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An exemplary French filmmaking, which is also dominated by the good old Czech dubbing. Without it I don’t think it would be worth the five stars, but the dubbing makes Alain Delon and Jean-Louis Trintignant seem so perfect that the film gives you goosebumps throughout the whole story, which is essential for a proper French crime drama. (2017.10.15)

It looks absolutely great at first. Alain Delon is just classically good as a proper cop, but Jean-Louis Trintignant is absolutely brilliant as the thug. Unfortunately, as the film builds up, the escalation sort of fades away, and the finale left me rather disappointed, and those feelings lingered mostly. That’s too bad. (2017.01.06)

As much as I love Delon, here he was not the best choice. This is a role for someone from the Ventura or Gabin class, and not for such a “dandy". Alain would be more suited to the role of the tough guy cop. Still, he's good, just not as good as he could have been and should have been. And this is actually the only complaint, because otherwise Flic Story is a classic 70s French crime story with all the strengths that implies. And there are plenty of them -- no doubt about it. (2008.07.29)