Nest, The

aka: Nid de Guêpes
France 2002, 103 minutes
Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
In French, English with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Action/Adventure

Feat. Nadia Farès, Samy Naceri, Benoit Magimel

Aroview: A brutally efficient and stylish French action yarn about a night-time standoff between various crims, security guards and an army of Albanian mafiosos in a sprawling warehouse, that reaches the archetypal intensity of the best of genre.

Fares plays an elite police commando who must deliver an evil mobster to an international tribunal, but is ambushed and waylaid, leading to a messy siege situation reminiscent of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, but with a more pulse-pounding tempo. This will be a nice surprise for action fans, the pace never relaxing.