Damn, this is one long movie! 155 minutes of a French gangster flick mostly set in a prison where an Arab inmate is drawn into doing jobs for a criminal group and then has some plans of his own to take over and gain as much control and power as he can. It's a big story though with a lot of characters and told in a few languages so it takes some attention-filled viewing to appreciate. There's some brutal violence(a razor-blade neck slicing scene with arterial blood-spray particularly stands out) which is what you would expect also racism and sex and enough of an interesting plot to keep you tuned in even at it's large running time. The acting is all really amazingly realistic so it's too bad that there will probably be a dumbed-down Hollywood version of this with some terrible American actors.
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