The Outsider aka Le Marginal [Blu-ray]

This is one of the best euro crime films i have ever seen. Great story, Great action. Belmondo was a really cool dude.

excellent

excellent dvd with English dubbing

Whilst not up to the standards of Jean-Paul Belmondo's sixties and seventies output, Le Marginal does boast a charismatic performance from Belmondo, playing a cop bent on taking down mob leader, Henry Silva. As one would expect of a film made in the 80's, the proceedings, at times, are somewhat cruder and explicit, but Belmondo rises above it all with aplomb. The Netherlands release of this DVD, which I'm reviewing, has an English language option.

magic film

a good Jean- paul- Belmondo

It probably takes a film as dull as Belmondo and Jacques Deray's subsequent Le Solitaire to make you really appreciate their much more successful Le Marginal pairing (the third highest grossing film in France in 1983). It's junk and derivative junk at that, but at least it keeps moving and delivers what it promises, while Belmondo is still in good enough shape to do his own stunts - be it climbing into a helicopter from a speeding boat or showing off his driving skills in a car chase (and Remy Julienne's second unit work makes sure you can see that it really is Belmondo doing the driving). If Peur Sur la Ville was inspired by the poster for Bullitt, this is Belmondo's take on Sharky's Machine (albeit without any of that romantic stuff): it's not enough that his cop is busted to the basement no-hopers for getting too close to Mr Big, but the film even goes to the extent of hiring Sharky's nemesis Henry Silva (dubbed in the English version) to play the villain. Silva doesn't really have much to do in the film, but then it's really all Belmondo's show. This is Belmondo at his most populist, kicking ass, taking names and looking cool - well, this being the 80s he's got that ex-professional middleweight boxer look to him (as one hood puts it, "You're not a police officer. You're the best gorilla I know."), but it must work because even hookers fancy him. At times it threatens to become as much an ego trip as a star vehicle, but there's enough action to keep it moving, it has a good sense of the underbelly of the city, from its squats to its gay bars, frequent co-star Pierre Vernier is quietly reliable as Belmondo's sidekick and there's a decent Ennio Morricone score thrown in for good measure. Utterly disposable, but as a brain-off Saturday night movie it passes muster effectively enough. Although the French-language version on StudioCanal's French PAL DVD is not subtitled, there is a dubbed English-language version available, though the extras - trailers and audio commentary from the director - are French only.

Belmondo is a tough cop. He goes after a big-time drug dealer (played by Henry Silva, normally a great villain - see "Sharky's Machine"; but here he is clearly dubbed, and because of that he lacks his usual charisma). He goes to the scuzziest places of Paris and Marseilles, asks for some names, beats up some people, gets the names, goes to more scuzzy places, asks for more names, beats up more people, etc. The whole movie is punch after punch after punch. It seems that the people who made it had no other ambition than to create the French equivalent of "Dirty Harry". Belmondo, who was 50 here, does perform some good stunts at the beginning; apart from those, "Le Marginal" is a violent, episodic, trite, shallow and forgettable cop movie.

du bebel pur jus.à recommander.

todo perfecto,en el tiempo estipulado,muy contento con la compra, como siempre un grande amazon

Ottimo DVD del film "Le Marginal" (1983) diretto magistralmente da Jaques Deray, veterano del polar (poliziesco e noir francese) ed interpretato dall'inarrivabile Jean- Paul Belmondo che, come di consueto, oltre a regalarci un'ennesima prestazione maiuscola, esegue meravigliosamente in prima persona tutti i suoi stunt, senza mai avvalersi di una controfigura. In italiano il film fu intitolato "Professione: Poliziotto" ma questo DVD mantiene il titolo originale, con cui il film è noto in tutto il mondo. Opera vivamente consigliata. Rapporto qualità prezzo più che buono. Amazon impeccabile come di consueto.

Super Film für Belmondo Fans ein muss, und diese import Fassung hat deutschen Ton mit drauf

Excellent film de Belmondo au top de sa forme dans ce film