balanced killer thriller by the idiosyncratic Frears, whose every scene becomes a matter of life and death. A lighter clicks, a gun clicks; life or death, it all sounds the same.
Frears and writer Peter Prince have taken a potentially familiar tale of a gangland betrayal and revenge and made something richly inventive and most entertaining.