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The year 1979 was the year in which Jacques Mesrine, a notorious French bankrobber,
murderer, media darling and compulsive self-publicist who revelled in his title of Public
Enemy Number One, was cut down in a hail of bullets in Paris by a special hit squad of
police who were not prosecuted for their extra-judicial wet job. The build-up to this
slaying forms the opening scene to Jean-François Richet's terrific film. For the 42-yearold
Cassel, Mesrine might be the high point of his career.
”Mesrine is lean, flashy & fastmoving”.
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