Director: Régis Blondeau
Cast: Franck Gastambide , Simon Abkarian , Jemima West , Michaël Abiteboul , Tracy Gotoas , Victoire Zenner , Serge Hazanavicius , Michaël Perez , Nabil Missoumi , Laurence Briand (inf)
Plot: After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
My Movie Review: The movie is so cool in visual effects this is a decent effort in that aspect! Corrupt cops that we somehow root for but not en this movie starts off well and delivers a good story, ok we have to suspend belief at times but all in all, this is well worth a watch with excess! Restless is a 2022 French action thriller film directed by Régis Blondeau, written by Régis Blondeau and Julien Colombani and starring Franck Gastambide, Simon Abkarian and Michaël Abiteboul. It is based on the 2014 South Korean film A Hard Day by Kim Seong-hun. At the beginning of the movie people can wonder about the mysterious dead body on the road the story is a mystery but then great thriller movie! The director created the forms and the colors to create an atmosphere uniquely exhilarating; creating a necessity to know and find out what is going on in the story and what is the following events that it brings along with him. And then without realizing it, we suddenly get caught inside the film mystery and intrigue. The film itself creates an environment that is grisly. Under cover of night Thomas returns to his mother's grave and exhumes Barcelo, bringing him back to the boatyard where he was seemingly living with the dog. After plugging in Barcelo's phone it rings and Thomas answers, but the man on the other end realises it isn't Barcelo and hangs up! A film that slightly takes you deep inside a world of despair, revenge
and anger, in a search for something we are intended to understand!!
Critics Reviews: Restless is rewarding enough in its cat-and-mouse game between a corrupt cop and his even more corrupt cop adversary to forgive its issues with pace and tone. Restless begins at a fever pitch and has almost no place to go from there. Everyone featured is involved in foul play. “Restless” bounces around, seemingly unsure of what kind of movie it wants to be. Or maybe it does know but can’t quite bring this elements together in satisfying way. Restless made me wonder why I am expected to feel sympathy for the bad guy. Or even follow him, for that matter. Restless takes its time moving its pieces into place. But once
it clatters into gear and gets moving as the dirty cops versus even
dirtier cops thriller it’s aiming to be, there’s a kind of glee in
getting to root for the dirty lawman who’s stepped into an even bigger
pile of shit than he ever created personally. To get there, you have to
accept that the guy who decided to hide a corpse inside his own mother’s
coffin is actually a decent dude who deserves a break from the
audience. But once Thomas is locked into his battle of wills with
Marelli, a guy who wears his evil-doing like a topcoat, Restless becomes a race to the bottom of a corruption scheme that’s too big to fail. Shocking death blow down at the port facility re-created wholesale from the film being remade, and Restless has its dark thriller elements in place enough to make up for its sluggish beginning, Desperate, he stuffs the body in his trunk. Even more desperate, he then manages to finagle the corpse into her coffin alongside his mom that shock!
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