An average movie

What the hell happened to Mathieu Kassovitz? After ‘La Haine’, everyone expected him to become one of the most interesting directors of his generation but his career turned out to be rather underwhelming. This movie is a perfect example. Indeed, it was apparently a labor of love for Kassovitz and he spent 5 years developing this comic-book adaptation. Unfortunately, the whole thing turned to a nightmare for Kassovitz who was apparently never allowed to shot the movie as he planned to do as the studio was apparently constantly interfering during the shooting and also during the post-production resulting in a visually interesting movie with a rather boring plot. It’s too bad because Vin Diesel gave here one of his best performances (apparently, Kassovitz couldn’t stand working with him) and the mood of the whole movie was pretty cool. Unfortunately, the story was nothing original and didn’t grab me at all, Mélanie Thierry looked fine but all, seriously, all her lines were just terrible... Eventually, the whole thing was just a wasted opportunity and Matthieu Kassovitz completely discarded this movie when it was released. To conclude, I wonder if the talented French director will ever recover from this mess but even though it could have been awesome, the end-result was really disappointing and I don’t think it is really worth a look.