The Crimson Rivers 2000 123movies

Watch: Les Rivières pourpres 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Guernon, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Rémy Caillois, whose corpse was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly covered in bruises and bleeding wounds, the result of some five hours of bestial torture including quasi-surgical amputation of hands cauterized to prevent bleeding to death- and eyes. Guernon is a closed society of virtually incestuous scientists, de facto succeeding to their parents’ posts; the eye-doctor, formerly on the staff, says hereditary genetic diseases are the price of such elitism, but in recent years spread to the simple farming families. Inspector Max Kerkerian examines two crimes in the town: a school break-in with theft of old photos and archive papers as well as a graveyard desecration of Judith Herault, the daughter of local nun Andrée, who lives in a dark cell since 15 years and mumbles the demons who made an attempt of both of their lives have returned to prevent the child endanger their secret. As both police investigations continue, the loner sleuths meet; secrets and other corpses are found, till it all ties together..
Plot: Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl’s grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 62,422
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	49/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1276 Popularity: 12.839 | TMDB

Reviews:

Cutting-edge thriller!
Although french, this movie is better than most hollywood churned wannabes. A gripping thriller with a slightly outlandish plot revolving around genetics and nazism. But dont let that turn u off. The film is absolute edge-of-the-seat fare. Jean reno is good as usual but vincent cassel dishes out excellent acting nuances which add to his character. Great acting! The scenes set in winter among the French Rhone Alpes are breath taking to say the least. The thrills keep on coming without having to take resort to loud background music, which make these moments even more rivetting. The english dubbing is good without too many quirks. RECOMMENDED! [Writing “Highly Recommended” would make you biased! ;-)]

Needlessly confusing
So hands up, who knows which babies were swapped, when, where and why, who got run down by the lorry, why the mother went to live in a convent, and just what happened to the ‘bad’ twin once her death had been faked? Oh, and can anybody explain why none of this was explained.

Thankfully, all of the above has become clear to me now, but only after sifting through the IMDb message boards for this film. Turns out, the film’s star Vincent Cassel doesn’t have a clue either. It also turns out that “everything is revealed” on the DVD making-of. Great.

But it’s a real shame though, because they genuinely had a tense thriller on their hands before it descended into Nazi nonsense. The atmosphere was simmering for the opening hour or so, and using the two detective’s investigations as two separate narrative strands was some really intelligent film-making. But then the plot gets ridiculous and unclear, and when you do eventually realise the extent of the convoluted plot, you can understand why they didn’t put any explanations of it in. It’s a load of nonsense.

P.S. I’ve decided not to mention the 3 minutes of Jet Li theatrics somewhere in the middle of this film. I thought it would save embarrassment for all concerned were I to merely brush over it.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 2365000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director Mathieu Kassovitz
Writer Jean-Christophe Grangé, Mathieu Kassovitz
Actors Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès
Country France
Awards 1 win & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo and C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France
Film Length 2,949 m (Sweden), 2,957 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, Digital (Texas Instruments DLP 1280 x 1024, 1.9 : 1 anamorphic)