This reviewer was expecting to see Jean Gabin again, after having starred as "Max le Menteur" in Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and The Counterfeiters of Paris - original title: Le cave se rebiffe (1961). Instead, Lino Ventura is now the antihero of the story.
Michel Audiart's dialogues are not as funny and sharp as in the previous films, the gun fight in the backyard is just ridiculous (the attempt at slapstick comedy with the hard-of-hearing old man fails miserably) and the famous kitchen scene only shows very bad "drunk acting".
Not to mention Ventura's obvious wrestling moves and the absence of a decent plot.
Michel Audiart's dialogues are not as funny and sharp as in the previous films, the gun fight in the backyard is just ridiculous (the attempt at slapstick comedy with the hard-of-hearing old man fails miserably) and the famous kitchen scene only shows very bad "drunk acting".
Not to mention Ventura's obvious wrestling moves and the absence of a decent plot.