In association with

Empire Of The Wolves [2005]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Jean Reno, Arly Jover, Jocelyn Quivrin
directed by Chris Nahon

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Dubbed
• PAL

Editorial Review:

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Really enjoyable nonsense
  Hollywood style big budget fantasy thriller. If it had been in English, it would have been an enormous hit.

• 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 years and without notice peoples faces around her turn into things from nightmares. At the same time a young police investigator has no clues as young women are being brutally murdered in Paris, women that all belong to illegal Turkish immigrants and seems a dead end case. He must enlist Jean Reno, a discharged policeman with a... more info

• Interesting start, typical ending
  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... more info

• 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 completely changes the plot. Having read the book before seeing the film i was somewhat surprised to see Schiffer and Nurteaux standing at the end of the film as both met their end before the plot even reached Istanbul. Grange was responsible in part for the screenplay but tends to give the film-makers free reign which makes for... more info

Similar Products:

More from Amazon