Film Review – Paris Countdown

“Paris Countdown” offers an interesting twist on the crime film routine.
Instead of younger participants, twentysomethings caught up in a world
of drugs and money, we have two 50-year-old men for this underworld
go-around. They can’t quite outrun their pursuers and have serious
family issues to deal with, complicating what turns out to be an
extremely formulaic endeavor from writer/director Edgar Marie, who makes
his helming debut with this loud, stylish picture. “Paris Countdown”
aims to be a slick piece of action entertainment, but there’s little
imagination beyond the age of the lead characters, and while the feature
is mercifully simplistic, it’s rarely engaging, even as a violent
distraction.
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