
On the eve of his release after five years imprisoned, the thief Corey is contacted by one guard of the prison that offers him a jewelry heist. However Corey seeks out his former boss Rico and steals money from him. Rico sends two gangsters to hunt Corey down and retrieve the stolen amount. Meanwhile the criminal Vogel is transported by train by the Police Officer Mattei and succeeds to escape. Corey drives from Marseille to Paris and Vogel hides in the trunk of his car. Core... (Full plot summary below)
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On the eve of his release after five years imprisoned, the thief Corey is contacted by one guard of the prison that offers him a jewelry heist. However Corey seeks out his former boss Rico and steals money from him. Rico sends two gangsters to hunt Corey down and retrieve the stolen amount. Meanwhile the criminal Vogel is transported by train by the Police Officer Mattei and succeeds to escape. Corey drives from Marseille to Paris and Vogel hides in the trunk of his car. Corey finds him but does not object to ride Vogel to Paris hidden in the trunk. When the gangsters sent by Rico cut in Corey's car, Vogel saves him from the criminals, but Corey loses the money. Without money, Corey decides to heist the jewelry with Vogel and invites the former police detective Jansen to team-up with them. The trio executes a perfect heist but Rico is seeking revenge and Mattei is an unethical but efficient police officer capable to use any means to resolve the case.
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| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottIt is not one of the crime master's very best, but it is so much better than most of what we are seeing now. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaApesar de jamais permitir que seus personagens falem muita coisa, Melville leva o espectador a conhecê-los através de suas ações, interações e olhares. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawJean-Pierre Melville's terrifically enjoyable noir classic looks even cooler with this reissue. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerLike escargot -- decidedly French and slow-moving, but exquisite when it's wonderfully prepared. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Stephan BoissonneaultIt makes you side with the calm collected criminals. You truly believe they are all professionals and you want them to get away with the caper. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyThe dialogue is spare, spans of silence run for minutes, the tense atmosphere is punctuated by unexpected eruptions of violence, and the film does not end happily for anyone. |
| Movie GazetteAnton BitelTop-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsBruce NewmanCercle's set piece -- which arrives well beyond the midpoint -- never has the carat-weight of the gem mounted in the middle of Rififi, but once it has turned that corner, the movie begins to soar. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe movie wraps itself around you like a pleasurably constricting vise, so that long before its climactic heist ... you find yourself rapt, on the edge of your seat, unable to blink. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectIn addition to political exiles like Dassin, France had been developing home-grown talent for a number of years. |