RABID DOGS (ENRAGÉS). (2015) WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND CO-PRODUCED BY ÉRIC HANNEZO. MUSIC BY LAURENT EYQUEM. CINEMATOGRAPHY BY KAMAL DERKAOUI.
STARRING LAMBERT WILSON, GUILLAUME
GOUIX, FRANCK GASTAMBIDE, FRANCOIS ARNAUD AND VIRGINIE LEDOYEN.
REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©
I bloody loved this French-Canadian film, even though it's got loads of guns and shooting in it. I
normally don't dig that kind of film too much but this one has a
great tight swift-moving little plot going for it and three or four
super-hot French guys in it to soften the blow. Yeah, you guys know
by now what way my mind works, haha. I can
forgive a film anything if it has hot guys in it.
Anyway,
what happens is as follows. There's this botched heist, see? I
normally shudder when I hear the words botched heist. It
usually means that what follows isn't going to be my cup of tea,
except in the case of RESERVOIR DOGS and
DOG DAY AFTERNOON, two of the
better bank-job-gone-horribly-wrong movies. I'd put RABID DOGS in
the category of superior botched heist flicks.
Funny how they all have the word dog in
their titles. Maybe it's a code name for botched heist...!
So,
this robbery goes totally arseways, anyway, and it ends up with three of the
robbers on the run from the cops. They're in humongous
trouble as people have been
killed along the way and now they're facing multiple murder raps as well as
robbery charges. It was never meant to be this way,
man...! You
know the kind of thing.
They've
hi-jacked a car in which a middle-aged dad is driving his sick
daughter to the hospital for a transplant. They've also taken a
hostage in the form of a beautiful young dark-haired woman whom, at the start of
the film, we see trying on sexy lingerie for some reason so we
already associate her with sex and sexibility, haha.
So too
does Vincent, one of the robbers, whom my friend nicknamed 'Danny
Douchebag' because he keeps
forcing his sexual attentions on the female hostage while she's
cradling the sick four-year-old girl in her arms. She should be
grateful for his amorous attentions. Vincent is bloody gorgeous. Yeah,
I know, I won't be winning any feminist awards any time soon,
heh-heh-heh. They
never even ask me to be on the cover of their monthly newsletter.
Those mean cows. Can't get a man so they take it out
on poor little me...!
Manu
and Sabri, the other two guys, are really hot too. Manu is kind of
the weakest link of the group of robbers and the female hostage, who
by the way was abducted a mere three days into her honeymoon (which might explain the sexy underwear-buying, now I come to think of it!), keeps
trying to appeal to his better nature, with varied success.
Sabri is
their self-appointed leader since their boss came a cropper in the
heist. He's tightly wound and seems to have something to prove. If
you look sideways at him, you could be
in for a nasty surprise. He's
trigger-happy and possibly a bit unhinged mentally. Mind
you, none of them are exactly walking advertisements for glowing
mental health. Even the dad with the sick child seems a little edgy,
but then he is being
abducted by three crazed robbers so that probably explains that.
We're
basically following the robbers over the course of one day while they
try to make their escape across-country in the hi-jacked car. They've
managed to steal the money, incidentally, but they've got every cop
in the country on the lookout for them because of the unintentional trail of
destruction they've left behind them, so God alone knows if they'll ever get to spend their ill-gotten gains. Thus far, it's not looking good for them.
Also,
their mugshots are being shown on every TV in the land so the lads
feel like rats in traps and tensions are running extremely high. The
action is fast-paced and it never flags, which is good news in a film
like this. Great music and some gorgeous cinematography add to the
overall excitement and look of the film, which is sexy, slick and
stylish and well worth your time, in this humble reviewer's opinion.
Watch
out for the Festival of the Bear, one
of the strangest festivals I've seen in any film yet, and the scene
with the poor old woman who's had the stroke. That bit's
heart-breaking. A very
powerful scene indeed. Keep a close eye on the dad with the glasses too, the guy whose car the robbers hi-jacked. He'll bear
watching. There's a stunning twist at the end as well, which always
helps to keep an eager audience begging for more.
This film, which by the way is a re-make of the 1974 film of the same name
by Mario Bava, was screened at FRIGHTFEST
2015 and it's being
released on DVD on 22nd
August 2016 courtesy of the nice people at METRODOME, whom I'm sure you've heard me mention before.
They've
been responsible for releasing some brilliantly messed-up films into the community in the past, much like- ahem!- nicely-rehabilitated mental patients, and I've personally found anything
with their name on it to be well worth watching. Don't just take my
word for it, though. Buy the film and judge for yourselves. It's a
top-notch crime thriller and all the guys in it are hot. 'Nuff said...!
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY OF SANDRA
HARRIS.
Sandra Harris is a Dublin-based novelist, film blogger and movie reviewer. She has studied Creative Writing and Film-Making. She has published a number of e-books on the following topics: horror film reviews, multi-genre film reviews, womens' fiction, erotic fiction, erotic horror fiction and erotic poetry. Several new books are currently in the pipeline. You can browse or buy any of Sandra's books by following the link below straight to her Amazon Author Page:
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