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| Empire of the Wolves | 
 enlarge | Director: Chris Nahon
Actors: Jean Reno, Arly Jover, Jocelyn Quivrin, Laura Morante, Philippe Bas
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 28304
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 128
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD12891D
ISBN: 1404912185
UPC: 043396128910
EAN: 9781404912182
ASIN: B000BRBA9M
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: December 26, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: few light scratches does not affect play satisfaction guaranteed international orders ship without jewel case
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Anna (Arly Jover, Blade) is losing her memory. It started the day she failed to recognize her husband, Laurent (Philippe Bas). "I'm going crazy," she whispers to herself. Then at a dinner party, faces suddenly morph into death masks. Elsewhere in Paris, Captain Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin, Syriana) is trying to catch a serial killer. The three female victims, all Turkish illegals, were tortured and mutilated. Out of desperation, Nerteaux turns to "Shifty" Schiffer (a blond Jean Reno) for help. A brutal cop with ties to the Turkish underworld, Schiffer is easily persuaded. (Too easily, perhaps.) Meanwhile, Anna begins seeing Dr. Mathilde (Laura Morante, The Son's Room). Despite the freaky Francis Bacon painting in her waiting room, which Anna finds terrifying, Mathilde turns out to be a sympathetic psychiatrist who helps unravel the truth about her condition--her face was altered and her memory erased. At the same time, Schiffer helps Nerteaux to solve his mystery. The link between the two is a right-wing organization called the Grey Wolves, which will lead all of them to Turkey for the explosive climax. Empire of the Wolves exerts the same grim fascination as The Crimson Rivers, a previous Jean-Christophe Grange adaptation featuring Reno. While it marks a minor entry in the versatile actor's career, the gripping (if over-long) thriller ultimately belongs to Jover, whose Anna is as divided against herself as Anne Parillaud's La Femme Nikita. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Product Description
Called back into action a former police detective investigates a series of grizzly murders in paris & uncovers a deadly plot by right-wing turkish drug smugglers. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/27/2009 Starring: Jean Reno Jocelyn Quivrin Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R
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 Confusing drug, police, french movie, October 27, 2008
that may have been a lot better with out the terrible dubbing. Jean Reno, who I've liked since "The Professional" speaks english, but for some reason his voice was dubbed in English and it was terrible, like a b movie cop voice. The story was a little hard to follow but that english dubbing was awful and distracted from the storyline. This should be re-done the right way.
 Not a film about Alzheimer's disease or about illegal immigrants August 16, 2008
A chic Parisian housewife (Arly Jover) finds her life falling apart when suddenly she can no longer remember the man that she is married to. Meanwhile, a young police officer (Jocelyn Quivrin) is forced to join forces with the ethically challenged Det. Schiffer (Jean Reno) in order to solve the grisly murders of three Turkish immigrants.
Even though I am a huge fan of Jean Reno and of Jean-Christophe Grange's other book-film adaptation, "The Crimson Rivers", I kept finding myself putting off seeing this film because I was under the mistaken belief that this was going to be a film about the plight of illegal immigrants in France - ie a film with a social message (something which I generally try to avoid). My father, on the other hand, who is also a fan of Reno, and who watched this film with me, said that during the first twenty minutes of the movie, he thought that he had accidentally stumbled across a film about a woman with Alzheimer's disease (which is something he would avoid). Boy were we both wrong.
"Empire of the Wolves" is an exciting, and intelligent action film that neatly links two seemingly unrelated stories to produce a combination between a police procedural and a biotech thriller. The ending was a little weak, but the story's twists and turns still managed to keep me interested until then. Because this is adapted from a novel, there are some points throughout the movie where it feels as though details from the book have been either omitted or glossed over, but rather than bothering me, this just made me want to go and read the book.
Be aware that, although Jean Reno is given top billings in this film, he is not actually the main character. His role is big enough to satisfy Reno fans, but would definitely be classed as a supporting. People who like this film should also consider watching "The Crimson Rivers". The stories are very different, but the tone and style of the two films is almost identical.
 Two stars instead of one because the first half was good August 15, 2008
I really enjoyed this film until the second half started to go downhill. A lot of things just did not make sense toward the end. This is the kind of movie that needs to be remade in the U.S. - all they have to do is fix the second half of the film, mostly the last 15 minutes. If you are a big Jean Reno fan, this is for you, but I thought the female lead was dynamite until the plot got loose toward the end.
A few cards short May 10, 2008
The central female character, Anna (Arly Jover), is engaging whilst she struggles to uncover her mysterious origins but the two protagonists striving to solve the same mystery by tracking down the murderers of her predecessors are quite unlikeable. Moreover there never is a plausible connection between all the dead Turkish women and Anna except for their nationality. Its never explained why the Wolves killed them or how their deaths came about.
Far too much of this movie makes little or no sense until the end and then the explanations just leave you cold. Who are the Wolves? Turkish Terrorists? Why are they Terrorists? Oh, no reason, they're just evil. Only evil guys would hide out in the famous Christian catacombs in Turkey - unnoticed by thousands of tourists and locals.
Give this film a miss and pick up Wasabi instead!
 THE TURKISH CANDIDATE October 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Highly original thriller more or less a mirror 'type' image of "Manchurian Candidate" and it packs quite a punch ARLY JOVER is spectacular as the very confused candidate, and it becomes quite an eye opener re. the world of 'intrigue'.
Reno [as usual] never fails to please and is remarkably original in his depiction of the burnt out [?] cop?
Enough said - go along for the ride - this is an original and deserves much more attention than previously received.
[ps. Hollywood - please don't remake - this is classic French 2000 cimnema].
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