Whether or not Vasilis Katsoupis’s film achieves escape velocity from genre limitations though overt sociopolitical commentary is questionable.
The film remains one of cinema’s great, persuasive testaments to the flimsiness of the precarious tightrope walk that is our lives.
If the remake stinks, that’s only because it removes the moody pacing and reveals the essential silliness under the former’s classy Euro-glaze.
The film is little more than a compendium of Hollywood crime-film citations held together by that hoariest of cat-and-mouse clichés.