Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 picks up not where its predecessor ( Mesrine: Killer Instinct , which opened last week ) left off, but rather where that film’s first scene left off: with the imminent demise of its title subject. In the opening scene we return to the Paris intersection where Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) was murdered in his car, and find the press feeding unchecked on his perforated corpse. It’s a mirroring that doesn’t bode well for those hoping that director Jean-François Richet might make the second half of his saga from scratch.
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REVIEW: Vincent Cassel’s Gangster Saga Fizzles to an End in Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
