FRANCE: Secret Agents (Agents Secrets). 2004

Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Ludovic Schoendoerffer.
Release date: France - March 2004
Length: 109 mins

Real life married couple Cassel & Belluci star in a big action flick about spies. Like duh! Why this never had a release here with the 2 names attached is anybodies guess. It looks to be entertaining enough in the trailer, but maybe it's big multiplex look was it's downfall. Hell, I watch Hollywood flicks as much as the next person, every country should at least be able to compete with those types of films by making thier own. France has been making these type of flicks for years. Thanks in part to Luc Besson. Cinema for the masses is not a bad thing. As long as they are well crafted, competent & entertaining. Room for everyone.

Still no DVD release with English Subs. I'm looking forward to his next flick that just finished shooting last month, Truands (Gangsters). It sounds pretty full on. Paris, organised crime, hitmen, corpses, narcotics, prison. Sounds like it has it all, Gallic style.

Synopsis
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...

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