If you saw this movie in a theatre then you'd have to agree, you get your money's worth. It's two hours long and precious little of it is wasted. It is categorized as a thriller, nothing else, and there's no arguing about that. The suspense builds deliberately from the beginning and it is not very predictable, just as a thriller ought to be.
Yvan Attal is pretty much the same character he is in most of his movies, but that's not bad. Clovis Cornillac, who I was not familiar with, does a great job as the villain; he's despicable as can be. You know he's a villain from the beginning but the extent to which he'll go to appease the vengeful yearning of some thirty years is what makes the movie works for me. Attal's wife played by Minna Haapkylä was not the most convincing; perhaps the ambiguous mental state we presume she's in has something to do with it. That's probably the weak point of the picture. I don't understand the low rating; if the English dubbed version was sharing vote with the original French version, as I suspect, it may have something to do with that low rating. Olga Kurylenko, as Sofia, is worth alone, a point in rating for euro-aesthetics; perhaps not my finest argument, but just go along if you haven't seen the movie.
Yvan Attal is pretty much the same character he is in most of his movies, but that's not bad. Clovis Cornillac, who I was not familiar with, does a great job as the villain; he's despicable as can be. You know he's a villain from the beginning but the extent to which he'll go to appease the vengeful yearning of some thirty years is what makes the movie works for me. Attal's wife played by Minna Haapkylä was not the most convincing; perhaps the ambiguous mental state we presume she's in has something to do with it. That's probably the weak point of the picture. I don't understand the low rating; if the English dubbed version was sharing vote with the original French version, as I suspect, it may have something to do with that low rating. Olga Kurylenko, as Sofia, is worth alone, a point in rating for euro-aesthetics; perhaps not my finest argument, but just go along if you haven't seen the movie.