This is Robert Enrico 's worst film by such a wide margin it's hard to believe that director made very good works, "les aventuriers" ,"les grandes gueules" ,let alone "au coeur de la vie" ,one segment of which "incident at owl creek bridge" is world-wide known .
This is a disjointed screenplay , a cock and bull story which ends like a poor man's 'Bonnie and Clyde" , with would be poetic slow-motion pictures to boot.
Implausibilities begin from the first scene :a young man kills his fickle lover and her new beau ;there are plenty of witnesses in the restaurant , but no one call the police who later on do not seem to search the murderer who could be identified easily though .Then it's pure run-of-the-mill gangsters story: bank break in, escape from jail (they free all the prisoners ,including women ,which spawns an orgy ) ,informers , all the clichés in a disaster which crosses all generic boundaries ;there's also a stuntmen's show -in which friendly faces appear , in order to give the movie a fantasy nuance- ,pure filler.
With actors such as Serge Reggiani -already present in the highly superior "les aventuriers " in a supporting role- and Patrick Bouchitey (extremely bad directed) there could have been an interesting son/surrogate dad relationship .And Juliet Berto ,a cerebral actress does not belong here. For once,even François De Roubaix's score is subpar.An unfriendly look at the -probably gay- accomplice makes the movie even more obnoxious.
