Review of Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008) by Ruhan R — 21 Jul 2011

I mentioned in my review of Mesrine: Part I, Killer Instinct, how the film rapidly moved from one Mesrine-committed crime to another, with very little in between. Part II follows the same rapid-fire trajectory, but was a bit weaker than Part I because abrupt changes in Mesrine's colleagues in crime went unexplained.

One minute he's breaking out of prison with Francoise Besse, the next minute he's with a new accomplice. The director's method of moving quickly from one violent crime to another created more confusion in Part II than it did in Part I, at least for this viewer.

Still a very watchable crime epic, and hey, the later parts of The Godfather were never as good as the first part either!