Daniel Polansky's Reviews > Three to Kill

A middling bourgeoise businessman is targeted for assassination, and finds himself forced to discover the tiger which has always lurked beneath his surface. Again Manchette shows an enormous genius for reconstituting hackneyed genre premise (in broad strokes this could be a very bad Liam Neeson movie) into a savage commentary on the hideous banalities of the modern age. At turns hysterical and horrifying, this is my favorite Manchette (no small praise), and something of a masterpiece. Strong recommendation

9.26.23 An assassination attempt offers a bourgeois father opportunity to escape his conventional existence, kill several people. One of Manchette's best.