Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shoot Them...
...frightened when rocks shattered windows in their church. A 16-year-old Indonesian girl was attacked by young Dutch toughs. Dutch newspaper offices and The Netherlands Justice Ministry were flooded with thousands of letters, many of them demanding a government decision to, as one outraged citizen put it bluntly, "shoot the bastards...
...punish women of "loose moral." Another, unrelated, killer keeps popping up at odd moments; we learn that he had repeatedly outsmarted Le Tellier in the past and that he had almost cost the cop his job because of uncertainty concerning the death of a bystander during one of their shoot-outs. Verneuil gives us a flashback of those events as well as a good deal of footage of the killer's return, when Le Tellier abandons his current assignment to settle that old score...
...material on the secondary killer does provide an excuse for additional chase sequences and shoot-outs, but it would have been easy enough to incorporate them into the main plot. Action thrillers need not be as sophisticated or insightful as psychological thrillers, but they must be tightly structured to keep us in suspense about the outcome of the primary plot. The extraneous sequences on the killer from the past break the tension of the main manhunt. As a result, we lose most of our interest in the denouement...
Superb camera work is the film's redeeming feature, and is responsible for what little suspense Verneuil projects. A rooftop shoot-out in which Minos loses his glass eye is particularly effective. Belmondo does most of his own stunt work; seeing him in close-up action sequences contributes some sense of involvement with the hero...