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Mesrine: Public Enemy No 1 (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong violence, language and sex
- Run time: 1 hour 54 mins
- Language: French
- Release date: 28th August 2009
- Starring: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu
- Directed by:
- Official Website: screenrush.co.uk/mesrine
- Distributor: Momentum Theatrical
Plot Synopsis
The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and finds an adversary in his chief and most dogged pursuer, Commander Broussard. Broussard soon corners Mesrine who is condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. With fellow inmate Francois Besse (Mathieu Amalric) he stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as Broussard closes in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrin! e to full bloody circle.