Mesrine tells the story of the real-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine (pronounced Merine), who was active as a bank robber, kidnapper, gun-runner and occasional radical in the 1960s and 1970s. He was finally gunned down in a deliberate execution by the French police in 1979, an execution that opens the movie before returning to the late 1950s when Mesrine returns to Paris from Algeria. Continue reading Mesrine