french non thriller agent secret aka spy bound ( a completely meaningless title ) may be the only picture to give timbo hines war of the world a run for it money in the most walking scene in a single motion picture stake . frodo and the fellowship of the ring do not spend a much time walk a vincent cassel and monica bellucci and co do in frederic schoendoerffer exercise in designer tedium . admittedly it glamorous movie star glossily photograph walk in exotic location and but it not even walk to anywhere and it just purposeful but gratuitous walking . even when two frogman slip into the water to plant a mine it cut away to you guess it when and after 40 minute and bellucci reveals she plan to quit the french secret service and you think represent her leg must have get tire of all the walking . unfortunately for her and she fail to walk through custom with 150g of heroin her employer have plant on her and it not long before she walk down the endless pristine and very white corridor of a prison that look like it be design by louis vitton for a gap ad . luckily vincent cassel be able to walk past them by put on glass and a scarf and a bit of cardboard in his mouth and but he really cut up about it represent he go for a walk to his old girlfriend and them and after feed her cat and try to write and go for a walk to see another friend . even when he tail a suspect and he get out of his car to . do i even need to type the rest of the sentence . it a big budget picture for a french film and but it really do feel like the picture start without a script of any kind and since they have the crew and the actor they have to film something and anything and but the only thing they could think of be . walk . you can not help wonder if schoendoerffer be try for a pared down jean pierre melville style minimalism and but for most of the picture there even less than meet the eye go on here . the character be blank slate and the cynicism standard issue and even the reliable bruno coulais score never develop a real theme . which be a shame and because the plot isn not bad when it finally kick in in the last twenty minute . very loosely inspire by the sinking of the greenpeace ship rainbow warrior and it revolve around a plot to persuade an arm dealer to use his influence in africa to suit french interest by blow up a ship carry his late consignment . naturally thing go wrong and ulterior motif be reveal and everyone become expendable and monica get her tit out and the tone become completely schizoid a if the script finally arrive a few day before film finish and they rush to fit it all in . while for the first 90 minute it a film that equate boredom with realism and walk with paranoia and monosyllabic script with profundity and for the last couple of reel we get a half hearted car chase and an impressive car crash ( that lead to a moment of utter absurdity a a third viewing of the scene suddenly reveal a previously invisible survivor run across a motorway in plain sight ) and silly disguise and unarmed combat with a lesbian cia hitwoman and the obligatory symbolic fall off a building dream scene a it tick off the genre staple to throw in enough action to put together a decent trailer ( certainly a parachute jump and the opening cgi cosmic zoom from the dark side of the moon to close up on a ferry with an unfortunately ridiculous sense of scale seem design more for market than narrative purpose ) . there a good but all too brief moment with some shark and a neat touch where the victim of a setup by the french secret service have to pay the cost of the operation but while no film that begin with charles berling be kill can be all bad and this pretty much manage it . the fact that the film boast a surprising number of rave review from one time only reviewer with no post history from french language territory tell it own story .