The Big Shots (1972)
A typical french crime movie from the seventies
20 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The tale of friendship among thieves, bank robbers who are also stunt men in the same time. For cover. One of them - Bouise - has a daughter of around twenty years old - Berto - who is in love with a young thug - Bouchitey. This petty thief wants of course be in the run with the older gangsters.

They plan and operate on a bank heist. They first take the bank director's family for hostage, and go to the safe deposit boxes armored room in order to crack one the safes. Full of money.

So, everything begins to fall out for them all...

A pretty good thriller, poignant, heart gripping, with good action sequences. A violent picture. We also find the topic of rebel youth, through the love between Berto and Bouchitey. The friendship between Bouise and Reggiani is also intense.

The ending is devastating, depressing at the possible.
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