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Nid de Guipes (The Nest) (2002)

April 21st 2008 13:23


Starring: Samy Naceri, Benoit Magimel, Nadia, Fares, Pascal Greggory, Sami Bouajila
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Screenplay: Florent Emilio Siri, Jean-Francois Tarnowski

Running Time: 107 minutes


FRENCH take on Assault of Precinct 13 is a good little number that comes with an interesting, albeit flawed, synopsis that makes it just as good as the John Carpenter original.
A group of thieves decide to pull a heist on a high-tech facility based in a barren industrial estate in the middle of the night. Job seems simple enough and everything is in place for the raid to be a success. Cue a French special forces team who are escorting Albanian mafioso Abedin Nexhep to a European court to stand trial for being in charge of a massive prostitution ring. The route they take just happens to be going past the exact same factory the aforementioned criminal gang are going to knock off. Special forces get ambushed by war criminal’s henchmen forcing them to seek refuge in the factory. Stage is now set for a siege of bloody proportions.
Set pieces are well constructed, and the camerawork is fast-paced without losing the viewer. Talent is all good, with a nice turn from Naceri as the defacto leader of thieves, and Fares is believable as the female head of the special forces. Only thing that left me wondering out loud was how a legion of Albanian gangsters not only managed to get in France unnoticed, but managed to do so with a cache of weapons that could arm a small third-world dictatorship.
Like Assault of Precinct 13 theme asks what would happen when two forces on opposing sides of the law are set together for the common good and thus the ambiguities that present themselves in such a scenario.

3.5 stars out of 5

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