Those among you - especially French readers - who know the novels series SAS written by Gerard De Villiers during more than fifty years, know what it was about: some kind of mercenay spy who accepted missions all over the world against of course evil red communist dictatorships, or Arab - muslim - oriented governments, all enemies of the "good" CIA. This mercenary - Malko Linge - was a handsome man, blond, womanizer, obsessed by sex, women, action.... And anti communist dude who used all the money he got from his missions to rebuild an old Austrian mansion, a huge castle that belonged to his aristocrat family. So, this said, this character "The Octopuss" is the pure antithesis of SAS, some kind of anarchist oriented gumshoe who is proposed "missions" by friends, relationships of all kind or, more often, from news he read in his district pub newspaper, at the counter, against facists, facists, fascists or facists oriented "bad guys", or rotten French " oligarches, sects, BUT NEVER ISIS like terrorists.... If he did, he would be Malko Linge and not The Octopuss. The tone are totally different in those two kinds of novel series. There was only one film - or maybe two sorry - about SAS, and there will be only one for The Octopuss, at least so far. This movie is directed by Guilllaume Nicloux whose movies spirit, atmosphere was genuinely, from the start, very close to The Octopuss series. Guillaume Nicloux could have never, I insist never, been able to direct adapt a SAS novel on screen. In a faithful way I mean. I The Octopuss novels, you ALWAYS find evil skin heads, right wing extremists dudes. This one makes no exception.
Review of The Octopus
