Go watch these movies. There's tits! And hot bitches! There's shoot outs! He breaks outta prison like half a dozen times! This dude's a bad ass and this and the first one are AWESOME!!!
You think living in a house of crazy people would be fun, but it's actually really depressing.-Bart
Yeah! And he beats his wife! Robs powerful man so he has to escape the country and leave his children behind! Try to rescue his friends from a prison with the most insipid plan ever conceived! ( Park the car, Shoot the guards. Spoiler: Doesn`t work out, everyone is killed. ) Continues on to become a gangster even when he has a stable job!
He lost his job as an architect due to downsizing. Mesrine has become a postwar icon in France comparable to Che in South America. He must have done something different than the average criminal to get to this iconic point.
Yeah he was great at self promotion and portraying himself as a revolutionary when in fact he was a self interested gangster and thug. But he had a ton of charisma and died in service to his "cause" so he's of course romanticized. This film did a good job of exposing his warts and all brutality and misogyny though. The scene where he brutalizes his wife is just off the hook.