Die Axt (2005)
29KDie Axt: Directed by Costa-Gavras. With José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Couturiau, Christa Théret. A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
“I completely disagree with the reviewer who called this au0026#39;TV movieu0026#39;. itu0026#39;s anything but… (did he see it on a TV screen?). Itu0026#39;s a thriller that actually deserves to be called by that over-used adjective u0026#39;Hitchcockianu0026#39; as we gradually identify more and more what the lead character who starts off as what, a hit-man, a serial-killer? As we get into his motives and hit and miss way of carrying them out together with unrelated encounters with the cops we are willing, despite ourselves, that he will succeed. Why does this not have a US distributor yet? I saw it with an appreciative crowd in Paris earlier this year. Jose Garcia who I last saw overdoing it in a so-so comedy called APRES VOUS is very good as the ordinary guy pushed to the limit and Karen Viard also always watchable as his blandly oblivious wife, who also becomes involved via a different set of crimes involving their family.”
