A policeman whose teenage daughter dies from a heroin overdose rounds up a team of ordinary people whose lives were affected by drugs to perform the extermination of the members of the French drug cartel who is responsible for supplying the American market.
The outrageously comic-book-ish plot is unfortunately unable to inject juvenile fun into this action thriller, thanks to the predominantly serious tone and extremely laid-back pace. Still, it is very well filmed and at least one sequence is fairly impressive, a very well done car chase. The basic assumption is that killing rich criminals is more effective than killing poor ones. That is not very convincing; even Mafia bosses are replaced pretty quickly, and anyway France was also a middleman in the drug business, since it did not produce them. Arguably, from a social justice angle it does make for a more satisfying revenge, and maybe that is the unspoken point of this unexciting movie.
Rating: 33
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