Dobermann Details

This wildly stylish, tongue-in-cheek cops-and-robbers tale bursts with dazzling technical trickery, explosive action scenes and deranged performances, particularly from Tcheky Karyo as the scariest cop who ever lived. Energetic and bloody, Jan Kounen's comic-strip concoction has a fairly simplistic plot but slick camerawork and editing, as well as super-cool criminal posturing from Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci (who co-starred in the memorable L'Appartement), give the film a dynamic edge over the majority of recent foreign-language thrillers. If you can stomach the extreme violence, Dobermann is a heart-pumping, high-speed chase through the more commercial side of French cinema.

This is a film disconcertingly at ease with the hyper-charged squalor of its dog-eat-dog criminal netherland. The... read more on Time Out