Product Details

• Actors: Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel, Vahina Giocante
• Directors: Laurent Tuel
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Phase 4 Films
• DVD Release Date: July 20, 2010
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003J7HO6E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,221 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ultimate Heist" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gaspard is terrific!, May 3, 2011

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Batgirl (VA Beach) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate Heist (DVD)

I don't know why everybody is hating on this movie. I preferred to set the audio fo french with english subtitles so I could hear Gaspard's voice. If the movie is in french and dubbed in english of course their mouths aren't going to match the words. The scenery is beautiful and Gaspard is absolutely wonderful. I didn't feel the title was misleading at all - it is about this family's Ultimate Heist. I loved this movie and have watched it over and over again.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For Avid Jean Reno Fans Only, August 13, 2010

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Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Heist (DVD)

Let me start this review by saying that I am a big fan of Jean Reno, and without his name I wouldn't have seen this half-baked French film "Le premier cercle" ("Ultimate Heist"), in which Jean Reno plays Milo Malakian, head of a crime family thinking of retirement. "Le premier cercle" has one great thing about it and it is, not surprisingly, Jean Reno himself. Sadly he and his charismatic acting is the only thing I can recommend about the film.

Jean Reno is credible as Milo, head of the Malakian clan. Gaspard Ulliel ("A Very Long Engagement" "Hannibal Rising") is his son Anton. Anton is beginning to be fed up with his father's business. Anton is also in love with a care worker Elodie (Vahina Giocante) and thinks of leaving his family when his father devises a plan for a big heist.

This film may be promoted as a heist movie, but its "heist" is only uninteresting and unoriginal part of the narrative, which is more about the relations between Reno's character and others surrounding him. There is a shoot-out sequence, which is simply bland and uninspired. However, what is really frustrating is not the absence of "big" actions, but the lazy and unimaginative storytelling of the director Laurent Tuel. In spite of the decent jobs from the capable cast, the film fails to build up the tension. The strained relationships between characters lack emotional impact, which the film desperately needs.

If you are an avid Jean Reno fan like me, you might love this one. He is as wonderful as ever, believable as concerned father and ruthless killer. Otherwise, just stay away and watch "Ronin" instead.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A LOT OF BORING SCENES, August 18, 2010

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Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Heist (DVD)

The movie centers around the Malakian crime family, an Armenian heritage family living in France. Anton is the son of the crime boss. He wants out, but doesn't want to offend his family so he stays in because he is now French and sits on a fence post. The cops are after the family, but are too ineffective to make a case against them. The movie starts out with a clever car theft, but then quickly digresses in a series of boring scenes. You don't get to feel for any of the characters, and you are confused as to which side to root for. You just wish somebody would do something. The family plans a final ultimate heist which will succeed if the French cops are too stupid to use their radio to stop their get away. The music at times was more fit for a B horror movie. Brief nudity, sex, and a little violence. Keep the fast forward on the remote handy.