just watch it!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This neo-noir crime film reeks of atmosphere. Directed by the legendary Frenchman Jean Pierre Melville and starring the French heartthrob Alain Delon as the main character Le Samourai is a great classic of world cinema. Delon is an contractual assassin and his latest hit gets him in some soup. The style is minimalist and the cinematography is bleak on purpose. Though there are some plot holes which can be found if studied deeply I feel that the film is meant to be a stylish take on a philosophy and in that capacity it works perfectly. If you wish to get into French films than this is a straightforward flick full of fedora wearing assassins and nightclub singers that can be helpful.

This neo-noir crime film reeks of atmosphere. Directed by the legendary Frenchman Jean Pierre Melville and starring the French heartthrob Alain Delon as the main character Le Samourai is a great classic of world cinema. Delon is an contractual assassin and his latest hit gets him in some soup. The style is minimalist and the cinematography is bleak on purpose. Though there are some plot holes which can be found if studied deeply I feel that the film is meant to be a stylish take on a philosophy and in that capacity it works perfectly. If you wish to get into French films than this is a straightforward flick full of fedora wearing assassins and nightclub singers that can be helpful.

Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" is a movie that not only ranks with "The Godfather" (1972), or "Goodfellas" (1990) as one of the best gangster movies ever made, it is also the best movie about a hit-man that I have seen since "Collateral" (2004). The movie stars Alain Delon as a hit-man named Jef Costello in a performance that reminded me so much of Tom Cruise's Vincent in "Collateral" because both characters in the two different films. Costello is also a contract killer like Vincent who is one of the suspects in the murder of a guy who works for a nightclub (of which he was paid to do), then the movie entangles itself into a whodunit type of movie with the investigation scenes. His girlfriend named Jane Lagrange (Nathalie Delon, who was Alain Delon's wife during the making of this movie) who is threatened of being charged of the same crime as being an accessory to murder. During the investigation scenes Melville makes us question what really happened even though we saw what happened before our very eyes. After Costello is let loose of the investigation he meets one of the men who paid him to commit the crime and Costello is almost killed during the encounter, and then gets spied on for the rest of the movie and seeks revenge. The only witness to the murder was a black woman who also happens to be a pianist at the same nightclub named Valerie (Cathy Rosier) who then gets questioned about who committed the murder by Le commissaire (Francois Perier). All i'm going to say about the ending of this movie is that it has a very eerily similar ending to that of "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)and I won't spoil it. With a movie like this Melville has proved himself to me to be one of the great European filmmakers like Francois Truffaut, Michael Haneke, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. Also when it comes to the screenplay for this movie co- written by Melville and Georges Pellegrin has practically no dialogue at all like there wasn't that much in Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) even though those are two very different films. This movie should have gotten several Oscar nominations, and practically everything about this movie makes it a flawless masterpiece. This is one of 1967's best films.

It's often difficult to enjoy a movie where its thin plot works to its advantage. Le samouraï is a simple film that becomes more riveting with every passing minute.Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a hit-man who is ordered to execute a night club owner in his own night club. The problem is that he has to do it in the midst of possible witnesses on this busy night. He succeeds with the killing but when the body of the owner is found, the authorities are contacted where whey begin to whittle down possible suspects. Will the police suspect Jef, or is he in the clear?With little to no music, Jean-Pierre Melville's masterful direction is what keeps you enthralled throughout. It doesn't rely on music to make you feel a sense of suspense but instead is confident in it actors to make you feel that something could go wrong any minute.Set in the beautiful backdrop of France, it's use of watered-down blue and white colours add to the feeling of desolation.Le samouraï is an easy watch that made me watch it for a second time shortly after my first experience. Highly recommended.