badajoz-1 Review of Anything for Her

Anything for Her (2008)

Another Good French Thriller - Where are you Hollywood?

[8/10 · 15 July 2009]

A very good French thriller - pacy, believable, you care for the main characters, and the ultimate element in a good thriller 'They can't possibly pull it off - can they?' The story is of a wife wrongly imprisoned for murder, who can't hack prison, so that her ordinary husband has to devise a way of freeing her and getting away with it! At 96 minutes it works, except for a bit of slackness in the middle, with excellent acting, good cutting, some controlled violence,and sex that is integral to the plot and motivation. Simple driving theme with a powerful elliptical turn of good and bad, when you expect a doleful French cinematic ending or a hail of bullets at any moment in the conclusion gives some very good entertainment - something Hollywood seems to have lost amidst CGI-fests. One word of caution to Paul Haggis, who is slated to direct a US version, no star face in the lead male role or the whole delicate structure will be fatally undermined.