'Dobermann' (1997) – Jan Kounen.

The 90s saw a riotously confrontational, hugely welcome renaissance of thematically darker, controversially violent, far more impactful European genre cinema. 'La Haine', 'Man Bites Dog', 'Baby Blood, and thrill-miester General, Jan Kounen's hyperbolically intense, ballistically bellicose, flint-edged gun-fest 'Dobermann'. Ostensibly a cartoonishly violent, orgiastically irreverent, grenade-garlanded gangster film, wherein handsome, uncommonly virile, dead-eyed gunslinger, Yann (Vincent Cassel), his implausibly attractive partner in crime 'Nat The gypsy' (Monica Bellucci), and their no less bellicose band of Gun-Happy thugs perpetrate an audacious heist whose explosive machinations rather dangerously attracts the increasingly grisly attentions of dangerously psychotic Cop,  (Tcheky Kargo). 

The despicable sadist, Christini utilizes a brutalist methodology that not so much blurs the line between good and evil, it makes him the unequivocal, coke-fuelled, maniacally immoral villain of the piece. In this thrillingly topsy-turvy crepuscular world wherein cinematically cool, leather-jacketed gangsters, and their no less radical, pulchritudinous, bazooka-blasting molls are the heroes, and the wholly corrupted cops are the legitimate villains. Maverick film-maker, Jan Kounen's feral, vaingloriously visceral 'Dobermann' is a bloodthirsty B-Movie beast indeed, boisterously performed by a talented cast, with eye-poppingly explosive, serotonin-spiking action sequences. Cleverly mixing the pop-noir nihilism of influential 60s French film-maker Jean-Pierre Mocky, frequently ribald, expletive-laden dialogue, with the slickly kinetic, daredevil camera pyrotechnics to excitingly create one of the more visually spectacular, morally perverse, bullet-paced action movies of the 90s!!