Mesrine: Killer Instinct is part 1 of a two-part 2008 French-Canadian Mesrine film series directed by Jean-Franois Richet and starring Vincent Cassel as the French criminal Jacques Mesrine. Based on Mesrine's autobiographical book "L'instinct de mort", Killer Instinct details Mesrine's rise in the Paris criminal underworld after serving in the army in Algeria, as well as his early exploits in Paris, and later in Quebec, Canada. Part 2 is known as Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1.
Members of the Arizona Highway Patrol as wield the Smith & Wesson Model 28 during a high speed chase with Mesrine and his girlfriend in 1969 (when he is caught and returned to Quebec). The real life Mesrine was caught in Arkansas, not Arizona.
During the high speed chase in Arizona in 1969, Jeanne Schneider (Ccile De France) attempts to use a Smith & Wesson Model 60 when they hit the police roadblock, but Jacques Mesrine tells her to stop and throws the gun to the floor of the car.
Mesrine and his accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier (Roy Dupuis) are armed with anachronistic post-ban AR-15A2 HBAR rifles (most likely a Bushmaster XM15E2) when they attack the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul prison. Their rifles have multiple magazines taped together. These rifles are "post-ban" AR-15 rifles (which was a cosmetic change forced on the gun industry in 1994 by the Clinton Administration, and expired in 2004). The heavy barreled rifles have no flash hiders, muzzle threads or bayonet lugs. Even if they would standing in for period-correct AR-15 rifles, the use of these rifles is doubly anachronistic since the sequence takes place in the early 1970s and their design is based on the M16A2 introduced in the mid-1980s.During the real assault, they carried M1 Carbines.
Paul (Gilles Lellouche) steals a 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun from an apartment that he and Mesrine rob in Paris. Mesrine's partner in Quebec, Jean-Paul Mercier (Roy Dupuis), also carries a double barreled shotgun when he is confronted by two park rangers in the forest.
The independent crime drama La Soga has the rare distinction of being shot in the Dominican Republic -- a country without a film industry, and without the amenities (reliable electricity, for starters) of a typical production.
It isn't set in some coastal resort town, either, but in and around the interior cities of Santiago and Baitoa, in neighborhoods not found in any tourist guide. And hearteningly, the opening-credits sequence promises that this will be a film about the real Dominican Republic, with glimpses of vibrant local color -- street festivals, musicians, children at play -- clashing against images of destitution and bloodshed, cockfighting rings and police oppression.
When the credits end, however, a much more familiar story of revenge and redemption starts to emerge, and the country fades into a disappointingly generic backdrop. Director Josh Crook, a non-Spanish speaker from Brooklyn, shoots the film in a glossy Hollywood style that has the effect of aestheticizing poverty when he means to evoke it. Despite the novel setting, La Soga has the arm's-length distance of an outsider's travelogue, and the cliche-packed melodrama of the story does little to bring the audience any closer.
Writer-star Manny Perez, who was born in the small Dominican town of Baitoa, does his best to incorporate some of the specific criminal ills that affect his homeland -- including the problems caused by violent deportees from the United States. Donning sunglasses and a permanent five 'o clock shadow, Perez stars as Luisito, a chief enforcer for General Colon (Juan Fernandez), the head of the secret police. Luisito's grisly job is to round up drug dealers and other crooks, assassinate them out in the open and parade their bodies around as a message to the public at large.
Turns out Luisito has a story, which La Soga's frequent flashbacks clarify more than necessary: As a sensitive 10-year-old, Luisito watched his father, a humble butcher, get murdered by a gangster named Rafa (Paul Calderon) in a fit of pique. Though Rafa made his escape to New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, Luisito waits patiently for the day his father's killer is deported back to Santiago so he can have his revenge. Meanwhile, his childhood crush has returned -- in the luscious form of Denise Quinones, Miss Universe 2001 -- and he's showing signs of going soft.
There are few surprises in where La Soga is headed; it won't come as a shock to learn, for example, that the leader of a secret assassination program might not be such an honorable fellow. At the same time, Crook and Perez sketch Luisito with too heavy a hand, illustrating the contradictions in his character by making him a vegetarian, capable of brutality and mercy. In any given flashback, how he treats a pig -- dad's a butcher, remember? -- is usually a good barometer of his present-day mental state.
