Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct follows Jacques Mesrine, a French soldier returning from the Algerian War to ordinary life with his parents. He turns away from the respectable path his father offers, drawn instead into the criminal world of 1960s Paris under the wing of a local underworld boss named Guido. What begins with small illegal jobs grows into armed robbery, violence and repeated prison terms, as Mesrine builds a reputation as a daring, shape-shifting criminal while his marriage to a Spanish woman, with whom he has three children, falls apart. He later takes up with Jeanne Schneider, and the pair eventually flee to Canada, where their activities bring them into conflict with the authorities.

The film is directed by Jean-François Richet, whose earlier Assault on Precinct 13 came in 2005 and who made this alongside its companion piece, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, the same year. Abdel Raouf Dafri wrote the screenplay. Vincent Cassel plays Mesrine, with Cécile de France as Jeanne, Gérard Depardieu as Guido, Gilles Lellouche as Paul, Roy Dupuis as Jean-Paul Mercier and Florence Thomassin as Sarah, among a credited cast of 46.

It is a French, Italian and Canadian production with a budget of about 25 million USD and a worldwide gross of roughly 15 million USD. On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7.3 from 72 reviews, and on TMDB it also scores 7.3, from 1,023 votes.