SPOILERS.Vidocq: French murder mystery set in 19-th century France which started interesting enough but overall left me disappointed and unsatisfied.
First thing I didn't like was the way it was filmed,although the digital filming gives the film a very crisp and clear image it gave it too much the feel of a amateurish home movie and that took away from the overall dark feeling of the movie.I also didn't like the surrealist painting like decors,but thats just a matter of taste so I won't hold it against it.
The characters were poorly developed.Gerard depardieu appeared in only a few scenes mostly of which involved him fighting the alchemist,well made and complex fight scenes,but totally unnecesary to the plot.Etienne was the only somewhat developed character,but in the end you find out that it was all just an act so there goes that.I found the police detective investigating Vidocq's death to be the only interesting character,but again he was poorly developed.
The story is interesting and the ending left me quite surprised for a few seconds,but quite annoyed after seeing that there was no way of predicting the bad guy,reminded me of those annoying movies where you find out at the end that the mystery killer was a character that died in scene 1
I also got annoyed by how the killer killed his first 3 victims,It seemed an awful lot of trouble to kill them that way when he could just stabbed them or shot them,which led to vidocq finding the hair pin of which he just happened to know the owner which told him about the next victim and so forth...
Is it to much to ask for him to have used his brain to solve the case not just find some random clue that takes him to some different characters each one pointing the way to somebody with a little more knowledge.
In the end I would have liked less fight scenes,less fancy filming,more vidocq and more background of the killer 5/10 - disappointing
First thing I didn't like was the way it was filmed,although the digital filming gives the film a very crisp and clear image it gave it too much the feel of a amateurish home movie and that took away from the overall dark feeling of the movie.I also didn't like the surrealist painting like decors,but thats just a matter of taste so I won't hold it against it.
The characters were poorly developed.Gerard depardieu appeared in only a few scenes mostly of which involved him fighting the alchemist,well made and complex fight scenes,but totally unnecesary to the plot.Etienne was the only somewhat developed character,but in the end you find out that it was all just an act so there goes that.I found the police detective investigating Vidocq's death to be the only interesting character,but again he was poorly developed.
The story is interesting and the ending left me quite surprised for a few seconds,but quite annoyed after seeing that there was no way of predicting the bad guy,reminded me of those annoying movies where you find out at the end that the mystery killer was a character that died in scene 1
I also got annoyed by how the killer killed his first 3 victims,It seemed an awful lot of trouble to kill them that way when he could just stabbed them or shot them,which led to vidocq finding the hair pin of which he just happened to know the owner which told him about the next victim and so forth...
Is it to much to ask for him to have used his brain to solve the case not just find some random clue that takes him to some different characters each one pointing the way to somebody with a little more knowledge.
In the end I would have liked less fight scenes,less fancy filming,more vidocq and more background of the killer 5/10 - disappointing