'Lost Bullet' A Review

Lost Bullet is a French action/thriller about a mechanic Lino(Alban Lenoir) who gets imprisoned after a botched robbery. He's given a job by Charas(Ramzy Bedia) a cop who heads a drug enforcement task force in order to soup up their cruisers in order to catch drug traffickers. On the day Charas offers Lino parole and an actual job on the squad a violent betrayal puts Lino on the run.

Lenoir is a dynamic lead, competent, driven, emotionally restrained with moments of crescendo. Bedia plays a great good cop and has great chemistry with Lenoir. The supporting cast of drug runners and cops are all great, hard-boiled and present, if not totally dynamic but this isn't a drama and the focus is on Lino and his go-for-broke pedal-to-the-metal journey.

In the mold of Heat crossed with Gone In 60 Seconds(but without the humor) Lost Bullet is an entertaining, well paced, propulsive film with some inventive action and enough story to hold together. A surprising, fun French flick in the American blockbuster mold.

Currently streaming on Netflix.

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