Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Editing
Ruthless cutting—no scene overstays, breathless momentum never breaks.
Direction
Cavayé wrings maximum tension from hospital corridors and subway tunnels.
Acting
Lellouche's panic feels authentically civilian, not action-hero cool.
Director
Fred Cavayé
Gilles Lellouche
Samuel Pierret
Roschdy Zem
Hugo Sartet
Gérard Lanvin
Commander Patrick Werner
Elena Anaya
Nadia Pierret
Mireille Perrier
Commander Catherine Fabre
Claire Pérot
Captain Anaïs Susini
Moussa Maaskri
Captain Vogel
Pierre Benoist
Captain Mercier
Valérie Dashwood
Captain Moreau
Virgile Bramly
Captain Mansart
Nicky Naudé
Captain Richert
Adel Bencherif
Luc Sartet
Vincent Colombe
Internal on guard
Chems Dahmani
Caregiver
Grégoire Bonnet
Jaffart, head of DPJ
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the mid-2000s 'New French Extremity' wave—arthouse sensibilities meeting genre brutality, though Cavayé keeps it more accessible than Noé or Dumont.
Remade by Netflix in 2019 with Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie—proof Hollywood can't resist French efficiency, even when they dilute it.
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