Considering its high-powered leading trio of actors - Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve - this French thriller is a trifle disappointing. Director Alain Corneau too often lets sentiment get the upper hand in his treatment of a story about a retired ex-crook who finds his peace and quiet shattered by the arrival at his ranch of two escaped convicts - an old confederate and his younger partner, an explosively homicidal tough, very well played by Depardieu. Despite some good moments and a violent action climax, it all goes on far too long.


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