March 04, 2004
duration: 85 minutes
xiaoqiang says:watched this movie last sun with Roger, Jol and Lip. It's a damn hilarious french movie. Please watch it with a not-so-full stomach. you wouldn't like to get stomach cramps with a full stomach.*grin*
Available with English subtitles. Depardieu (Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac) plays Quentin, the dumb half of the escaping duo. He is blessed with virtually no brain cells at all - a small-time robber in prison for mistaking an exchange bureau for a bank. Jean Reno ( Léon, Crimson Rivers, Godzilla) is the professional bandit Ruby - cold as ice and always working alone. Manners fall to pieces and the frightening lone wolf soon turns into a chased bunny rabbit, albeit one sporting a twisted shoulder, a shot arm and in continuous danger of a nervous breakdown elicited by his partner on the run.
All the way through the escape and the subsequent man hunt I expected some real action to eventually take place. Instead, Ruby and Quentin steal several cars, change clothes from lunatic asylum uniforms to a woman's colorful rags to teenager's fashion outfit. Along the way they also meet a beautiful refugee from Albania. However, not much is happening to resolve the problem of the money stolen by Ruby from the mob boss who is after him.