Like a fish out of water

Language : French

Year of release : 1999

Run time : 1h23m

Genre : Thriller / Crime

Cast : Monica Bellucci

2 crooks, one with the ideas, and one who likes to k1ll people, are waiting for the men they've been running a con on, to show up. See, they've been sending passionate letters as if from a beautiful sexy woman, to a few men they chose for their mild manners, to help them with their next con.

The con with the ideas decide to pick the man who leaves last.

The last one to go is Gilbert Boisnot, whom the crook with the ideas finds trying to hang himself in the bathroom stall. He tells him he read his letters to the woman, and tells him about his plan, calling it a project.

They want to con a Turkish opera singer who has these two rare fish, by stealing one of his fish when he stays at a hotel by the sea, replacing it with a dead one, and then making him buy his own fish from them, by pretending they, meaning Boisnot, owns it.

 

Boisnot is nervous and doesn't want to do it, especially since the beautiful woman laughs at him when she sees him, and he finds out she didn't write any letters to him, it was her man!

The beautiful woman deals with him pretty fast, as apparently, he doesn't need much convincing, and decides to do it.

The cons want to get one million dollars on the fish they stole from its owner.

The movie was surprisingly good, as it didn't bore me, but it was shot on these ugly brownish colors.

One problem with it was, all the characters are unlikeable, even the lead, who at the beginning was tricked into doing it,but then SPOILER decides to ask for more money, and the Turkish opera singer they want to steal from,with his guards. The woman seems to have her own plans, and she's a real b1tch, especially to the lead who loves her. SPOILER At the end, when they take each other out I didn't feel bad for them, I actually enjoyed it, because they were all mean and unlikeable, planning to cheat and exploit each other.

The actors were good. This might be Monica Bellucci's best role.

You can watch the full movie here,for free :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfmfQgHMog&ab_channel=imineo

Rating : Could have been a contender !