The scout bike and the gun squad in the back of the blue truck who actually killed the guy.
Are they police?
If they were police indeed, i totally don't get it!!!
If not, who are they?
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
They were police.
He escaped prison multiple times and was dangerous, they probably figured he would be better dead.
__________
We're all running strong & charging up the hills of life again.
were they different branch of police or something?
cos the film never suggested they were with the police.
they were not communicating or cooperating with the police the film actually follow.
they just left scene.
they just opened fire without any provocations.
if they were police indeed, I think that's BS.
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
They were in communication. The driver of the truck was.
Also: Look up Jacques Mesrine's death online and it'll tell you it was police. His death was considered police execution.
__________
We're all running strong & charging up the hills of life again.
yeah, I'm not disputing the history.
it's just how they showed in the film.
police was barely maintaining their track on the guy(they were scrambling toward the guy) but suddenly BAM!
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
it's just how they showed in the film.
[deleted]
Mesrine was killed by french police officers. The french interior minister ordered the assasination, because Mesrine got too much publicity and was making the french police look incompetent.
In the real world it wasn`t Mesrines daughter, who sat next to him, it was his girlfrien, and the police commisioner Broussard wasn`t trying to cover Mesrines face, Broussard was laughing out loud when they killed him.
In the film it was his girlfriend too. Or did you watch the Klingon version? In real life she was badly injured in the execution.
shareYeah i was pretty confused as well, they could have made it clearer. They made it seem like the police but then the police who arrived at the scene seemed to implie it wasn't them who did it.
shareI don't think it was confusing, frankly. He was killed by a police hit team which was completely off the books so the regular cops had no idea of the story behind his assassination.
shareI thought it might be French Special Services or something along the lines of our FBI. I would like to see a book for sale on his life, be interesting.
shareWhat made the ending confusing for me was the way it was edited. You see the flic (cop) hiding inside the van, who is so nervous he's about to come unglued. What are they planning? It's not clear.
Then you see Broussard, apparently in communication with the guy in the van. OK, so far so good.
Then the guys pile out of the van, and they just don't seem like cops. However, if they were cops, that would explain why Broussard jumps out of his car and starts running towards Mesrine's car. He probably heard something on the radio that tipped him off and wanted to prevent the execution. Why would Broussard want to do that? Perhaps because he was a law-abiding cop? Perhaps he wanted the credit of bringing Mesrine in?
So, apparently the police decided to break the law and kill Mesrine, thinking that he would just escape or cause more embarrassment for them if they put him in jail again.
It does seem there might have been easier ways to just shoot the guy, rather than publicly, but perhaps that was part of the plan --- to show that he was toast, in front of a large audience.
We report, you decide; but we decide what to report.
Yes I agree with you...all good points. I love this actor and these two movies he made as Mesrine.
shareIt does seem there might have been easier ways to just shoot the guy, rather than publicly, but perhaps that was part of the plan --- to show that he was toast, in front of a large audience.
Yeah it was shocking to me that swat team of cops would so flagrantly conduct a public execution like that by surprise firing squad. It just seemed like excessive overkill and a possible risk to innocent civilian lives. I guess it's something that we would never see a Hollywood movie portraying US cops doing in the states unless they had gone rogue. I'm very aware that could very well just be a Hollywood inspired myth though. Since the French squad got their orders from SecDef/Interior Minister I know this was an accurate portrayal, but still it seemed quite brazen. Plus I don't know why they made the point to so callously disregard the life of his gf too in the broad-daylight-firing-squad execution. She didn't seem to be the lethal one even though she was a loyal accomplice in other respects.
You'd think it'd be way easier and safer to just have some snipers positioned at strategic locations that would take him out when he left the building. Far safer and more discreet. Journalists could go to the funeral if they wanted to verify he was dead.
I didnt like how they altered the truth. Making his girlfriend seem like a shallow bitch, when in reality they shot here over and over again, she was barely alive.
She was hospitalized for 6 months, and the cops nearly killed her again by dragging her out of the hospital when the doctors said it could kill her.
If you google her name then you will find some horrible pictures of her.
[deleted]
yup they are cops! because it was ordered shoot to kill!
shareIn the first biopic on the life of Mesrine (made in the mid-80's also in France) the cops who shoot him from the back of the truck are all in uniform (like a US Swat team).
In this recent version with Cassel they are all in a civilian plainclothes outfit. What is the historically correct one ?
In this recent version with Cassel they are all in a civilian plainclothes outfit. What is the historically correct one ?
Thanks for this!
But I think the team that makes the kill were all from professional police sniper squads so they likely must have been in uniform, as all those French CRS and special police forces you now see almost daily on the news.
Yeah it was sort of confusing how the police team boss ran on the streets like as if the mission had failed or something.
Turns out they (police) were successful and killed Mesrine.
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down and a Wagging Finger of Shame