A body is found tied, naked and with the hands and eyes missing in a crevasse high on a mountain in alpine France and commissioner Pierre Niemans is brought in from Paris to investigate. Meanwhile, local detective Max Kerkerian is working on a case of desecration at the cemetery and a break-in at a primary school that leads him to the 20 year old accidental death of a little girl and a nun who has spent the last 15 years in the dark. As the cases coincide, stories of nepotism, eugenics and murder come to the surface along with a bunch more bodies.
Without giving anything away, the stories' twists and complications, of which there are many, do boarder on the ridicules but the pacing and main performances are good enough to keep the viewer interested and rolling with it. Jean Reno is Niemans and although nobody could ever claim he's a great actor he's a good one that got a couple of great parts and he's good in this. Vincent Cassel plays Kerkerian. It's not anywhere near as good a performance as he gave in La Haine but he's intense, confused or sardonic at all the right times as the gung-ho young detective and to be honest out does Reno in the acting stakes. The very beautiful Nadia Farès is our female lead. It would be hard for me to tell you too much about her part without giving out spoilers, so I won't. As far as her acting goes she's quite good. A little moody in parts but that fits the bill. As far as the production goes, the sets are good and the location is very nice but there's nothing overly special about the rest. Jean-Pierre Cassel, Vincent's father, plays the Dr. He's by far the highest quality in the film but he's so heavily made-up and the part is so small that you don't recognise him.
It suffers from the same thing as all these French thrillers, over writing, but as I said before you easily get over that and it ends up really enjoyable.
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