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‘Lost Bullet’ Review: Fast Cars and Quick Fists

This tight French Netflix thriller reminds us how deeply satisfying action can be when you strip it of Hollywood flab.

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By Elisabeth Vincentelli

This impressively lean French thriller wastes nothing in its quest to deliver the goods.

Take the plot, for example. Lino (Alban Lenoir) has been framed for a murder he didn’t commit. The only way he can beat the charge is to find an incriminating bullet that the real culprit left embedded in the dashboard.

The director Guillaume Pierret, making a confident feature debut on Netflix , wisely doesn’t get bogged down in extraneous details. The brotherly relationship between Lino — a genius mechanic lifted from jail to turbocharge a police unit’s chase cars — and his protégé, Quentin (Rod Paradot), doesn’t eat up screen time. Neither does Lino’s barely-alluded-to romance with a cop named Julia (Stéfi Celma, of the Netflix series “Call My Agent!” ).

Only at the very end do we discover that the bad guy leads a cozy domestic life with a wife and son. A lesser film might have spent several precious minutes exploring that setup to humanize him, but Pierret clearly was not interested: Who cares about some rotten dude’s inner life? Lino needs to get that red Renault to the cops, stat!

This bare-knuckle minimalism extends to the film’s style. Pierret avoids the crutches familiar to many American movies: Guns don’t figure much besides the shot that gets Lino in trouble, and there aren’t big explosions, either. Rather, the action scenes rely on legible choreography and fluid editing. Whoever directs the next Jack Reacher movie would be well advised to study the set piece in which Lino kicks and punches his way out of a police station, and the final chase is straight out of “Mad Max” in its heart-pounding simplicity.

The finale is open enough to suggest a sequel is feasible. It can’t come quickly enough.

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Former stuntman Alban Lenoir stars in Guillaume Pierret's feature debut 'Lost Bullet,' which is currently streaming at the number one spot on Netflix in France.

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After launching in France in 2014 with rather disappointing numbers, Netflix has since become a major contender, with nearly 7 million subscribers at the start of the year and probably many more after a lengthy COVID lockdown this past spring.

But as far as local films released directly onto the streaming service, there’s still been a way to go, with middling first-time features like Paris Is Us and Street Flow leaving many to question whether le cinéma français could ever exist purely online.

The Bottom Line The Fast and the Frenchiest.

In flies Lost Bullet ( Balle perdue ), which, to get things straight, is about as far from a French film by Alain Resnais, Claire Denis or any other of your favorite auteurs as Marseille is from Los Angeles. And yet, as a skillfully made and highly watchable B-grade thriller, and one that takes pride in its many stunts and practical effects, it’s probably one of the best Gallic action movies to come along in a while.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Lost Bullet’ on Netflix, a French Action Flick That’s Modestly Ludicrous

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Netflix’s Lost Bullet (or Balle Perdue in its native French) is a chase flick with two-thirds of a story, and is probably all the better for it. Don’t even think about calling it “fast” or “furious” — I know we’re all aching in our cockles that F9 was shuttled to 2021 due to the pandemic, and need a ludicrous car chase blasted into our veins ASAP. Let it be known that Guillaume Pierret’s modest action movie isn’t a slick, megabudgeted exercise in OTT convolution, but it boasts enough silly rigamarole to possibly satisfy our fix.

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The Gist: Lino (Alban Lenoir) just drove a car straight through a building and survived. Neat! Using a welding torch and lots of ingenuity, he took a Renault Clio roughly the size of a very large ant and transformed it into a supercharged battering ram. His smash-and-grab robbery attempt worked too well — parked behind the smoldering wreckage of four solid concrete walls with Renault Clio-sized holes in them, his seatbelt jams, his little brother Quentin (Rod Paradot) gets away and he’s nabbed by the cops.

Hanging in the prison yard one day, Lino is approached by a cop, Charas (Ramzy Bedia), with a proposition: put your bazonkers mechanic skills to work for the good guys as part of a highly unconventional work-release program, and your sentence will be reduced. He agrees. And so the GO FAST BRIGADE is born, a group of living-on-the-edge law-enforcers skilled in the high-speed chase. Yes, they call themselves a BRIGADE, and the project is called GO FAST, because they’re apparently hardcore literalists. Julia (Stefi Celma) is a skilled driver paired with Charas, and Areski (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and Marco (Sebastien Lalanne) are the brutal duo who smash their Lino-fortified prowler into some fleeing drugmongers, unconcerned if the perps perish or not.

An early twist involving this and that finds Lino framed for murder, and running, running, running to save his heinie and find the blocky vintage Renault containing the forensic evidence that’ll clear his name (the title of the movie is Lost Bullet , remember). There’s a scene in which he reveals himself to be the second coming of Georges St. Pierre as he initiates a him-against-a-dozen-cops brawl in precinct 1 2 3, and we realize his hoodie bears the logo of the PRIDE AND GLORY FIGHT CLUB. So he’s not just a gifted wrench monkey, he’s a master of the way of the fist and foot or whatever, and he’s wily-brained enough to evade and sniff out corrupt cops, just in case there should be any of them in this plot. I’m not saying; no spoilers here.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: You’ll smell a little Ronin here and maybe an old Bruce Lee flick where he takes on way more guys than he can possibly handle but wins anyway there. It also brings to mind a movie you forgot existed but I didn’t, The Last Stand , a Schwarzenegger comeback picture that surprised me with its practical effects, sturdy direction and entertainment value. And there’s a funny reveal in Lost Bullet that I won’t spoil — but I will say it’ll tickle your Mad Max erogenous zones.

Performance Worth Watching: He’s not asked to do much, but Lenoir gives Lino an earnest streak that makes us believe in the hint of a hair of a redemption story buried beneath the vroom-vroom-screech and fisticuffs here.

Memorable Dialogue: “I need a magician. And that’s what he is.” — Charas sums up Lino’s skills with no hyperbole whatsoever.

Sex and Skin: None. TBWGHTTBOABVRTF: Too busy welding giant hooks to the bumper of a blocky vintage Renault to f—.

Our Take: Pierret immediately endears us to Lost Bullet by opting for practical effects over CGI, so those Fast/Furious comparisons are admittedly superficial, and fall apart quickly. And let’s face it, this is a modestly budgeted picture that makes the most of its limitations, setting humble goals — hey, be entertained for 90 minutes! — and meeting them for the most part. It doesn’t dawdle, it involves us in the protagonist’s plight, it makes the bad guy convincingly loathsome, and it all works.

