Sami Bouajila is a very good action/thriller actor and I've seen several films with him as the lead actor. They were all pretty good, so this film having him as the lead (Said) isn't going to be a bad film. Said is diagnosed with cancer and knows he doesn't have long to live so he's selling his business in order to leave something for his daughter Sara and her aunt, Catherine who are the true heirs to the property since Catherine is the sister of Said's deceased wife and the sawmill belonged to their father who is now dead too.
That part is the setup for why he's selling so abruptly. What ruins his plan is that a young employee (Janis) whose brother (Mehdi) is a criminal has stolen 8 kilos of dope from the local police evidence lockup and Mehdi is making Yanis hide the dope for him on the sawmill property. The way he does it makes no sense: making the kid switch cars with him and leave him the company SUV.
That's a dumb move that will immediately involve Said once the company vehicle is found to be missing, and another SUV, which Said doesn't recognize is there instead. Yeah, that's dumb. The dope is in a small enough bag that the kid could have just taken with him in the sawmill's SUV. That makes no sense at all. It turns out that Mehdi has contracted to steal back the dope from the police lockup for the dope's owner, a gang boss named Adama, who is a vicious sort of guy.
OK, so Mehdi is beaten up by Adama, because Mehdi was so stupid with his little plan to hand off the dope to his kid brother, and Adama goes to get the dope from the sawmill with a few of his crew who are also vicious guys. Adama then kills Mahdi once they get to the sawmill.
Said is going to go get the cops, but he sees the gang at the gas station, so Said guesses that someone is going to come for the dope and he goes back to the sawmill and gets out his double barrelled shotgun...
I know, it is sort of lame, but at least the sawmill guy is Sami Bouajila. Mayhem ensues and the killing scenes are pretty good, so there's that. Maybe 7 stars was too generous. Maybe not.
That part is the setup for why he's selling so abruptly. What ruins his plan is that a young employee (Janis) whose brother (Mehdi) is a criminal has stolen 8 kilos of dope from the local police evidence lockup and Mehdi is making Yanis hide the dope for him on the sawmill property. The way he does it makes no sense: making the kid switch cars with him and leave him the company SUV.
That's a dumb move that will immediately involve Said once the company vehicle is found to be missing, and another SUV, which Said doesn't recognize is there instead. Yeah, that's dumb. The dope is in a small enough bag that the kid could have just taken with him in the sawmill's SUV. That makes no sense at all. It turns out that Mehdi has contracted to steal back the dope from the police lockup for the dope's owner, a gang boss named Adama, who is a vicious sort of guy.
OK, so Mehdi is beaten up by Adama, because Mehdi was so stupid with his little plan to hand off the dope to his kid brother, and Adama goes to get the dope from the sawmill with a few of his crew who are also vicious guys. Adama then kills Mahdi once they get to the sawmill.
Said is going to go get the cops, but he sees the gang at the gas station, so Said guesses that someone is going to come for the dope and he goes back to the sawmill and gets out his double barrelled shotgun...
I know, it is sort of lame, but at least the sawmill guy is Sami Bouajila. Mayhem ensues and the killing scenes are pretty good, so there's that. Maybe 7 stars was too generous. Maybe not.