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A number of years ago, Monteal went through a major shakeup of the criminal underworld and as is typical in any type of power struggle, the openings in the ranks are filled by younger, more resilient criminal talent. Michel Jetté's Bumrush takes place during one of these underworld shakeups and features the story of a group of men who are just trying to eek out a living for themselves and happen to be caught between two warring factions.

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Not to be outdone by its New York City and Chicago counterparts, the Montreal gang wars of the past decade prove Canada isn’t the idyllic place of kindness and cleanliness some would describe it as. In Michel Jetté’s Bumrush, we’re shown how uncontrollable it can all get when the underworld is left without anyone to keep its tenuous balance intact. Learning about the inter-workings of bikers, Haitians, Italians, Jamaicans, and the bouncers caught in the middle from an inquiry made after the infamous Shark Operation of 2009 police takedown, Jetté carefully dramatizes the events into a sprawling story that puts us right in the middle of the action.

Who knew arresting the Italian mob and biker bosses would actually make Montreal worse? With those two peacekeepers in jail, open season is declared in the streets as the Haitians and Jamaicans vie for control. Unhinged and unaccountable, these two...

After he had directed two films, which means Hochelaga and Histoire de Pen, Canadian director Michel Jetté comes back with another film about crime. In fact, we can already see the first teaser of his new independent film Bumrush.

This independent film takes place in Montreal in 2009. During that year, a lot of investigations led by Montreal's police will severely hit this city's underworld that was dominated by criminal bikers and the Italian mafia. However, other wars of territory will involve new protagonists: street gangs.

These street gangs will wage a war against each other in a bar called Kingdom. In order to keep any street gangs - especially a gang called I.B. 11 - at bay, the owner (Patrick Lemaire) of the Kingdom will recruit a special team of bouncers. In fact, these bouncers turn out to be this owner's former brother in arms in the Canadian army. These...