This move involves a lot of planning that also involves bribing Antoine’s informant who asks for a stash of 5kg weed. Luckily, Yass’ friend and their superior officer offers them an opportunity to take down a big drug network. This is really pissing them off and while they are no messiahs-in-plain-sight (they often do illegal activities on their own), they are on the lookout for something big to come their way. Yass and his colleagues can do nothing to hold them accountable and have to simply back-off like sissies. These people are freely running their agendas and drug business within these colonies. The three of them are tired of their daily hustle where they either have to bring in local traffickers who sell cigarettes or turtles illegally, or they have to face men with loaded guns. Not much is said about Yass but I have to confess that his screen presence is spectacular. Greg (Gilles Lellouche) is the hothead in the group and is about to be a father with his wife Nora (Adèle Exarchopoulos) who also happens to be in the police. His loneliness is hinted at, whenever he meets Amel or when he ends up back home with his dog and a blunt. François Civil plays Antoine, the good-looking dude from the squad who is in close connection with an informant Amel (Kenza Fortas). But as soon as the sequence ends, Jimenez uses an American rap track to close-cut the sequence with the fragility of these three cops. Opening up with a sequence like that where Jimenez uses his frantic camera work to put the audience in the driving seat, should reap immersive results. The middle-aged man is now a part of a team of three police officers who are in pursuit of a Candyman (a local drug peddler). The film opens with Yass (Karim Leklou) who is released from prison, before shifting 8-months forward. These suburbs were distributed into colony-like fractions that once held the highest crime rate in all of France. It’s another story that they don’t really work in their entirety.Īnyhow, coming to the film itself, The Stronghold is based on true events that took place in the north suburbs of Marseille. And for good measures, there is the dramatic arc that puts these characters in a life-altering situation. There’s also the buddy cop element that shows the three central characters in a testosterone-filled chest-thump.
It has intense action that balances its crime-based story in a back and forth between the police and the thugs. It very well ticks most of the boxes that work with the Netflix audience.
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