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Is it at all plausible? Why would I ask such a question? To be an a-hole? Its relative far-fetchedness is one of its assets. Sometimes, we sense Pierret biting off a crumb or two more than he can chew; an early chase has a few hasty edits that later, more smartly staged action sequences thankfully lack. As for the characters, well, a little development would be nice. But the director shows significant skill, and adheres to his M.O. — GO FAST, of course — with satisfying results.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Keep your expectations modest, and Lost Bullet will scratch your itch for action.

Should you stream or skip the French action flick #LostBullet on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) June 22, 2020

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It opens with Lino (Alban Lenoir, an actor/writer/action coordinator/second unit director on a show called Hero Corp ), a mechanic, preparing a souped up engine on a small car and nervously strapping himself in, steeling himself for a crash. He picks up his Eddie-Furlong-looking little brother Quentin (Rod Paradot, STANDING TALL) and hands him a helmet, and we realize he’s planning to ram through the side of a jewelry store. Quentin tries to talk him out of it, thinking there’s no way they’ll make it through that wall in this little thing. But Quentin has a huge debt of some kind and Lino thinks this is the only way to save his ass.

It turns out Lino pimped that ride so well that it plows right through the wall into the store. And then through the back wall, and another couple walls, and out the back. From one side of the the building to the other, like a tunnel. But the car gets stuck and the cops are coming and he tells Quentin to run.

He does a good job. We see a little bit of the squad in action, high speed tactical driving in these “go fast” cars with bars on the front for ramming. This fantasy of giving an outlaw car guy the resources and permission to create the badass cars of his dreams is one of many little things that reminds me of 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS and the rest of that series. It’s done in a totally different, more down-to-earth way, but never at the expense of thrills. Crazy shit can happen, but you feel like he’s just barely pulling it off. The cars don’t feel super-powered; more like they’re being pushed to the limit, and liable to fall to pieces at any moment.

To Lino’s surprise, Charas gets him an early release. He’ll have to continue working for the police to get it, but he seems moved. Charas genuinely believes in second chances, and thinks he deserves one. The only catch is an honest one, not a trick: he needs to help go after some guys that his brother Quentin seems to be working for now. But Charas promises not to bust the kid.

Much of the beauty of the movie is the economical storytelling. All of what I’ve described happens early in the movie, quickly skimming over a bunch of time. But you feel a strong bond between the criminal and the cop. Lino is clearly so excited and proud to see the garage full of yellow cars based on his work, and Charas makes a point of keeping it a surprise, to see his reaction.

The hitch is when ( SPOILER COMING ) they raid an illegal garage and suddenly a member of their own team, Areski (Nicolas Duvauchelle, TROUBLE EVERY DAY, INSIDE ), shoots and kills Charas. Man, I liked that guy! The nicest cop ever, so he has to get killed by another cop. And Areski is a good villain because he wears this jacket that might look kind of cool on another guy but because you already hate him you look at his jacket and you think look at this fucking guy with his fucking jacket, fuck this guy.

So, Lino has been set up by cops, and most of the cops who aren’t in on it don’t know enough about his team’s activities to trust him. Lino tries to run, but gets arrested. He asks them to call Julia (Stefi Celma, HAPPY TIMES), the one cop he trusts. Instead Areski comes into the interrogation room, turns off the camera, and basically tells him he’s fucked. He had Charas’ car burned and Lino has his blood on him and no one will believe him.

After he escapes (a little more on that later) he finds out his brother tricked them into burning the wrong car, so it’s a race to find the one with Areski’s bullet in it and get it to the few cops that might believe him before the many cops who don’t believe him catch up with him, or especially before the cops who framed him can kill him. It will of course culminate in a car chase with him driving the fucking crime scene to the police and yes, he is able to do some quickie customization to that thing, with spectacular results.

Now, there’s no information to tell us that Lino is, like, a trained fighter or anything, but he can fight and he is tenacious. His escape from the police station is an A+ sequence that I think will make many happy because of it’s unusual insistence on avoiding the fight movie convention of allowing him to take on each opponent one at a time. Personally I don’t have a problem with that, but I know people like to bring it up, so I’m happy to report how genuinely thrilling and cool it is to see Lino being piled on by four or five cops as he battles through different rooms and halls and just does not give up. There’s alot of punching and bashing and alot of wrestling and lifting people and slamming them into walls and desks and lockers and there’s this fierce woman officer (I couldn’t figure out her name from the credits) who’s light enough that he keeps knocking her off of him and then actually tosses her onto a desk. You feel bad for her!

It’s this intense struggle, this tug of war to pull his body past these people, out of the building, at one point his finger tips literally gripping the stairs to the entrance, trying to pull himself down one step at a time. I didn’t know if there would be fights in this at all, and here is a truly excellent one, so original, and yet so natural as to seem obvious.

(Stunt coordinators: Emmanuel Lanzi [stuntman in BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, KISS OF THE DRAGON , DISTRICT B13 , TAKEN ] and Jean-Claude Lagniez [car stunt coordinator for THE BOUNCER and 22 BULLETS, stunt driving double for A VIEW TO A KILL , so I bet he drove that half car – something that is arguably referenced here!])

Another piece of this movie’s greatness is how much characterization they get out of simple, non-verbal moments. I feel like we follow the saga of Moss, the one cop who seems like she might figure out that Lino is innocent, mostly through facial expressions. And I love when that female officer I mentioned getting thrown around in the police station fight shows up later, climbing onto a car at a roadblock and taking aim as Lino approaches. We see scabs on her face, are reminded of her getting smacked around, and completely understand why she’s so gung ho. She may have no idea she’s with the bad guys.

And there’s Julia – Lino finds her and tries to tell her what happened. We realize that they’re more than just teammates when he hugs her. That’s also when we learn she knows some jiu jitsu. It’s so exciting when she starts to believe him, helps him, takes a fall for him. And then the most exciting when Moss lets her go and she hops in a car and we remember oh shit, she was on the team too. We know she can drive. It’s on.

This is maybe not crucial information, but I would also like to note that this bad guy muscle character Kad (Judoka and stuntman Arthur Aspaturian) kinda looks like what would happen if technology allowed Daniel Craig to have a child with Vin Diesel.

I’ve already said too much, but I will end with one final SPOILER : Lino is kind of a weathered-looking dude, but not an obvious action hero type. Yet, over the course of this movie, he basically runs a marathon of proving an overwhelming toughness. At the end, obviously, there’s no question about it. And yet it ends with him crying. There’s a beautiful reveal tying the specific context of the crying to the center of the movie’s action, allowing for this lean and speedy, kick ass action movie to counterintuitively end on a moment of effective emotion. And at the same time there’s a wordless exchange between our badass heroes so that we go out on simultaneous grieving and triumph. It’s straight up masterful.

