Largo Winch (2008)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Jérôme Salle

Writers:

Philippe Francq (graphic novel)
Julien Rappeneau (writer)

Release Date:

17 December 2008 (Belgium)

Genre:

Adventure | Thriller

Plot:

After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Comic | Based On Graphic Novel | Based On Comic Book | Hong Kong | Based On Novel

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Tomer Sisley	...	Largo Winch
Kristin Scott Thomas	...	Ann Ferguson
Miki Manojlovic	...	Nerio Winch
Mélanie Thierry	...	Léa / Naomi
Gilbert Melki	...	Freddy
Karel Roden	...	Mikhail Korsky
Steven Waddington	...	Stephan Marcus
Anne Consigny	...	Hannah
Radivoje Bukvic	...	Goran
Nicolas Vaude	...	Gauthier - the butler
Benedict Wong	...	Wiliam Kwan
Gérard Watkins	...	Cattaneo
Wolfgang Pissors	...	Attinger
Theodore Thomas	...	Greenfield (as Ted Thomas)
David Gasman	...	Alexander Meyer

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English | Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Dolby SR | DTS

Certification:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Company:

Pan Européenne Production

Trivia:

The Hong Kong action scenes were shot without official authorization, with a small crew looking out for the police.

Goofs:

Plot holes: To own a Liechtensteinian anstalt (company) like the one owning the W group in the comic book and the movie, one just has to put his name on the shares. So when Largo lost the shares during the pursuit in the movie, he should have lost the group without any possibility of getting it back. (This detail is clearly specified in the comic book.)

Movie Connections:

Version of "Largo Winch: Legacy (#1.1)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Milo moje

A total non-plot Watch and Feel Good Superhero flick

Couldn't meet my expectations Largo Winch, a European comic book superhero had caught my attention through its release notes on the movie magazines and its online teasers. I haven't made any research before watching it to keep my curiosity, but when I watched it there was this big slice of the cake was missing: No plot.

The whole movie leans its back against action scenes which are very well worth seeing, at some moments breathtaking and visually drastic. Whereas, there are issues at the technical aspects where cinematography and camera movements lack of quality and proper arraignment. Over the first half of the movie, at the fight scenes and fast paced sequences the camera work was so embarrassing and bothered me a lot. It should have been set up at a better angle. At some of those scenes where the camera movements, location and the angle views are very disturbing that obviously the screen view was like up and down and shaking second by second.

There is one incident happening at the start, that the industry tycoon a Hong-Kong celebrity Mr.Winch was getting killed right at the opening; even while the credits are still showing up. And then there is none... There is one: The son of this industry tycoon who lives separately from his father. Named Largo, never uses his last name in his social occasions, comes to the spot. His action scenes are as rich as a James Bond sequel, the rest is a little Batman-like drama. Whatever means Bruce Wayne for Gotham City is equal in Largo Winch for Hong-Kong. After he takes his deceased father's legacy under his name, he doesn't admit anyone working for him. He takes advises and keeps 8 different financial advisers(one of them are Kristin Scott Thomas) around a round table at his office in a skyscraper, where he goes to his meetings via his personal helicopter and pilot.

Despite all those bubble and guise, money can't buy his freedom; he doesn't admit his fame either. Always knowing what he wants, always taking his own course; he always wins his battles at last. Typically obeying and following all certain rules and clichés of superheros "Largo Winch" never brings out no genuine material:

* He is always right, he never knows nothing wrong. He always makes the right choices; even the choice he made doesn't seem right at first, he finds a new door and gets a second opportunity. * He can go to date and go to bed with any woman in the world, no woman ever can reject him. * His wounds heal very quickly -in just a few seconds, or at least until the next scene-; he never becomes permanently incapacitated nor will he ever die. * He can drive just about any type of vehicle of transportation; he can use every type of tools, machinery and even newly built technological devices; he is very handy and dexterous and is able to fix every mechanic problem. * Either silly or wrong, either rude or slang no matter what he says, no matter what word he spreads out he is always right and has the right of the last saying. No one can ever challenge him to be able to say the last word after him. What have I expected for! What superheroes are for?