22 bullets

Movie
German title	22 bullets
Original title	L'Immortel
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2010
length	117 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Richard Berry
script	Richard Berry, ; Alexandre de la Patellière , ; Mathieu Delaporte , ; Éric Assous
production	Luc Besson , ; Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
music	Klaus Badelt
camera	Thomas Hardmeier
cut	Camille Delamarre
occupation
	Jean Reno : Charly Matteï; Kad Merad : Tony Zacchia; Gabriella Wright : Yasmina Telaa; Richard Berry : Aurelio Rampoli; Marina Foïs : Marie Goldman; Jean-Pierre Darroussin : Martin Beaudinard; Fani Kolarova : Christelle Matteï; Catherine Samie : Stella Matteï; Max Baissette de Malglaive : Anatole Matteï; Claude Gensac : Mme Fontarosa; Venantino Venantini : Padovano; Grégory Gatignol : Martin Beaudinard (young); Joséphine Berry : Eva; Moussa Maaskri : Karim; Sandra El Ouni : Zohra, daughter of Karim; Mélèze Bouzid : Nadia, Karim's second daughter; Denis Braccini : Le boumian; Daniel Lundh : Malek Telaa; Luc Palun : Pascal Vasetto; Martial Bezot : Frank Rabou; Carlo Brandt : Fontarosa; Christian Mazzuchini : Bastien; Dominique Thomas : Ange; Philippe Magnan : Pothey; Jessica Forde : Clothilde; Joey Starr : Le pistachier; Laurent Casanova : Piéton; Xavier Lemaître : Policeman; Guillaume Gouix : Le morvelous; Lucie Phan : Pat; Jean-Jérôme Esposito : Rochegude; Cédric Appietto : Marco Echinard; Florian Marcaillou : Surgeon;

22 Bullets (Original title: L'Immortel ) is a French thriller from 2010 by Richard Berry . The film is based on the novel L'Immortel by Franz-Olivier Giesbert and is about a man who renounces violence in order to allow himself and his family a better life. The film is inspired by a similar attack on the Marseilles gang boss Jacques Imbert .

action

Former Mafia boss Charly Matteï is gunned down in a parking garage by an eight-man murder squad, but survives the 22 hits seriously injured. On the hunt for the assassins, he is confronted with his criminal past and the resulting threat to his family. Several years ago, Matteï passed the business on to his old friend Tony Zacchia, so that from then on he only looked after his family. First, he tries to identify those responsible without bloodshed. However, this behavior is viewed as a weakness and leads to the bestial murder of one of his friends. Matteï goes on the hunt for the mastermind and the perpetrators of this attack. He visits the almost complete killer squad during a birthday party and announces that he will kill them one after the other in revenge.

The police officer Marie Goldman initially gropes in the dark during her investigation. Her husband, who is also a police officer, was once killed on duty and his murderers were never caught. Despite the disinterest of her boss, she wants to solve the murder of her husband. In order to be able to confront Tony Zacchia, Matteï makes a deal with the inspector Goldman, who even has an account of her husband's murderers. The police obtained incriminating data via a USB stick that Matteï had detoured at a crime scene . The last time Matteï wanted to kill Tony Zacchia in his house, the police showed up in the middle of the fight and finally arrested Zacchia. In total, Matteï struck down seven of the eight assassins, except for his friend, the lawyer and new husband of his ex-wife, who was present at the attack, but shot on purpose.

Remarks

The aria Il Dolce Suono (also called the crazy aria ) towards the end of the film is from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti , which was also used in the science fiction film The Fifth Element (1997).

The film ran on ARD and 3sat under the title 22 bullets - Die Rache des Profis .

The film grossed around $ 21 million in cinemas worldwide.

Reviews

“The film, which is based on a real assassination attempt on a Marseilles gang boss, is a straightforward revenge thriller in the tradition of Good Fellas or The Sicilian Clan . Jean Reno is ideally cast as an ice cold executor [...]. Kad Merad from Willkommen bei den Sch'tis , cast against his comedian image , also provides a terrifying thrill as a top villain. 22 Bullets is not reinventing its genre, but it is still a hard blow to the gut. Conclusion: brutal, uncompromising revenge thriller with a great Jean Reno in the lead role and the mafia metropolis of Marseille as a backdrop. "

- Cinema

“Visually, the film is convincing with gloomy pictures in warm tones. Berry confidently stages breakneck chases through the winding, steep streets of Marseille and lets the bullets fly in firefights. The action is great. Rather, it is the scenes in between that shake the plot. [...] What begins as a gripping thriller quickly silts up in lengthy scenes that take the momentum out of the action. [...] Despite the great main actor, 22 Bullets has very clear jams. "

- The time

“Actor and director Richard Berry [...] succeeded in directing a thrilling and often fast-paced directorial work based on his own script. The tough thriller has atmospheric density and lives from the excellent play of its main actors (besides Jean Reno especially Kad Merad). [...] As an annoying commissioner, the French character actress Marina Foïs, hardly known in this country, is convincing [...]. "

- prism

“Despite its small discrepancies: 22 Bullets works perfectly thanks to the great emotional warmth that Reno exudes. So you like to cheer with sad old Mattheï when he does everything for his peaceful retirement. People also enjoy watching him play tricky games with the police. Of course, the story primarily tells a straightforward revenge thriller and creates a lot of humor through the scenes with Mattheï's victims, whom he repeatedly brings to speak - and then to silence - with all necessary means. "

- negativ-film.de

“ 22 Bullets is a grim, but consequently also extremely coherent action thriller that bridges the gap between its predecessors from the 1970s and the current French genre film. […] And 22 Bullets also pays tribute to the new French toughness, which makes the horror cinema there famous and notorious, in its rough scenes of violence: Killing, dying and the struggle for one's own survival are not a clean affair, but a loss-making undertaking. "

- schnitt.de