French film following the return home of a special operations soldier who is clearly suffering from PTSD. She is stationed as part of the Sentinel program which deploys soldiers on French soil to preemptively observe and prevent potential terror events. This station is, in her mind, a "beat cop" sort of job and way beneath her training. In this mental state she finds her sister has been raped and beat up by a foreign diplomat who is untouchable by the law. So... vigilante justice. What is a bit interesting to me is the difference between a French and US vigilante justice movie. The French version is much slower, letting the characters emotive state really show through slow and basically silent scenes. The slow pan is a common tool of the director. The action is present, but not dominant. Aside from the exercise of comparison though, this film did not wow.
2 stars (out of 5)
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