La Soga isn't without redeeming qualities: Superfluous flashbacks aside, Crook keeps the action moving at a fast clip, cutting fluidly from the streets of Santiago to its criminal pipeline in Washington Heights, and he gets a sinister turn from Calderon, a veteran character actor who plays Rafa with a soulful swagger. But in a film where the Dominican Republic is supposed to be the star, the worst thing that could be said about La Soga is that the location doesn't make a difference.
What does the ending scene in the movie Basic Instinct actually mean?
After the killer has been caught by the police, we see in the last scene a very suspenseful, cliffhanger sex scene. Can somebody explain the ending of that to me? Does it mean the real killer is not caught after all?
In the end Catherine Tramell tries to pick up the ice pick in the sex scene which is her murder tool from the first kill, which signifies that she was the killer from the start. The killer was never caught, but after the death of Beth and the evidence found at her house, it turned out that she is the killer. But she was all innocent, and it's been all Catherine's revenge plan because Beth was her lesbian partner and left her.
The answer is much more complex. There are two fully developed storylines throughout the whole film. In one storyline, Catherine is the killer. In the second storyline, Beth is the killer. If you look back at the story very carefully both in the movie and the screenplay each is presented. The ending concludes both storylines. The Beth as killer concludes with the first fadeout. The second fadeout is actually an alternate ending. The ending in which Catherine is the killer. It's kind of a choose your own adventure. That's why you find almost as many people viewing Catherine as innocent, (maybe that could hardly be the word) but at least not the killer, as those who believe her to be the killer. Each viewer has made this decision as to which storyline to go with, to believe, based on their own personal predilections. Look at it again. All the clues are there for BOTH story lines. Can you see them? Or do your personal prejudices get in the way?
I think, there is not just one killer. Dr. Garner, Catherine, Hazel Dobkins, Roxy- All have murdered. The thing is Beth, Dobkins and Roxy are highly obsessed with Catherine. She makes them murder all the people except in the first scene (where she herself murders Johnny Boz). She is a brilliant psychologist who reads the characters really well. She knew that she could make em do anything she wants.
Well, Catherine is a writer and a psychologist, it makes sense for her to write a thriller? Not exactly, the book is the live proof that she wants the police to think that the book is an alibi (that's why she talks about it being an alibi in the interrogation scene-You know, shape their thought to course a direction she wants. She knows how human mind works really well), and she also puts up an open kinda challenge that, she will make all the murders happen and describe them in the book but no one can prove that(or make em wanting not to prove, or ignore it, after manipulating their state of mind).
Again nicely played by Catherine. Beth didn't kill Gus, it was Dobkins, who killed Gus with such cruelty. Beth didn't have anything against Gus. Beth just happened to be there coincidentally. The evidence, was planted- Remember when Beth tells Nick to take the cigarettes from the top Drawer- the books were found later in the top drawer- if Beth was the ultimate verdict, why would she risk herself?
She would have, but at each point Nick turns out to be the unexpected character when she thinks she has captured the character of Nick, she finds his new side. She just can't kill him until she finds everything about him- like "the F**k of the century", his challenging character who is not scared of her and wants to the play the "game" even if it means his own death, his above average intelligence and extraordinary observation power etc. So she tests Nick's level from the beginning and the night she tells him that the book is finished and the Detective dies, she killed the detective character in the book because she found out that Nick believes that Beth was the mastermind and so he couldn't find the actual killer, now the actual killer is going to kill him- which is herself.
She then says good bye to Nick and she cries (for real) because she knew she was going to have sex with him one last time and then have to kill him. Nick on the other hand completely believed her innocence and actually "fell for the wrong woman" but guess what- at last she also fell for him (this is what she never anticipated actually- thought she could be a master of all the puppets). Anyway, the last time she picks up the ice pick to kill Nick, she just couldn't as she was already in love with him. She decided to spare him and, fu*k like minks forever.
When Nick visits Catherine Tremell he reads a page as it's being printed from her book. It describes his partner's death (Gus) while he (Nick) is running up the stairs to save him. This was written before Gus dies hence Catherine is the killer. Nick realises this while waiting in his car and hence the dash to room 405. No reason then for him to kill Beth.
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