It's all rather conventional, drawing on the blockbuster big bangs and special effects he must have picked up in Hollywood making the Bruce Willis thriller Hostage.
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10/18/08
Intimate Enemies (2009)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:7
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.5/10
Theatrical Release:25-01-2008
Synopsis: Young lieutenant Terrien (Benoît Magimel, Best Actor Cannes 2001 for The Piano Teacher) takes command of an outpost in Algeria, a country fighting for its independence from France. He befriends a... [More]
Starring: Benoit Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurelien Recoing, Marc Barbe
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Reviews for Intimate Enemies
1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticA harrowing but formulaic insight into the realities experiened by French conscripts during the Algerian War.
02/01/08
Top CriticTerrien's journey is more conventional, but still powerful and well acted.
01/29/08
Top CriticDirector Florent Emilio Siri (‘The Nest’, ‘Hostage’) shows ability in action sequences and group dynamics but his film never develops sufficiently to raise it much above the conventional.
01/24/08
Top Critica no-holds-barred history with alarming lessons for the current 'War on Terror'.
01/17/08
Top CriticPulls no punches in its depiction of the gruesome nature of guerilla warfare and the ensuing decay of morality.
10/06/07
A movie you’ve seen before, when it was set on the Apache reservation or in the Vietnamese jungle.
10/02/09
Top CriticAlong the way, Siri exposes French hypocrisy -- showing that the Algerian rebels were only doing what the French Resistance did in battling the Nazis who ruled their country in WorldWar II.
10/02/09
With its sententious air of historical reckoning, Enemies is an impressive monument, but not a moving one.
09/29/09
Says so much that's familiar if not downright clichéd, it winds up saying nothing at all.
09/28/09
Truly unforgettable and revelatory, L'Ennemi intime presents a rare glimpse into the realities of war in all its gory detail, tempered with a heartbreaking insight into our inescapably frail human consciousness.
09/22/07
Rotman's reliance on speechifying to get his points across essentially drains anything even resembling authenticity from the film...
09/16/07
Visceral and engrossing.
09/12/07
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