22 Bullets

Based on a true story, though much indebted to Coppola's The Godfather , this tough French thriller (aka L'Immortel ) begins with principled gangster Charly Matteï (Jean Reno), surviving the eponymous 22 bullets he takes in a Marseilles car park and setting out to avenge himself on the unprincipled rival who arranged the assassination. The 60-year-old Berry is no stranger to the policier (he appeared in La Balance , one of my favourite French crime movies of the past 30 years) and here plays a fellow gangster and directs with a firm, no-nonsense hand.