''Rabid Dogs'' (

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

: ''Enragés'') is a 2015 Franco-Canadian

crime thriller Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professiona ...

film written and directed by

Éric Hannezo Éric eʁikis a French masculine given name, the equivalent of English Eric. In French-speaking Canada and Belgium it is also sometimes unaccented, and pronounced "Eric" as English with the stress on the "i". A notable French exception is Erik ...

and starring

Lambert Wilson Lambert Nicolas Wilson (; né Willson, 3 August 1958) is a French actor and theatre director. He is a seven-time Cesar Award nominee, four for César Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and three for César Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Sup ...

Guillaume Gouix Guillaume Gouix (; born 30 November 1983) is a French actor, director and screenwriter. He starred in the limited television series '' Gone for Good'' (2021). Career Guillaume Gouix learned acting at the Conservatory of Marseille, then at the ...

and

Virginie Ledoyen Virginie Fernández (born 15 November 1976), known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen (), is a French actress. She has appeared in French, English and American films. Life and career Ledoyen was born in Paris and raised in Aubervilliers, the da ...

. It is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. It was screened as part of the Cinéma de la Plage programme at the

2015 Cannes Film Festival The 68th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 2015. Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel Coen were the Co-Presidents of the Jury for the main competition, marking the first time that two people co-chaired the jury. Since the Coen brothers ...

Plot

downtown Montreal Downtown Montreal (French language, French: ''Centre-Ville de Montréal'') is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The district is situated on the southernmost slope of Mount Royal, and occupies the western portion of the ...

, four criminals rob a local bank and steal over $2 million in cash. The local police and bank security guards engage the robbers in a gunfight, wounding their leader, known only as 'The Boss'. Fleeing to an underground shopping center, the four are soon spotted and chased into the car park garage where they take a man and woman hostage. After one of the criminals accidentally kills the male hostage, the police back away and allow them to take the woman hostage with them in her car. They hide their getaway car at a warehouse where the Boss, aware that he will not get far with his bullet wound, stays behind to engage the pursuing police long enough so his three accomplices, Sabri, Manu and Vincent, escape while the Boss dies after getting shot by the police. Needing a new getaway car, the three surviving criminals stop a passing Volvo SUV and force the middle aged man, a father who claims that he is taking his sick four-year-old daughter to the hospital, to drive them to their destination. The woman, whose mouth is gagged with tape, holds the girl close to protect her. Once outside the city, they take a back road to lead them to their destination. However, soon they run into a traffic accident where an overturned truck has spilled its packages on the road. The father is forced to plead to the police on the scene to let them pass in order to get his sick daughter to the hospital. Needing fuel, they stop at a rural garage where after paying for the gas and some food and beverages, the garage owner/clerk recognizes one of the robbers from a news report on the nearby TV set, resulting in Sabri killing him after he attempts to stop them from leaving. As it gets dark, they stop off the road for a rest where the woman attempts to escape while carrying the sedate little girl with her, but she is quickly recaptured. The group then gets lost and takes the wrong road and ends up in a small rural town that is celebrating a festival. While one of the criminals, Manu, accompanies the father and the young woman to a house after a local offers to help them with the small child, Vincent attempts to make a run for it by stealing all of the bank loot for himself, but Sabri soon catches up to him and shoots him for his treachery. When Manu suspects that the Father and Woman plot to escape, he pulls out his gun leading to a fight resulting in him getting stabbed (non-fatally), but the Father and Woman are soon recaptured. After shooting and killing two armed locals who try to stop them, the group continues on. After traveling on another dark back road, the group arrives at a lake where Sabri has arraigned for a boat to pick them up to take them across the border. As Sabri orders the Father and Woman out of the vehicle, the Father manages to break a beer bottle and kills Manu by stabbing him in the neck, then takes his gun and shoots and kills Sabri, but not before Sabri manages to return fire and seriously wound the Woman. Then, instead of helping the Woman, the Father brutally shoots her to death and kills Vincent as well, who is still wounded. The Father takes all of the stolen bank cash in his vehicle and drives away, leaving behind the dead bodies of Sabri, Manu, Vincent, and the unnamed woman hostage. In the morning, as the Father drives away we hear a news report about the police still looking for the three bank robbers, as well as another news story about a kidnapping... of a young four-year-old girl, revealing that the Father is actually a criminal himself who abducted the little girl and left a ransom message for the girl's parents.

Cast

as The Father *

as Sabri *

as The Woman *

Franck Gastambide Franck Gastambide (; born 31 October 1978) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He became famous in 2009 after creating the first web series from Canal+, ''Kaïra Shopping'', which was later shown on television and adapte ...

as Manu * François Arnaud as Vincent *

Laurent Lucas Laurent Lucas (born 20 July 1965) is a French actor. Life and career A student of the Charles Dullin school, Lucas soon became one of the most admired young performers in the Strasbourg National Theatre. He first emerged on the scene with his r ...

as The Boss * Gabrielle Lazure as Marie *

Pierre Lebeau Pierre Lebeau (born 22 July 1954) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for major roles in Quebec big-box movies such as ''Séraphin: Heart of Stone'' and the four-part ''Les Boys'' series. Life and career His acting career started on the theatr ...

as Gas station attendant

Reception

It has a score of 51% on

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References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 4379180 2015 films 2015 crime thriller films French crime thriller films Canadian crime thriller films Films about hostage taking Canadian road movies 2010s road movies Remakes of Italian films 2015 directorial debut films French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films 2010s French films 2010s French-language films