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Anna (Arly Jover, Blade ) is losing her memory. It started the day she failed to recognize her husband, Laurent (Philippe Bas). "I'm going crazy," she whispers to herself. Then at a dinner party, faces suddenly morph into death masks. Elsewhere in Paris, Captain Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin, Syriana ) is trying to catch a serial killer. The three female victims, all Turkish illegals, were tortured and mutilated. Out of desperation, Nerteaux turns to "Shifty" Schiffer (a blond Jean Reno) for help. A brutal cop with ties to the Turkish underworld, Schiffer is easily persuaded. (Too easily, perhaps.) Meanwhile, Anna begins seeing Dr. Mathilde (Laura Morante, The Son's Room). Despite the freaky Francis Bacon painting in her waiting room, which Anna finds terrifying, Mathilde turns out to be a sympathetic psychiatrist who helps unravel the truth about her condition--her face was altered and her memory erased. At the same time, Schiffer helps Nerteaux to solve his mystery. The link between the two is a right-wing organization called the Grey Wolves, which will lead all of them to Turkey for the explosive climax. Empire of the Wolves exerts the same grim fascination as The Crimson Rivers , a previous Jean-Christophe Grangé adaptation featuring Reno. While it marks a minor entry in the versatile actor's career, the gripping (if over-long) thriller ultimately belongs to Jover, whose Anna is as divided against herself as Anne Parillaud's La Femme Nikita. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com
Synopsis
Chocolate shop worker Anna Heymes, 31, suffers horrifying nightmares and periods of extreme confusion ("memory gaps") so great that she's barely able to recognize her own husband, Laurent. Psychologists are stumped until Anna discovers scars on her scalp and is convinced that her face has been reconstructed but by whom? and for what reason?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This film lets loose a considerable number of red herrings. A Parisian cop's wife is having problems losing her memory, or is she? There are Turkish illegal aliens being killed in Paris; is there a serial killer about? Is Jean Reno playing the bad old ex-cop going to betray his young colleague? Is this a French version of Red Riding?
The answers are not what one would expect; though (without giving away anything) it all struck me as a bit pat at the end. But, while the destination felt a bit odd, the journey was great fun.
The answers are not what one would expect; though (without giving away anything) it all struck me as a bit pat at the end. But, while the destination felt a bit odd, the journey was great fun.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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A woman is seeing a neurologist as she's losing her memory. She doesn't recognise her husband. As she tries to regain her memories she begins to suspect that her husband is someone terrible.
There have been a spate of killings of women across Paris. All of the victims came from Paris's Turkish community. A policeman investigating those murders calls in an ex-cop who has a bad reputation to help.
The film starts off feeling like a psychological thriller but, before long, turns into a typical detective thriller (with a conspiracy theory or two thrown in).
One piece of advice I'd give -- watch the film in French with English subtitles. I know there's an option to hear English dialogue but the dubbing is terrible and a lot of the important subtlities in tone are left out.
There have been a spate of killings of women across Paris. All of the victims came from Paris's Turkish community. A policeman investigating those murders calls in an ex-cop who has a bad reputation to help.
The film starts off feeling like a psychological thriller but, before long, turns into a typical detective thriller (with a conspiracy theory or two thrown in).
One piece of advice I'd give -- watch the film in French with English subtitles. I know there's an option to hear English dialogue but the dubbing is terrible and a lot of the important subtlities in tone are left out.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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If you are interested in a thriller that you cannot predict where its going, just buy this. Play it in French and use the subtitles,get the mood. Jean Reno is always value for money. A cracker!
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Great sound track but ...
I can't comment on the movie because ...
Like many others, I too like Jean Reno but even he couldn't make up for the very poor quality sound track. Read more
Like many others, I too like Jean Reno but even he couldn't make up for the very poor quality sound track. Read more
Published 7 months ago by britvic42
Like being on a Helter-Skelter !
One previous reviewer states to buy this if you want NOT to know where you are going? Well I bought this DVD with the full intention of knowing what was going to be happening all... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Patrick H. Williams
Go French and you will never go back :)
If you have never watched a french film before and can cope with subtitles (that or learn French) then this is an excellent start to a road of discovery. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Simon Hatfield
I cannot believe this film was actually made!
I read the book Empire of the wolves and enjoyed it alot so when I found this movie I thought it would be good and at 4.88 £ a real bargain. Read more
Published on 22 April 2009 by J. Cederlöf
Really enjoyable nonsense
Hollywood style big budget fantasy thriller. If it had been in English, it would have been an enormous hit.
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by C. T. Harnett
After a terrific start its momentum comes to a crawl.
The first 50 minutes are very gripping and promising, you have a lot of suspence and intrigue. A woman feeling she is losing her sanity when she cannot recognise her husband for 8... Read more
Published on 29 May 2007 by Gisli Jokull Gislason
Good but not that Good
Essentially a good film but as with the previous adaptation of a Jean Christophe Grange novel 'The Crimson Rivers' it follows the book faithfully to about halfway and then... Read more
Published on 22 May 2006 by Neil G
Brilliant
I recommend this to all who enjoy fast moving, sci-fi/thriller films, with cleverly interwoven storylines. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2006 by "jjlock"
a long way from leon
The producers of this film are in no doubt,viewers are watching this film for one reason only, it has the enigmatic gallic thesp Jean Reno. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2006 by Mr. David C. Halliday
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