Word: grisbi
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...huge bundle of stolen money that both sides are after, and various lesser mobsters that are always either being tortured or getting killed. This formula is slightly varied for each production, but the denouement is always the same; almost everyone dies violently, and no one gets the money. Grisbi follows this excellent tradition, except it isn't very good...
Perhaps the main difficulty with Grisbi is that it clings so tenaciously to the usual pattern that there is little room left for originality or for that special ironic humor that is so often found in its more exemplary cousins. It is an altogether tired movie about weary criminals who have pulled their last job and want to retire...
...Grisbi is too much even for Gabin. And the rest of the cast plods through this meandering script with about as much determination as a group of students heading for a nine o'clock class. Even the machine-gun fire moves slowly...
Although marred my extremely pretentious narration, Les Mistons is sensitively and sympathetically directed, and performed in an almost improvisatory manner. Brisk and entirely entrancing, it is everything Grisbi...
French crime movies are undoubtedly the best of the species, and Inspector Maigret is no exception. In the great tradition of Rififi and Grisbi, Inspector Maigret combines suspense with psychopathy and murder to produce a superlative detective story...