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It's the near future. Chaos rains and our protagonist, Vin, is hanging out in Russia because he's a mercenary that can no longer get into the USA where he is from.

Vin is approached by a former mercenary buddy (Depardieu), now a big syndicate wheel, with a job that will give him an opportunity to get back home with a perfectly pirated UN passport. Vin must escort a beautiful young woman from a Tibetan convent to NYC without fail.

Enter the young french actress (pretty nice)and Michelle Yeogh. They begin their arduous fisticuffing and gun fighting across Russia, the Bering Straight, and finally to Manhattan.

This is a French film with all the French action touches which do different from ours. The action always over rules the plot and this one excels at that by incorporating close up killing and a nice cage fight.

The short of it is: The girl has been engineered (cloned) by her father and raised by her "mother" who is the high priestess of a new religion. Our French hottie has some special talents that will be put on display to attract millions of new followers to Rampling's new order.

I give this a solid 4.5 outta 10. Just too Frenchified with a befuddling ending (that so often occurs in Franco-film).

Follow Ups:

Not befuddling. Life-like. Most events in life - tinear 21:11:07 08/29/08 (4)
aren't understandable, are they?
Why did you get passed over for that promotion?
Why did that babe leave you?
French film--- in VERY general terms--- is less concerned with linear story-telling than creating a "feeling" of reality.
Kind of like when you're driving and a clown with high beams approaches and you have to look to the side of the road to see more clearly, ahead.
- Have you seen the film.........that's what I thought. * - mr grits 21:35:21 08/29/08 (3)
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  - The point of my remarks, as poorly as it may appear to your insightful - tinear 07:57:40 08/30/08 (2)
    eyes, is French film. Not THAT French film.
    - French film is one of my favorite genre. I own quite a few..... - mr grits 10:30:03 08/30/08 (1)
      and Huppert is my demigodess. Their focus is on character development and not plot or story line. There is no formula which is fine but you have to be French to absolutely cope with some of their endings.
      
      Stick to Brazilian film, maybe you really know that.
      - I minored in French lit, was one of the principals at our University - tinear 18:26:11 08/30/08 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: French film is one of my favorite genre. I own quite a few..... posted by mr grits on August 30, 2008 at 10:30:03
        
        film club which ran many French New Wave films.
        I was salivating over Jean Eustache's, "La Mere et la Putain" before you could spell Francophile :-).
        French film is far too rich and complex to fit into the cubbyhole you wish.
        Bresson, Melville, Truffaut, Rohmer, Varda, Chabrol, and many others revolted against the Hollywood formula, against the ideas of "hero" as had been set for several decades. Character development? Not a factor in many, especially New Wave, directors' palette as characters could shift in the same film, from scene to scene, adrift without logical framework. How to "develop" in such an existential free-for-all?
        Anyhow, we're far afield of my reaction to the original poster's idea.

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