Watch Armed Hands For Free

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

I have never understand the impulse to do cop movie, especially when it's about running after the famous powder. When you count all the lives lost, all the family destroyed, all the investigations and budget allowed for so little result, you are worthy to ponder.Here, you have got a clear illustration of this poor administration : there isn't one single police but a lot of offices, each one in charge of a particular crime and not trusting the other. Thus, versatile criminals are a bit hard to catch. Beyond this, the cops are obsessed by the flagrant arrest : they never want to stop the little fish, they always want to catch the big head. So, they listen, they investigate, they patient and it always ends in a bloody gunfight ! In addition, this movie is a bit a bore as every one is grumpy : no ones is happy, the cop father, the cop daughter, the cop boss, the cop co-worker, the gangsters. This loud drama is increased by the locations : derelict, old, rusty, cloudy, this Paris look like rather a under developed country ! And now, even french productions are infected by the modern plague : i mean the mobile phone because in terms of filmmaking, shooting a conversation is ground zero.At last, if Zem is right, i can't believe Leila as a vindictive daughter and an aspirant cop. Worst, she dresses with rags and we are left wondering about her fate.In conclusion, it's not a stinker but there's little to make happy either !

A French crime thriller by Pierre Jolivet, shown lately on a cable channel showed a lot of promise, so we decided to watch. A Marseille based detective, Lucas Scali, is following the trail of a Serbian gang trafficking arms belonging to NATO, stolen from the conflict in that country. Scali and his team follow the criminals to Paris, where his estranged daughter, Maya, also a police detective has been involved in an investigation with illegal drugs being pushed by the same Serbian criminals.The encounter of father and daughter could not have been less auspicious. Maya, working with a dirty police superior, Julien Bass, has been sharing illicit money and drugs, from the different busts all over Paris. Maya resentment on a father she only saw on rare occasions, comes to work with her own team. Her loyalty to Bass comes into play as she realizes the judgment error in teaming up with a dirty superior as she joins forces with her father's team, something that will make her reflect on aspects of her life breaking the same laws she was asked to uphold.The basic problem with the screenplay lies in the fact that most things remain unexplained as the actions meanders wildly all over the place without logic. Mr. Jolivet wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Simon Michael. The cast is headed by Roschdy Zem, a busy actor in the French screen. He is made up as an older man, in contrast with most of his other roles. Best in the film is Leila Bekhti, who is excellent as the woman playing both sides of the law. Marc Lavoine does justice to Bass, the dirty detective. The supporting players do good following M. Jolivet's direction.

I've seen quite a few good french crime/cop movies and this ain't bad either. But it doesn't achieve what some of the other movies did. The movie tries to stay connected to (almost) too many people for it's own good. In the end it does work out, but sometimes less can be more (efficient).Still good acting, some solid action scenes, make this a nice watch. Don't be too distracted by some odd story choices and you will enjoy this quite a bit. Of course I also hope that you won't confuse/connect this with other movies. Especially in Germany they try to connect movies, that have nothing in common (in this case it's the lead actor) and give the movies names that sound similar. Your expectations would never be met (one way or the other).

Pierre Jolivet is not a crime movie specialist, but not a bad director either. Especially for telling fair psychological stories. He knows how to describe the relations between his characters, their feelings, their emotions. In this film, the plot line details are pretty hard to follow, and have not much importance. The story focuses, emphasize on the relationship between a cop - Rochdy Zem - and his daughter, a cop too. Zem works in a squad fighting war weapons from Serbia, while his daughter is in an anti drug flying unit. The characters are all very convincing, and the Marc Lavoine's one, as a cop not so sympathetic, is rather unusual, interesting. We find here some good action sequences, but unfortunately the feature may deceive some audiences, as far there is no real ending in this film. Yes folks, no ending at all...That's unusual too.But after all, why not? Habits may sometimes be disturbed.