Luridly handsome and resolutely unsympathetic, as played by Vincent Cassel, the title character in the gangster’s greatest hits compilation Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a thug’s thug. It would seem he was so in life as well: A notorious criminal in his native France, Jacques Mesrine died with his leather jacket on (as seen in an ambush depicted in the movie’s opening scene) after a life of unrepentantly violent, sometimes brashly vigilantic misdeeds.
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REVIEW: Brutal Gangster Murders Story in Mesrine: Killer Instinct
