Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
Crime 360
Nashville
FailArmy
Categories
Hit TV
Drama TV
Movies
True Crime
News
Sports
Reality
Classics
Sci-Fi & Action
Chills & Thrills
Comedy
Game Shows
Nature & Travel
History & Science
Food & Home
Lifestyle
Kids & Family
En Español
International
Anime+
Music
Sign In
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Directed by
Jean-François Richet
R
2010
2h 13m
Action
,
Crime
,
and more
7.4
81%
82%
7.3
Watch Free
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats - from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks.
More
Cast of Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Vincent Cassel
Jacques Mesrine
Ludivine Sagnier
Sylvie Jeanjacquot
Mathieu Amalric
François Besse
Gérard Lanvin
Charly Bauer
Samuel Le Bihan
Michel Ardouin
Olivier Gourmet
Commissioner Broussard
Georges Wilson
Henri Lelièvre
Michel Duchaussoy
Pierre André Mesrine, father of Jacques
Anne Consigny
Lawyer of Jacques Mesrine
Laure Marsac
Interview reporter
Alain Fromager
Jacques Dallier, journalist for Minute
Alain Doutey
President of the court in Compiègne
Arsène Mosca
Jojo, policeman
Christophe Vandevelde
Inspector Gégé
Luc Thuillier
Commissioner OCRB / Lucien Aimé-Blanc
Serge Biavan
Inspector SRPJ
Pascal Elso
Commissioner SRPJ
Isabelle Vitari
Cashier
Michaël Vander-Meiren
Gendarme in Compiègne
Nicolas Abraham
Grangier
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
Yes, he was a bad guy; but what a great story.
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Jeff Meyers
Cassel tackles his role like it's the ultimate one-man show, filling his mustachioed character with a feral swagger that conveys tightly coiled threat and sexual charisma. It's not a particularly insightful performance, but it certainly feels authentic...
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...both movies would have been better served had they been edited down into one consistently engrossing thriller.
Sacramento News & Review
Jim Lane
... crackles with tension and violence, driven by [Vincent] Cassel's powerhouse performance.
Entertainment Spectrum
Keith Cohen
This masterpiece combines the best of 'Scarface,' 'The Godfather' and 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Vincent Cassel tackles the demanding lead role and is simply magnificent. There is no shortage of action, violence and ...
Slant Magazine
Simon Abrams
According to this lofty mandate, the film shouldn't be judged as a historically meretricious account.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Director Jean-Francois Richet and screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri's movie generates much heat, but little light.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Public Enemy #1 proves the theory that a film must be more than the sum of its parts. These movies both have some great parts but the sum is less than a masterpiece.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Jacques Mesrine's end may be inevitable, but he certainly doesn't bore us along the way.
Dallas Morning News
Cary Darling
[It] doesn't dig deeply into why Mesrine was the way he was. It's propelled by such a forceful performance from Cassel that, in the end, it hardly matters.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In the title role, Vincent Cassel is a relentless force...
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Mesrine's life, however fascinating, had a certain repetitive quality to it (commit a crime, go to prison, escape, meet a girl, commit a crime, etc.), and the movie eventually starts to feel this way as well.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Cassel, looking hopped-up and wily -- and gaining considerable heft to play the celebrity outlaw in his middle age -- once again delivers a performance of full-force magnetism.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Gantz's camera gets right in the thick of the action, deliriously weaving and whirling up close. It's as high on Mesrine's crimes as he is, and Cassel exchanges the stolid tension of Part 1 for a manic theatricality.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
At its best, it's a mesmerizing portrait of a man who mesmerized a lot of people, right up to that bloody display of police power on the Paris streets.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
If there's ever a film titled Bourne vs. Mesrine, the bout will end in the first round and the crown will return to Paris.
Village Voice
Nicolas Rapold
Mesrine's promised end in November 1979 arrives as history recorded it, but, by that time, you're hoping the next vogue in biopics is the short film.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Performs the unlikely trick of being both taut and plotless.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Director Jean-Francois Richet shows a career in crime with pulse-pounding moments of pure cinema, then lets you decide what to make of this homicidal sociopath.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is episodic to a fault, with few scenes playing more than a minute or two. The effect of Richet's hyperventilating filmmaking is akin to that of an extended-play trailer.
Watch Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 Videos
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1
Trailer
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
