If the producers of this film have added more action scenes, I would have the feeling to watch a movie made by Cedric Gimenez, the director of BAC NORD, NOVEMBRE or LA FRENCH; thrillers related to actual events, sensible matters, media oriented "hot" topics. Here it is not question of terrorism, nor rogue, borderline cops, but the involvement of the French government with Spanish authorities and their criminal spooks to get rid of Basque independance fighter, some kind of terrorists but only in Spain or south West of France; nothing to do with ISIS..And especially a story about the way that French police uses illegal ways to get rid of drug traffic. Useless to say that this movie is not a crime film for me, but a kind of documentary, false documentary, well explained, factual, told in a journalistic way. The director Thierry De Peretti is a Corsican film maker who seems to make the same kind of cinema as Cedric Gimenez, and it is not surprising that one of his previous films was a feature speaking of Corsican separatists and their bloody relations with the underworld and their violent problems with also the French authorities: UNE VIE VIOLENTE. Cedric Gimenez without testosterone. A good movie, interesting to watch, but only if you are interested in this topic, if not forget it. Vincent Lindon is as excellent in this film as he is in Stéphane Brizé's social movies: LA LOI DU MARCHE, EN GUERRE, UN AUTRE MONDE. Anyway Vincent Lindon is excellent EVERYWHERE.
Review of Undercover
