Tenero e violento

This is the last action film in which Jean Paul Belmondo played. He began in 1963 with L'HOMME DE RIO, in terms of action films, proceeded with PEUR SUR LA VILLE, L'ALPAGUEUR, LE GUIGNOLO, LE PROFESSIONEL and LE MARGINAL before finishing with this crime flick destined to movie theaters but that looked like a TV film. Let's be honest, this is not LE PROFESSIONEL nor LE MARGINAL; the director Jacques Deray, with whom Belmondo made several movies including BORSALINO, was not very concerned with this story, very lousy, predictable, as any TF1 crime series episodes. Moulin TV show is even better than this deception. There was no gross with this film, that's the reason why Belmondo stopped making action films. Jean Pierre Malo is the only good surprise in a convincing villain character. Only gunfights scenes are OK.