The director is named Guillaume Pierret. He co-wrote it with star Lenoir and Kamel Guemra. This is Pierret’s first feature. Otherwise IMDb only lists one 2012 short and a few episodes of the sketch comedy shows Golden Moustache and Le Golden Show in 2013.

Fred Topel was the first to tell me about LOST BULLET, so thank you, Fred, and everyone else who recommended it after he did. I am excited to pass along their recommendation to anyone else who hasn’t received it. Check it out.

P.S. Here’s the Guillaume Pierret short film Matriarche .

He has some older, lower budget ones on Youtube that aren’t listed on IMDb. Clearly he’s been practicing at this action stuff for a long time.

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January 11th, 2021 at 1:07 pm

Saw this back when it first came online and really, really liked it. Kinda gave me a similar vibe to MR MAJESTYK, which I just saw recently for the first time – nothing fancy or extraneous, just one beaten-down dude who refuses to give up.

[mild spoiler] The final chase sequence into town did kind of lose me, seemed a little farfetched that he had customized that car exactly right for the challenges he’d face and also that there would be no way for the cops and bad guys to stop him from making it to the police station… this was where it got a little TRANSPORTER-y to me. (and I say that as someone who really likes some of those!)

But everything up to that was gold.

I eagerly went online to see if this crew had made a zillion more movies like this that I hadn’t heard about… sadly, no. More soon please!

January 11th, 2021 at 2:02 pm

Hell yeah! What he said.

Hands down my favourite online action release of last year, and this review perfectly captures what makes it such a joy. I will now have to rewatch it real soon.

Without wanting to get spoilery, there’s a clear setup for sequel, so bring on part deux: 2 LOST 2 BULLETS.

January 11th, 2021 at 7:49 pm

I loved this, caught it awhile ago. For years one of my favorite fight scenes was John Rambo’s escape from the Sheriff’s lock-up in FIRST BLOOD. I lost my mind when LOST BULLET took that and dialled it up to an 11. And I liked everything else about this lean, stripped down action movie as well.

There’s an economy of narrative in European Action Movies which I like. It’s like, if FAST 6 was in French, you’d just have Elena and Letty hug and the looks they exchange would speak of a shared history (we fucked the same guy!) without needing Ludacris and Tyrese ad-libbing in the back “Awkward…But Sexy as Hell!”

January 11th, 2021 at 9:59 pm

Just watched it and you were not kidding. It’s an absolute gem. The plot is a bit silly but the tone, the characters and the action most definitely are not. Loved every minute of it. Highly recommended.

January 11th, 2021 at 11:21 pm

Right on, Vern. I caught this one with a friend over the holidays, almost by accident. We were kind of suspecting a 2Fast4Furiouz rip-off, but as you rightly point out, it’s actually an engaging drama with great characters and imaginative action sequences. A very pleasant surprise, especially as we were expecting next to nothing.

January 12th, 2021 at 10:27 pm

Always been a huge fan of French thrillers. This won’t get a mention along side someone like Olivier Marchal’s work, but I liked it a lot. ROGUE CITY (orig. BRONX), Marchal’s newest, also on flix, is really, really good. Check it out!

LOST BULLET would be a good companion piece to the similarly themed GO FAST.

January 23rd, 2021 at 3:31 am

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember ever seeing a movie with cars flipping around where they actually put cameras inside the cars that are flipping over. And now I can’t understand why that does not happen in every single action movie.

January 23rd, 2021 at 7:49 am

I haven’t seen the movie so maybe they’re doing something unique here, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some version of the “camera in the car as it flips over” shot in pretty much every movie where a car flips over since at least FIGHT CLUB.

January 23rd, 2021 at 11:34 am

I’m sure I probably have seen it a hundred times but obviously none that really stuck with me. It might just be that I have a massive HD TV now so it pops off the screen a bit more.

You should just watch the whole movie – it’s excellent. But in the video below, which has massive spoilers, you can jump to 1:55 and 2:12 to see what I mean. It’s a cool shot, but it’s always the way that it’s naturally weaved into the scene.

I had a similar reaction watching RECOIL a few weeks ago where a car flips over but also smashes through a traffic light at the same time. Like, why don’t they do that whenever they flip a car??

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January 23rd, 2021 at 1:01 pm

I’ve been intending to watch it for some time, but it’s hard for me to pull the trigger on streaming stuff. I either watch it the day it drops or I put it off and then forget about it for the next two years.

March 14th, 2021 at 5:40 pm

Watched this today, and thought it was superb – thanks for the recommendation. The finale was a bit too silly compared to the rest of the film (it leaned a bit too far into the James Bond style crap that’s put me off the later day fast and furiouses), but it led to some truly great crashes so I’m not going to complain too loudly. What a great film.

November 4th, 2022 at 10:40 am

LOST BULLET 2 hits Netflix next week!

November 4th, 2022 at 2:15 pm

Whoa! I was a big Lost Bullet supporter and they didn’t even keep Franchise Fred in the loop! Fuckin streaming…

November 4th, 2022 at 6:45 pm

It showed up on my “Worth The Wait” list. Looking forward to it. Loved the first. Fingers crossed they don’t drop the ball on the sequel.

November 11th, 2022 at 2:52 am

Introduced my dad to this one and then we piled on and watched the sequel. It’s a little bit less of a surprise than LB1 and there’s some lovey-dovey stuff that may be… interesting to discuss, but still a worthy successor. A bit John Wick in how, after Lino’s exploits in the first one, he’s both an in-universe and out- badass, with some great bits where he Batmans through adversity off-screen because he’s just *that* badass.

November 11th, 2022 at 4:20 pm

Wow, LOST BULLET 2 was fucking great. Agree that

(mild spoiler ahead)

the “I murdered a bunch of goons in your house – YOU ARE MY WOMAN NOW” stuff didn’t play all that well, but the goon-murdering was amazing. When he slammed one dude’s head on the kitchen island or whatever, I gasped out loud at my laptop. And the car chases, of course, rule. Plus, new characters! When the main Spanish cop finished off one particular fight, I was again kinda stunned by how brutal the movie was willing to get.

November 12th, 2022 at 8:01 am

Agree! LOST BULLET 2 is pretty damn fucking awesome. The car chases are even more inventive and shot with the type of clarity that generally makes me weep for joy and the fights are ever more pulverizing and brutal, you feel every punch, kick, stab to the abdomen, knee to the groin and head slam to the dashboard. There are STAKES to the fights and conflicts (Hollywood, you wanna take notes?) And they even manage to make a retread of the hero taking on an entire precinct’s worth of cops feel fresh. Yeah agree, that the hero moving in on the bad cop’s wife was a little hard to swallow. At one point I was thinking, does the hero still need to hunt escaped Evil Cop? What better revenge can you get than cucking the bastard?

