Two Hours to Kill is essentially a play, adapted for the cinema, where the plot focuses almost exclusively on a waiting room of a small provincial railway station, while the police search for a serial killer, who has been attacking the small village for two weeks, and another crime is planned between the main characters.
It lacks rhythm and action, but it has the privilege of having two great actors, stars of the 30s and 40s, at the end of their careers, Michel Simon and Pierre Brasseur.
It is also a game, in which the viewer is invited to participate in the investigation, trying to uncover, among the silences and unexpected behavior of the characters, a guilt that insists on evading the police.
It's certainly not a benchmark in the genre, nor is it an especially intelligent or well-told story. It is worth it mainly for the opportunity to see two great French actors from before the war again, who, even at the end of their careers, demonstrate the qualities that made them famous.
