In the global film industry, the subgenre of gangster-police action is one of the most popular and sought after. Many directors create in this style, making a win-win bet on the image of actors invited to the main roles.
2003 police action movie with V. Diesel
The film directed by F. Gary Gray “Loner” (front-end actors: V. Diesel, L. Tate, T. Olyphant) was not successful in the American box office. The reviews of film critics and a number of inhabitants were also rather mixed. According to IMDb, the action movie about a revenge for the death of his beloved cop has a rating of 6.10. According to the reviewers, the actors involved in the production of the film failed to get the film “The Loner” out of the “swamp of stamps”. Almost every episode of the tape is familiar to the viewer through an infinite number of such opuses. Sometimes you even want to sympathize with the textured and colorful starring actor Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Black Hole, The Chronicles of Riddick, Three X). Although, as a result, the actor achieves the almost impossible, prompting the audience to imbue with sincere sympathy for his character, who seeks to prove his own innocence in any way. In the performing interpretation of Vin Diesel, the main character, Sean Vetter, turns out to be an unusual person.
Russian crime thriller of 2010
Director Sergei Shcherbin in 2010, commissioned by NTV, shoots the genre film "The Loner" (leading actors: D. Kozlovsky, Y. Tsapnik, A. Kuznetsov) , which despite its low budget, the usual serial visualization and a sad soundtrack from Yuri Shevchuk receives a significant rating - IMDb: 7.50. The main trump card of the project, according to domestic film critics, is the storyline and the actor who played the main role. Danila Kozlovsky is one of the leading contemporary performers, he regularly starred in national cinema. Two years ago, the actor made his debut in the Hollywood project of M. Waters fantasy action movie with horror elements "Academy of Vampires." The most significant works of Kozlovsky are considered roles in the films "Hardcore", "We are from the future", "Legend No. 17" and "Loner". Actors-colleagues of the performer prophesy him a brilliant career in the global and domestic film industry.
French crime thriller with Jean-Paul Belmondo
Oddly enough, the directorial work of Jacques Deret, the action movie "Loner" (actors: J.-P. Belmondo, J.-P. Malo, M. Bon) has a very low IMDb rating: 5.70. According to film critics, the film has an extremely simple, typically secondary plot scheme. The action takes place extremely sluggishly, not compensated by the obligatory genre components - shooting, chases and fights, they take up too little space in the timing of the tape. There can be no talk of an outstanding directorial arrangement of a secondary plot. It seems that the director decided, in the order of a creative experiment, to build an action film on the dialogs of the main characters, hoping that commercial success will be ensured by the presence of the irresistible Jean-Paul Belmondo (Professional, Monster, Magnificent). And Jacques Deret did not lose: for the joy of a new meeting with the famous actor, the audience forgave the director all negligence. Action "Loner": actors and roles, plot twists and turns, intrigue and climax are familiar and loved by fans of this genre.