November 13th, 2022 at 12:37 am

Okay, finally watched it last night and I am inclined to call it a bit overhyped. I mean, the action was great, even if there was comparibly little in it. And even if the script had not one original thought in it, I do appreciate how solid the movie used all the cliches and tropes. It was good. Can’t really complain about it.

But what amused me, was how the cast kinda looked like the makers wanted to make it easy for Hollywood to pick actors for the remake, in case they make one. The protagonist gave out a Statham vibe (which was amplified in the German dub, because he had the Stats regular dubbing voice), his mentor kinda looked like Harry Lennix, the ex-girlfriend reminded me of Naomie Harris, the main corrupt cop had a bit of a Ryan Gosling thing going on, etc.

November 13th, 2022 at 6:00 pm

Lost Bullet 2 felt a bit like Quantum of Solace to me. It’s not as revelatory as the first but it’s still pretty damn good, and picks up immediately after the first. A little slow getting started but liked all the new mods to the car.

November 14th, 2022 at 4:32 am

I liked about part 2 that they didn’t fall into the THE RAID/JOHN WICK trap and turned a simple but effective actioner into some overlong and overcomplicated epic. Sure, they added a bunch of new characters plus some extra layers to the corrupt cops plot of part 1, but it’s not like the sequel is 2 1/2 hours long and Lino has to fight a dozen different crime families and high ranking diplomats because we suddenly learn that his father was the head of the syndicate that smuggles drugs across the border or whatever.

February 20th, 2024 at 11:45 pm

Late to the party on this, but this movie whooped ass! Like Vern, one of the things I admired most was the efficient, economical storytelling. I have seen this kind of movie and this kind of plot plenty of times, but it really seems like they trimmed all the fat off this one. It felt like every scene served the plot or the characters. There is not a huge amount of action, but it is well placed and paced throughout and builds to a thrilling climax that seemed to keep escalating (by the point where Lino is literally on fire I was laughing out loud). Lino’s situation always feels as desperate as in that moment where he is clawing his way out of the police station. Crackerjack filmmaking all around, now to watch the sequel!

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‘Lost Bullet’ Movie Review: The French and the Furious

The French have had a pretty strong action movie industry. It isn’t just Luc Besson . They invented Parkour (Besson did produce the District 13 movies). They have Sleepless Night, The Crimson Rivers, Brotherhood of the Wolf, and many more. Add Lost Bullet to the country’s export, and writer/director Guillaume Pierret is one to watch after this impressive debut.

‘Lost Bullet’ translates into any language

Lost Bullet is a classic story of an innocent man trying to clear his name from all the corrupt authority figures. That kind of plot is universal, and Netflix also gives you the choice to watch it in original French with subtitles, dubbed into English or other languages.

Lino (Alban Lenoir) drives straight through a jewelry store, four walls and all, but his car died so he got caught. Charas (Ramzy Bedia) needed a mechanic for his squad so he got Lino out under his care. When Lino goes with Charas on a bust that goes bad, Lino has to run. Without Charas, Lino’s just an escaped con so even the noncorrupt police don’t trust him.

This leads to some fun scenes where Lino tries to do the right thing, but everything about his situation looks incriminating. Even pedestrians are just going to protect themselves and not take a chance on Lino. Most importantly, this leads to exciting action when Lino has to get himself out of messes.

The action in ‘Lost Bullet’

Since Lino is a driver, Lost Bullet features a lot of car chases. Pierret captures the speed of the vehicles along with the lush colors of the French landscape in clear, smooth cinematography. The chases may be less elaborate than the Fast and the Furious movies. This is still a French budget but it looks like all the vehicular action is real, as are the epic crashes.

It’s not all vehicular action either. When Lino has to break out of a police station, he fights four on one. He has a little bit of MMA style in his moves. Another fight later in the movie is one on one, but uses the same graceful, brutal style.

They definitely saved the best action for last. The climax is Mad Max in the South of France. The camera stays on the car, and you can see Lino through the windshield. Pierret could surely direct a Fast and the Furious movie but it will be just as fun to see what his own encore will be.

Heroes and villains

Lenoir makes a good action hero. He’s silent and brooding. He did commit a crime in the beginning, but no one got hurt, just some property. He took the job with Charas but he didn’t ask for any of this. He reconnects with his sidekick Quentin (Rod Paradot) who only gets Lino into more trouble. Julia (Stefi Celma) is a badass mechanic and driver in her own right. She rightfully doesn’t know if she can trust Lino because she’s not privy to all of his circumstances.

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The villains are a tad more generic. The villain is a dirty cop, and he’s in cahoots with another generic crimelord. That’s okay though. These movies work because that kind of powerful corruption is always a threat. The thrill is in how Lino gives them a taste of their own medicine, and man oh man, he sure does.

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Lost bullet, balle perdue.

Directed by Guillaume Pierret

A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.

Alban Lenoir Nicolas Duvauchelle Rod Paradot Ramzy Bedia Stéfi Celma Arthur Aspaturian Sébastien Lalanne Patrick Médioni Alexandre Philip Stephen Scardicchio Pascale Arbillot Anne Serra Thibaut Évrard Damien Leconte

Director Director

Guillaume Pierret

Writer Writer

Editor editor.

Sophie Fourdrinoy

Cinematography Cinematography

Morgan S. Dalibert

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Thierry Mauvoisin

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Mathieu Ageron Rémi Leautier Maxime Delauney Romain Rousseau

Camera Operator Camera Operator

Benjamin Groussain

Production Design Production Design

Nicolas Flipo

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Ronald Grauer

Stunts Stunts

Julien Duverger Anthony Pho Charlotte Dequevauviller Jérémy Royer Alves Pereira Bryan Pierre-Henri Toubas

Composer Composer

André Dziezuk

Sound Sound

Olivier Mortier Roland Voglaire Luc Thomas Julien Riquier

Costume Design Costume Design

Véronique Gély

Makeup Makeup

Chloé Van Lierde

Versus Production Nolita Inoxy Films

Belgium France

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19 jun 2020, 13 aug 2023, releases by country.

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Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 2

One of the best periods of American genre cinema is when they were borrowing the existential style and mood from the French and applying it to their own bleak, economical crime movies. What's cool about this is that it's the French returning the favor and providing a slightly more patient Eurocrime feel to what's functionally one of the early Fast & Furious movies that were more grounded in the lowkey melodrama about codes of honor in the underworld of souped-up cars, drug-trafficking and corruption conspiracies. Think it leans a bit too heavily on archetypes and spending some time carving out personalities would've really taken this home but has some good, oldschool meaty brawls and impressive practical car stunts for its budget.…

Review by Bryan Espitia ★★★

Props for the mostly practical car stunts and solid action sequences. The overall narrative is as generic as they come but this was way more entertaining than I expected.

Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½

Lots of fun!

Lost Bullet definitely has a Fast & Furious vibe. But, more when the movies were about the characters and not all the crazy driving. Alban Lenoir holds it down as the lead, and he has some damn smooth fighting and driving moves.

Overall, Lost Bullet is a solid popcorn flick from France. Check it out on the Netflix.

Review by DoctorDrax ★★★½

"I have the best drivers. You're going to give them the best cars."

Zero expectations for this one, but I ended up having a blast with it. This French action film is pretty much the definition of a Friday night movie and completely embraces it's b-movie status. In a nutshell - An ex-con has his whiz mechanic skillset utilised to assist a police task force that's tainted with corruption... There's more than a touch of The Fast And The Furious about it (the first one, before all that gravity defying nonsense), The Raid also springs to mind, as does The French Connection and Ronin. If that all seems a bit much, it is, but it's also why it works. The…

Review by More_Badass ★★★★

Revisiting for the first time before watching the sequel, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself 180° on what I’d seen as Lost Bullet’s weaknesses. Had deemed the film as “nothing but cliches” with an uninteresting lead, but now I found the former to be a positive and the latter to be patently false.

Director Guillaume Pierret embraces genre shorthand and archetypes to deliver an economical pedal-to-the-metal thriller that doesn’t let up past minute 20, always driven forward towards more action or another plot development, even squeezing in likable characterizations amid the arguably too breakneck first-act set-up. Alban Lenoir’s Lino exudes roughhewn genuine charisma and underdog tenacity where his full-body full-send physicality speaks volumes in a less-is-more fashion. (That police station breakout is still a rollicking marvel of scrappy, scrambling stuntwork)

As far as modern French b-movie action goes, Lost Bullet’s one of the greats. Looking forward to see how Pierret ups the spectacle in his sequel.

Review by Mads Ej ★★★½ 3

This is a French Netflix action movie and I only really watched it because the preview on Netflix showed the main character driving through four concrete walls in a Renault Clio, which I found cool since I drive the exact same car, both the model and the color. I have never seen my car (at least not in the same color) in a movie before, so it was a sign that I had to watch it. The Clio was not in the movie for long though, but the rest of the movie was luckily still pretty enjoyable with some cool action and a decent story. The story is nothing we haven’t seen before, and it followed a guy, who is…

Review by Sean Gilman ★★★½ 1

The French appear to be dangerously close to surpassing us in vehicle stunt technology. We cannot allow this to happen.

Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 ★★★½ 4

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Each time I see a good French action film I think we might get a run of them. Then nothing happens for a few years.

And as Lost Bullet has been given the usual low-key release that Netflix hands to all its films that are not in English, I doubt this one is going to suddenly spark a whole bunch of French actioners either.

Which is disappointing because they've proved enough times they can do this genre real justice when the fancy takes them. Lost Bullet isn't quite in the same class as Sleepless Night or Point Blank , but it's good enough to suggest that if anyone does watch it, it too will get a pointless and…

Review by Vern ★★★★ 3

Man, if you're an action fan and you haven't seen LOST BULLET yet, go do it. Great car chases, and one of my favorite fight scenes of recent memory, but I'm most excited about its propulsive, economical storytelling. So much communicated so simply, minor characters have their own interesting unstated things going on, and at the end it pulls off a combination of emotions that seems impossible. I loved this one.

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Review by Nakul ★★★½

Solid flick. This was closer to the initial Fast & Furious movies than any of the recent Fast & Furious sequels have been.

Review by Sudhakar Kumar ★★★★

This crime thriller executes a simple premise to absolute perfection. It features a lot of car chases and Pierret captures the speed of the vehicles along with the lush colors of the French landscape in clear, smooth cinematography. But he saved the best action for last. The climax is Mad Max in the South of France.

Just like it's cars, the narrative runs at a breakneck speed, but it's not reckless. With high-octane action sequences and great car stunts, this is a 92-minute thrill ride through and through. Lost Bullet will scratch your itch for action.

Review by Comicbookfan ★★★½

A pulse pounding, exciting French action film that relies on practical stunts and in camera action. It has a excellent car chase scene and a really good fight scene with the hero fighting loads of cops in a police station. Has a solid main character who's good at the action scene and a character you feel for and care about. A strong action b movie.

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Lost Bullet review: Should you stream Netflix’s latest action movie from France?

Alban Lenoir as Lino driving modified car.

When it comes to action, French films definitely know how to deliver. Movies such as Sleepless Night, District 13, and others have made their mark on the genre while finding ways to get inventive with old cliches.

Netflix’s latest title Lost Bullet (Balle perdue) attempts the same thing and takes it a step further, trying to give it an automotive tune-up.

Is it worthy of being considered a must-see thriller on Netflix ? Here is our full review of Netflix’s action/thriller movie, Lost Bullet.

Lost Bullet on Netflix: Should you watch?

The film centers around Lino (Alban Lenoir), a criminal and expert car mechanic who is pulled from imprisonment to help work on police vehicles for a task force called “Go Fast.”

This is unfortunately not a joke. It is the actual name of the task force.

Once he works on this for a period of time, he is offered a full pardon for all the help he has done as a mechanic in making the cars indestructible.

Problem is, soon after, he is framed for someone’s murder. The only way to get his reputation back is to locate the vehicle where the murder took place.

If he finds the bullet at the crime scene, which is the car, he can win back his freedom.

The film is directed by Guillaume Pierret. Looking at his previous work, this seems to be his first major feature.

Because of this, there’s a level of grace when discussing films from first-timers taking on a bigger budget, which this one appears to have.

Some of the film absolutely misfires, but some of it also shows a lot of promise — especially towards the last 30 minutes of the movie. That said, it’s a bumpy road getting there.

It’s clear Pierret was ambitious with his first project, but the limitations were noticeable.

The main character Lino gets a rushed introduction, and besides crashing through a few walls with his armored car, it’s not clear why they require his mechanic skills or why they cannot find someone else to do it.

If the production was given more money, they probably would be able to show off Lino’s ability to make indestructible vehicles more with longer scenes of mayhem, but instead, it’s a brief intro that leaves us wanting more.

There are some distractingly bad moments of physics as well, including a scene where a driver crashes a car in reverse, and somehow the man sitting firmly in the backseat flies through the back window.

It’s not a deal-breaker moment, but it’s a sequence one might rewatch a few times trying to understand how it happened.

With general audiences, cheesiness and unrealistic physics might add a level of charm to their viewing experience.

Rushed character development and bad physics aside, the film has a lot going for it. The supporting cast is actually really good in Lost Bullet.

