Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Genre: Crime

Worldwide gross$15.0M

Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.

🏆 8 wins & 15 nominations total

Genres

Action, Biography, Crime

Director

Jean-François Richet

Cast

Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu

Released

22 October 2008

Runtime

1h 53m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.5 / 10

Votes

35,788

Metascore

71

Rotten Tomatoes

81%

Box office

$551,697

Budget

$25,000,000

Edition

Base