Adventures of Arsene Lupin Reviews

I wasn't expecting much from this movie but since it was the first (and so far only) French movie starring Eva Green, I was still eager to check it out. Well, unfortunately, it turned out to be a huge borefest. I'm not sure if Arséne Lupin is well known abroad but he is definitely very famous in France and there was definitely some potential with the gentleman thief to make something pretty neat. Unfortunately, right from the lame introduction, the whole thing was pretty much hopeless (as a rule, if someone dies but you can't see their face, you can be sure that they are still alive which is such a very old gimmick). I won't blame Romain Duris, he was actually one of the very few good things in this movie and, with Kristin Scott-Thomas, they made an interesting couple but pretty much everything else was just so tedious. To be honest, you wonder why they even brought up Eva Green to the mix as it would have been much more interesting to see Lupin getting involved with a mature woman but, instead, they gave us a rather awkward love triangle. Concerning the plot, it was just so underwhelming, I won't even waste my time explaining why. Anyway, to conclude, even though the damned thing had some potential,  it was just terribly weak and it is not surprising that Eva Green never bothered to make another French movie afterwards.