Charas (Ramzy Bedia) — the man in charge of the “Go Fast” task force — is probably the best character of the film outside of the main character and really sells the father-figure role to Lino.

Most viewers will also be talking a lot about Stéfi Celma, who plays Julia. She has some of the best moments of showing off physical action that would make most MMA fighters tap out from watching.

Then there’s the climax of Lost Bullet, which has to be commended for not shying away from practicality. Vehicles get flipped, torn, used as weapons, and then some on such a modest budget.

It’s the kind of finale that might bring back memories of playing the video game Twisted Metal and have fans begging this guy to adapt the property.

And this is also one of the frustrating aspects of Lost Bullet. The film shows us how far they could have pushed the entire movie despite its first full-length feature constraints.

Inside Lost Bullet, is a movie that wants to be a film that pushes the edge with vehicle chases and mayhem with weaponized cars. But it has to focus on smaller character moments that often feel out of place from the movie he actually wanted to make.

Overall Thoughts

Lost Bullet will not shatter the genre of action thrillers or chase flicks. It does show potential from director Guillaume Pierret and his ability to orchestrate and frame practical action sequences involving cars.

If viewers can handle a few bumps in the road, the finale has a lot of impressive moments worth sticking around for. It just takes a while to get to the juicy finish Lost Bullet has to offer, and some may not care for the first portion of the film.

All this said, for viewers who are looking to turn their minds off for a couple of hours, Lost Bullet will provide the medicine.

Lost Bullet is now streaming on Netflix.

Balle Perdue Ending, Explained

‘Lost Bullet’ is a simple yet effective Netflix action movie that thrives on its realistic action scenes and strong performances. With Guillaume Pierret at its helm, unlike most other actions flicks, it keeps its storyline pretty linear, and for the most part, does not offer mindless content. Although its storyline isn’t that complex and is only driven by action scenes in the second half, you might still not able to wrap your head around some of its underlying plot points or its ending. So to get a better understanding of the movie, check out our detailed explanation of its plot below.

Lost Bullet Plot Summary

After being caught in the act during one of his small-time jewelry store heists, Lino gets convicted and is sent to prison. When a senior officer named Charas sees true potential in his knowledge about cars, he decides to hire him as mechanic for the police department. Seeing this as a second chance, Lino loyally works for the cops and even modifies their vehicles in such a way that they have no trouble chasing criminals with fast-paced cars. Charas realizes that Lino had earlier landed himself on the wrong side of the road but is now willing to change. Thus, using his authority in his department, he hires Lino full-time as a mechanic and even reduces his sentence. Determined to prove that Charas is doing the right thing by trusting him, Lino vows to never get involved in the criminal world again.

In the meantime, at the crash site of another crime, Charas recovers an air injection from the car of the criminals. This is when he recalls that he found a very similar device in Lino’s car when he had caught him robbing the Jewelry store. When he questions Lino about it, Lino realizes that his brother is still involved with some thugs and he is the one who introduced those criminals to the injection diverter. Charas and Lino set out interrogate Lino’s brother, Quentin, to put him on the right path. But while they’re at it, Quentin’s gang members show up and try to scare Charas and Lino with their hefty guns. That’s when two other cops from Charas’ team show up and the thugs are forced to give up.

Why did Areski kill Charas?

Just when Lino and Charas get inside Charas’ car and try to take Quentin to the police station, one of the cops, Areski, shoots Charas from point-blank range. While Charas dies on the spot, Lino narrowly escapes with his brother. This reveals that the two other cops had been involved with a criminal gang all this while and just when they realized that their secret was about to get out, they decided to remove all evidence by killing their senior officer Charas. The two cops then use Lino’s criminal background against him and convince others that he killed Charas. As a result, Lino is labeled as a cop-killer and he becomes the most wanted criminal of his city.

Lino’s Plan

At first, Lino finds himself at a dead-end where he has no evidence to prove his innocence. But then he gets to know that after Charas was killed, his car was not destroyed but hidden. This car serves as a crucial piece of evidence since, when Areski had shot Charas, one of his bullets had penetrated the dashboard of the car. Even so, even after finding the car, it comes down to Lino to take it to a forensics expert to prove his innocence. And knowing that Areski is determined to stop him, Lino uses his knowledge of cars to modify the car in such a way that it is able to break through anything and everything that comes in its way. He attaches a massive steel guard on the car’s front bumper and when a roadblock of cop cars tries to stop him, he breaks right through it with his invention.

Unfortunately for Lino, despite his efforts to serve justice, Areski manages to catch up with him. While Lino tries to beat the hell out of him, Areski cleverly plants a hand grenade in the trunk of Lino’s car. With this, Lino’s only piece of evidence starts burning down. But even now, he refuses to give up and races the car to a nearby garage. Luckily for him, he reaches there on time and manages to save the car. With the front of half of the car still intact, the forensic team is able to retrieve the bullet from its dashboard and prove that it was Areski who shot Charas. In the closing scene, Lino finally gets to be a free man, and Charas’s half-burnt car becomes his memorial.

The ending of the movie also shows how despite being a criminal in the past, Lino was actually the one who had been on the right path all along. This somewhat blurs the lines between good and evil and shows how Charas had been right all along. When he was alive, even after being a cop, he believed in a convict like Lino since he could see right past his criminal demeanor. Charas’ trust in Lino also plays a crucial role in setting Lino on the right path. If it wasn’t for Charas’ faith in him, Lino would never have such a strong sense of justice.

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Lost Bullet review – another forgettable action flick in the Netflix thumbnails

Lost Bullet has its fair share of decent action, but everything surrounding the fights and chases is as thin and formulaic as such things get.

A great action film is a fine thing, but a bad one, or even a mediocre one, becomes an insufferable bore perhaps more than any other genre – and I say that as the resident RSC action aficionado. Unfortunately, Lost Bullet , or Balle Perdue , falls into the latter category; it’s a bland, thin, formulaic genre vehicle that sticks around just long enough to be grating before speeding off to an overlooked fate among Netflix’s crowded thumbnails.

Its small-time criminal protagonist Lino (Alban Lenoir) could have been plucked from about a dozen other films. A convict mechanic full of concern for his brother, reluctantly working with the police before being framed for a murder – if you’re playing cliché bingo, you’re in luck. With only 90 minutes to work in, there’s little time for anything resembling depth, development, or real intrigue. While there’s some talent among the cast, it’s underserved by nothing supporting parts that strike even less of a chord than Lino himself.

Of course, the action genre has an advantage – not all of this stuff has to matter so long as the action itself is of a certain quality, and Lost Bullet earns its second review star with some well-placed and largely well-constructed fight and chase sequences. For once an action flick isn’t overstuffed, but for once, since the plot and characters are so worthless, you kind of wish it was. What’s here, though, is perfectly serviceable, especially the vehicular action, even if it’s limited somewhat by how hard it is to care about the surrounding context.

