Alain Delon wasn't nearly as cool as he might have seemed in 1980.
Delon plays a rich French guy comes across a one-car accident on a country road at night and takes a seriously injured man to the hospital. Turns out he had been shot. Now Delon has hitmen after him.
In Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Warren Oates mentions early on that he used to shoot guns a lot. That brief comment is all that prepares us for what he does the rest of the movie. In this, you wait to hear about something in Delon's character's background, but there's nothing. There are car chases, gun fights, murders.
Kind of a crappy Three Days of the Condor.
Considering that people in high places are sending hit men out to commit murders and then more hit men to kill all the witnesses, the movie make France seem like less of a hellhole than other French movies. There wasn't any police torture, for example.
I'll give away the ending here. Delon walks in unarmed and helpless to talk to the wealthy military contractor who's been trying to have him murdered, as if he would have the slightest idea what to say to him. Then the guy gets so mad at Delon that he abruptly dies of natural causes.
I watched it on Amazon where it's on the Cohen Media Channel.
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