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Outside the Law (2010)

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 31 Jul 2011 05:26:27
Outside the Law (2010)

Outside the Law (2010)
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Audio: #1 - French DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps; #2 - English DD 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Crime, Drama | Nominated for Oscar | France, Algeria, Belgium, Tunisia, Italy

After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.

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The story that unfolds through Outside the Law is a familiar one. One brother is dedicated to his beliefs and nothing else, another just wants to get ahead, and the other brother is caught in the middle. Messaoud is the most interesting character, because he is the only one who is truly conflicted. He saw fighting in Vietnam and spent time in a prison camp, and he's got the scars to prove it. Abdelkader doesn't have the stomach for killing, so he relies on his bigger brother–literally bigger, Roschdy Zem is huge–to do the dirty work, despite the toll it takes on him. Zem gets one particularly chewy scene where he pours out his heart to his mother. His sacrifice is too much. His son is growing up without his father, and the family man Messaoud hoped to be is drowning in blood.

Outside the Law (2010)

Bouchareb constructs his movie in a rather straightforward manner. He follows the struggle from 1955 to the Algerian independence of 1962, using the brothers' various endeavors to guide him. He jumps over passages of time when it is necessary, and we tend to see more of the planning and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks than the events themselves. Eventually, an Algerian defector in the police force, Colonel Faivre (Bernard Blancan), forms a covert counterterrorism group, the Red Hand, and Outside the Law becomes a little like The Untouchables: the good guys will act like the bad guys in order to take those bad guys down.

Outside the Law (2010)

The period detail in Outside the Law is very good. The men dress like old-school gangsters, and the backrooms and dark alleys where they make their plans are suitably smoky and dank. Despite the politics, this is a lot like watching boys play cops and robbers, with one kid being on top one day, another on top the next. Bouchareb does a good job with it, and he manages to keep the divergent plotlines moving in the right directions so they sync up when it's important, but there is a lingering feeling that we have seen all this stuff before. That would be fine if the movie somehow distinguished itself in another way. The drama of the three brothers is compelling, but predictable. You can likely guess how each of them redeems himself. Outside the Law doesn't even have the out that it's based on a true story; it is just what it is.

Outside the Law (2010)

Still, what it is isn't too bad. If these are clothes we've worn before, we've worn them for a reason. The actors are all very good, and the storytelling is solid. It may not be one of the great films of recent memory, but Outside the Law is a very good one, satisfying in its own way. It's serious minded genre work with a setting that isn't very common, which helps it overcome all the things that are.
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