Thankfully, Lost Bullet doesn’t outstay its welcome, and its singular focus makes it a decent proposition as the kind of unchallenging mush-brained entertainment you throw on after a long day at work or something. It doesn’t stand out in its field but it also doesn’t disgrace itself. That, though, is the kindest thing that can be said about it.

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Alban Lenoir as Lino in the promotional art for Lost Bullet

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One of the best services Netflix provides is a major platform on which obscure foreign films get to reach a broader audience. The latest international action thriller on the streamer has just about everything you've come to expect from the genre, including an explosive ending that can be hard to follow at times.

Lost Bullet is a 2020 shoot-'em-up from French filmmaker Guillaume Pierret. This is Pierret's directorial debut in film, though he has previously rendered services on three French television series dating back to 2012. The film's plot follows a pretty linear path through the first two acts, but the extended series of action sequences that comprise act three can be a little challenging to track.

Guillaume's story (he also wrote the screenplay) follows small-time criminal Lino (Alban Lenoir) as he perpetrates a jewelry store heist that ultimately gets him locked up. A police officer named Charas (Ramzy Bedia) recognizes Lino's mechanical skill and offers him a job fixing up squad cars for the department. Eager for the brownie points with the law, Lino agrees, and goes to work modifying cop cars so they have the juice to chase down all those speedy French perps.

With Lino finally on the right side of the law, everything seems to be copacetic — until Charas discovers a suspicious auto part in a car implicated in another case that he's investigating. The part — an "injection diverter" — closely resembles a modification Charas found in Lino's car the day he got picked up for knocking over that jewelry store. Lino and Charas work out that Lino's brother Quentin (Rod Paradot) must still be working with organized crime. The two set out to interrogate him, and that's when things get wild.

Lino has to clear his name in Lost Bullet

Alban Lenoir as Lino and Stéfi Celma as Julia in Lost Bullet

As Lino, Charas and Quentin are about to leave the scene, a dirty cop named Areski (Nicolas Duvauchelle) shoots Charas dead at point-blank range. Areski realized that Charas was about to discover his involvement with Quentin's criminal gang, and he decided that killing him and destroying the evidence was the best way to stay one step ahead of the law. Lino and Quentin manage to get away, but they realize the dead cop doesn't look too good considering their extensive rap sheets; Areski could easily pin the murder on them. As it turns out, their instincts are good, since that's exactly what he tries to do. Lino and Quentin are now two of the most wanted men in the country.

Lino realizes that the only physical evidence that can prove his innocence is the bullet Areski fired through Charas that is still likely lodged in his car. He needs to find the lost bullet — get it? With Areski hot on his tail, Lino recovers the car and uses his mechanical skills to turn it into a jury-rigged tank so he can navigate it safely to forensics.

Areski does eventually catch up with Lino, and plants a grenade inside the trunk of the jewel thief's makeshift tank. The explosive blows Lino's critical evidence to smithereens, but Lino is undeterred. He takes the surviving front half of the car to forensics, where experts are able to extract Areski's bullet from the dashboard. Using ballistic analysis they confirm that Areski indeed shot Charas.

This satisfying conclusion emphasizes the film's theme that good and bad men exist on both sides of the law .

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Lost Bullet 2 movie review: High-octane drama drives down the formula freeway

More than novelty, the sequel focusses on delivering gimmicks that would thrill fans of the brilliant first film

Language: French with Hindi and English audio options

Director: Guillaume Pierret

Cast: Alban Lenoir, Stefi Celma, Sebastien Lalanne, Pascale Arbillot

The 2020 thriller Lost Bullet is rated among the most enjoyable Gallic action entertainers ever, setting up a stuntfest amidst engaging, though simplistic, storytelling. Over the years mainstream French cinema has crafted the action thriller as a distinct genre that serves a very different flavour from the Hollywood prototype, sampled by hits such as Leon: The Professional , Point Blank , District B13 or the series La Femme Nikita among several others. Guillaume Pierret’s Lost Bullet (originally titled Balle Perdue in French) was a good addition to the list. A sequel was always on.

Lost Bullet 2 marks the return of franchise star Alban Lenoir and the story takes off where the first film ended. For those who came in late, the first film cast Lenoir as Lino, a small-time crook with a gift for customising regular cars into amped-up super machines. To avoid a jail term after a heist goes wrong, Lino agrees to work for the police task force. The suspense drama unfolds with the death of his mentor and his brother in the hands of corrupt cops, following which he is framed for murder. The ex-con has to track down a missing car that contains the sole proof of his innocence — a bullet.

Just as the first film, lead actor Lenoir and director Pierret collaborate as screenwriters for the sequel, too. The duo was clearly concerned about giving more of what worked the first time around, maintaining the high-octane tempo in terms of storytelling as well as the execution of action. The start of the new film provides only a minute lookback at what happened in Lost Bullet, to backdrop the sequel in the context of the predecessor. Briefly, in Lost Bullet 2 after the death of his mentor Charas, Lino is determined to nab the culprit. The cop Julia (Stefi Celma), who has a soft spot for him, returns from the first film, too, and gets a bigger piece of the action this time. A new narcotics unit is formed and she is deputed to lead its missions. The story touches upon illicit cross-border drug trade happening between France and Spain, creating scope for a highlight highway action sequence involving French and Spanish cops.

Lenoir as Lino is increasingly emerging as not just a mechanic, he is also a super driver with abundant fighting skills. Which in turn lets the protagonist be a superhero of sorts, with his customised car as a weapon of ‘special powers’. In a way, more than a groundbreaking narrative, the franchise screenwriters are clearly more focussed on the stunts and gimmicks that prop the drama that unfolds.

Scriptwise, a revenge drama featuring fast cars and criminals could remind of, say, the Fast And Furious series of Hollywood. If the Lost Bullet films have managed to craft a distinct space removed from the successful Vin Diesel franchise it is because Lenoir and Pierret render the drama a gritty realistic edge, visually as well as in terms of the violence that goes on. Without hampering pace or getting in the way of the action-adventure, the script of Lost Bullet 2 , like its predecessor, tries accommodating an undercurrent hint of socio-political realities in terms of ethnicity and class while visualising its characters and backdrop. Corruption within the system is cleverly highlighted, too, while setting up twists in the screenplay. You spot a dystopic restlessness as Lino and his modified car get down to the business of chase ’n stunts — it’s all very Mad Max in complexion but quite uncomplicated and inherently too French in imagination to be a copy of the cult Hollywood series.

