Simply A Masterpiece

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I enjoyed watching this film. Powerful acting from the cast and specially from "Philippe Caubère". I hope he does more films in the future in the "crime" category. I would cast him as the villain, bad guy anytime : ) I don't understand the negative reviews not finding a storyline here :) A good film needs to have your attention for its duration, and believe me this film does that. I'm from LA, the movie capital of the world. Nowadays films are made by the kilo here :) but there is no quality. Give me a dozen "Truands" per year and I'd be a happy audience!!

If you rent this movie, bring a long a peg for your nose, as this is an utter stinker. The main drive of a good gangster film, is the characterisation, the motives behind the violence. This has none of that, all it has is a grumpy Alan Sugar a-like moping round shouting and swearing. You don't care about him or any of the other characters at all, people drift in and out of the story without any sort of motivation. Its flat and dull, even the half decent car-park shoot out is spoiled with fake cgi blood. I will say one thing though, the torture scene with the drill to the knee, is pretty cool, but doesn't go any further than in the trailer. In fact, just watch the trailer, its much better than the movie itself. Proper wafty. If you want to see an intelligent French gangster film, with pathos and a sense of realism get 'The beat that my heart skipped'.

I love french films, especially crime thrillers, and films of this type. Dobermann by far and away is the best film of this type that i have ever seen. I bought Paris Lockdown hoping for more of what i'd seen and loved in Dobermann. I was left feeling let down by Paris Lockdown. I just didn't 'get it' at all - i don't actually know what they were trying to achieve with this film. Any chance of really showing and fleshing out the characters and story seems to have fallen by the wayside - which is a shame because it could have easily been a classic. The only decent character and acting was done by Benoit and Tomer. I don't know really... i'm pretty open minded but i'd have a hard time recommending this. This will probably sit on the shelf, or in the loft, for a long time now.

"Truands" is a movie I love because it destroys all the clichés gangster movies usually give us. Rise and fall of thugs, features where violence keeps close to romance,and where main characters are nevertheless sympathetic for the audience. And when they die, the same audience suffer in the inside. See "Scarface", for example...With "Truands", except some scenes where there are dialogs taken from "Scarface" - such as "You think you can f...me?!!!" "Nobody f...me!!!"..., everything is different from other pictures. There is no trace of sympathetic character. And of course no humor at all. Nothing to do with Tarantino. Every one is Absolutely nasty at possible. Every one. It's disgusting. If you wait for some moral or ethic, you'll puke all over the joint...No emotion either. Debauchery, treason and slaughter. Baths of blood all over the movie. Bullets, buck shots 00, riot guns, M 16....All the details for "Truands". In summary the real underworld.The character played by Benoit Magimel is absolutely out of his usual ones. Angel face Magimel is here a ruthless murderer, a professional killer. He and his buddy Olivier Marchall played a duo of killers which reminds me some American classic...----------BEWARE SPOILERS-------------------------And there is no end. Life goes on for the nasty ones.But I love that.It changes.