
Milan and Jonas once were the best friends in the world. Until the day when they had to denounce Serki, a criminal psychopath, to the Mexican police. Six years later Jonas meets up with a devastated Milan: Serki has just been released and he is back to Paris seeking vengeance.... (Full plot summary below)
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Milan and Jonas once were the best friends in the world. Until the day when they had to denounce Serki, a criminal psychopath, to the Mexican police. Six years later Jonas meets up with a devastated Milan: Serki has just been released and he is back to Paris seeking vengeance.
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| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfAims to be a slick piece of action entertainment, but there's little imagination beyond the age of the lead characters, and while the feature is mercifully simplistic, it's rarely engaging, even as a violent distraction. |
| The New York TimesRachel SaltzMr. Marie, making his debut as a director, swathes their tale in a thick coat of style that teeters between cool and mannered. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeIt’s a mildly interesting thriller — Paris through the eyes of a director who doesn’t know how to make its beauty menacing. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSlickly executed with glossy, neon-drenched cinematography and a throbbing techno-music score, Paris Countdown sacrifices substance for stylishness, as has become the distressing tendency of so many recent crime dramas. But its fast pacing, compelling lead performances and frequent doses of action prevent boredom from settling in. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiThe likes of Paris Countdown have been seen before and will be seen again. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireA middle-aged bromance tucked inside a French crime thriller, a slick and brutal B-action picture that finds writer-director Edgar Marie channeling Nicolas Winding Refn channeling early Michael Mann. |
| The DissolveSam AdamsParis Countdown has style to burn, where “style” means “uses lots of lighting gels and some camera flourishes,” but it doesn’t have a coherent point of view or a solid take on the genre. |
| Time OutAndrew FrisicanoDespite the ingredients for a rousing shoot-’em-up (two-timing hit men, a slo-mo shoot-out, chartreuse-filtered scenes in Mexico) it’s hard to buy the leads’ mastery of this world of fist-pumps and violence. |
| Village VoiceSam WeisbergThe skirmishes are alternately silly and wan. The film's gloomy techno score is its most lasting attribute. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThis been-there-done-that story marks a pretty banal debut for writer-director Alain Marie, who seems far more interested in aping Refn and early-career Michael Mann than in finding his own style. |