The affect, however, is middling. Pierret’s direction is mainly focused on maintaining a fast pace while setting up the irreverent action narrative. Lost Bullet 2 is meant to serve as the continuation of an ongoing storyline but the film could work as a standalone adventure, too (to wholly savour the sequel, though, ideally check out the first film before getting down to watching the sequel so as to not miss the context of the drama and the returning characters). Pierret’s approach is persistently about trying to set up a milieu for spectacular VFX-loaded thrills, especially car chases, in a bid to regale the loyal fan base the first film garnered. The outcome should keep franchise fans happy.

For a film that narrates a story based on one course of action — Lino’s retribution and bringing the villains to justice — Pierret uses the runtime of around 99 minutes to set up taut pace. Faithfully adhering to generic demands and never venturing out to set up something pathbreaking, the narrative manages to sustain viewer interest primarily by creating drama in individual scenes. The frequent long-drawn violence and car chases render an effect as if the film is being narrated in real time, although the approach tends to get monotonous after a while.

Despite focus on a heavy thrill quotient that often borders on gore, director Pierret creates space for the odd emotional moments. Such scenes come as relief amidst the high dose of action but mostly add nothing to progress of the plot. The storyline gives the Lino-Julia relationship a formulaic twist. Since Lino is recklessly unapologetic while realising his revenge mission and Julia is a staunch lawkeeper, the screenplay accommodates drama that involves her chasing him in order to thwart his transgressions. Overall, the screenplay positions Stefi Celma’s Julia as the ‘good guy’ to Lino’s bad boy protagonist in the tale that follows a two-hero formulaic division where one lead actor idealistically stays within the limit of law while the other will go to any extent to realise what he wants.

Pierret’s direction is ably assisted by cutting-edge tech specs including cinematography (Morgan S. Dalibert) and editing (Sophie Fourdrinoy). Romain Trouillet’s background score aids the narrative sufficiently, too, blending generic notes with sounds of the street during the high-speed chases. Technically, Lost Bullet 2 is not as expensive as Hollywood fare of the genre but is stylishly sleek enough. Only, with a final scene that suggests Lino and company will surely hit the road a third time around, we hope for a few smarter twists in the tale along the way.

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Plot follows the true story of 10-year-old Joshua Dennis, who's lost, alone, in a mine without light for five days. Josh is in considerable peril and grows weaker but remains calm (he feels comforted by the unseen angel who's protecting him). He passes out on the ground, and it's clear whether he's alive or not. Outside of the mine, adults are worried and concerned but calm. Josh's dad frequently cries in despair.

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John Skinner demonstrates perseverance, humility, and integrity; he knows he has the knowledge to find the missing boy, but he's always calm and respectful to the authority figure who refuses to let him assist. Joshua is all alone in the dark without food or water, but he's confident in his faith, so he's never scared. Despite the difficult circumstances, adults never yell at or blame each other. Spouses are supportive and loving, even in the most trying times.

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Miracles happen every day. Faith-based messages and specific references to Bible scripture, including: If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can do anything. Also, angels are watching over us and protect us when we need help. The story offers a real-life example of how the knowledge and interests passed down through generations can remain relevant, even important, as society changes.

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When 10-year-old Boy Scout Joshua Dennis (Michael Bradford) gets lost in an abandoned mine in Utah, he stays calm and stays put thanks to his FAITH OF ANGELS. Hundreds of miles away, alone on a trip without contact to the outside world, John Skinner ( John Michael Finley ), who's writing a book about the very same mine, hears a mysterious calling that he's needed. The story is based on real events and is filled with Bible-based messages, specifically those related to Matthew 17:20: "Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

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While the filmmaking doesn't soar, the events in this earnest drama might just make believers out of some viewers. Writer-director-producer Garrett Batty translates the true story to the screen without much pizazz, and certainly similar stories have been told better (Ron Howard's Thirteen Lives is a great example), but there's a difference. Faith of Angels (which is being released in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the real-life rescue) isn't about the skill of the rescuers—it's about the spiritual support that keeps Josh calm (which likely allows him to not expend unnecessary energy) and the supernatural nagging that motivates mine expert John to persist in being allowed to help.

This story and its supposedly miraculous outcome has been told and retold in the Mormon community since 1989 as evidence that there are angels watching over us and that the key to surviving difficult times is holding tight to your faith. While, again, this isn't a sizzler of a film (you're never holding your breath, and kids might even get a little bored from time to time), it is appropriate for families. It's not often that modern movies depict adults as managing a crisis without yelling, losing their temper, blaming, or finger-pointing. Spouses are loving and supportive, and neighbors turn out for each other. The world Batty creates is, in many ways, bland, but to finish a movie feeling comforted and safe isn't a bad thing.

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In theaters : September 13, 2024
Cast : John Michael Finley , Cameron Arnett , Kirby Heyborne
Director : Garrett Batty
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Studio : Purdie Distribution
Genre : Drama
Topics : Great Boy Role Models , History
Character Strengths : Courage , Humility , Perseverance , Teamwork
Run time : 100 minutes
MPAA rating : PG
MPAA explanation : thematic elements
Last updated : September 10, 2024

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Exquisitely directed by four-time Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott ( War Horse , Angels in America , Company , Death of a Salesman) with a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz ( She Said ) based on Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir, The Salt Path is an inspiring story of love and resilience in a situation that might otherwise break most people, especially a couple entering their later years with little hope against an unforgiving system. This is certainly not the first film based on someone setting out on an ambitious walk for various personal reasons. Martin Sheen starred as a man tackling El Camino de Santiago trail in 2010’s spiritual The Way ; Reese Witherspoon played the depressed Cheryl Strayed in Wild , the 2014 true story of her 1100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail; and Mark Wahlberg starred in another true story, 2020’s Joe Bell , about a father who walks across America in protest of the bullying of his son.

After unreasonably being evicted from their B&B, having their bank account dried up due to legal expenses and losing their farm, this likable couple decides to fullfil a dream and live off the land as it were by embarking with just chump change on an ambitious walk covering 630 breathtaking miles, even as Moth has had a pretty devastating diagnosis. This might stop most people in their tracks, but in this case only sets this couple off in theirs .

The story from this point on becomes episodic as they make their way, stopping at various points and towns, interacting with the locals and relatives, bleeding an ATM dry just for enough to get food, and even for Ray getting a job shearing sheep. Nothing hugely life-threatening happens along the way, no sudden tidal wave or earthquakes, none of the usual movie tropes, but rather a love story of two people making the most of where life has brought them to this point. Of course to make this work, you need actors of the extraordinary grace and talent of Anderson and Isaacs who are entirely believable as this pair staring down nature as an antidote to the cards life has dealt. Both are excellent in essentially a two-hander, although they get support along the way from various people they meet or stay with.

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