What a curious film - choice - for such a Hollywood vet; as was DAY OF THE JACKAL for another Hollywood old timer: Fred Zinneman.... Besides Michael Caine who literally steals the show, replace Gene Hackman by Tony Quinn and Fernando Rey by James Mason - Charnier and Brizzard for those evil characters, all with French names - and I don't even speak of Marcel Bozzuffi's role, exactly the same kind he had in FRENCH CONNECTION, and you'll easily understand why the "connection" between those two films is so obvious to make. Just add some vigilante element - very fashionned in those seventies days. It is question of Marseille, the most hoodlum, gangland city of France, because of the gigantic merchandise harbor and all the open traffics towards the south part of the world that means. It is action packed, short, maybe too short, exciting to watch. For me, it is flawless.
Review of The Destructors
