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Synopsis

Mesrine is a two-part (Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One) 2008 French film directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet. The first part's script was based on the autobiographical book L'instinct de mort by French gangster Jacques Mesrine, while the second part detailed Mesrine's criminal career after his escape from prison, and his subsequent brutal end. The film has been referred to as the French version of the American film Scarface which starred Al Pacino.


The second film is narrating about Mesrine's life during 1973 until November 2, 1979, the day of his death. The story starts back in 1972, with Mesrine returning to France after departing from Canada. He is now with Sylvie, who became his mistress. He returns to Paris and returns with robberies, and forms a new band of robbers. However, in March 1973, he is arrested after a successful heist, but as he is to be transformed to the courtroom, he requests to use the bathroom, and retrieves a hidden revolver in the toilet. He brandishes a gun during the court, forces the guards to uncuff him, and takes him as hostage, while his apprentice, Michel, awaits, and the duo escapes. He returns back to robberies with him, but his obsession with robberies (including robbing two banks at the same time) causes Michel to abandon Mesrine. After two months, the French intelligence locates Mesrine's apartment, and Commissioner Broussard negotiates with Mesrine, who surrenders. He is brought on court and sentenced to 20 years in La Santé Prison.

During his time in prison, he finally reunites with his daughter, after 12 years of absence, and she is also present at his court. He also writes a book about his life, which angers his lawyer, who states that his biography places him in a difficult position, since he confessed to everything in public, but he rebuffs it. He also meets with François Besse, another convict and his solitary confinement neighbour, and hatches an escape plan; Besse smuggles a pepper spray through a cookie box in prison (which can pass through the detectors since it's covered in alluminum), while Mesrine meets with his lawyer, who smuggled dual handguns in her briefcase. Mesrine informs the guard to bring the case file from Besse (who has the files) and he Besse attacks and subdues the guards, and Mesrine attacking them as well. They take their uniforms, take another prisoner as a cover and head over the wall, where the prisoner is shot while trying to escape away with them. They manage to escape.

After several other robberies, Mesrine fools the media, calling himself "a revolutionary", and to bring Palestinian armed forces to slay down the French goverment. This angers Besse, and he leaves him. A year later, Mesrine contacts his old friend from prison, Charlie Bauer, and they also start a series of robberies. Mesrine becomes more and more dillusioned with the media, secretly meeting with reporters and giving controversial interviews. He also kidnaps a local billionaire, Henri Lelièvre, and hold him for ransom, and then sets him free after being paid. He also kidnaps Jaques Tiller, who wrote a report on him that he hates, and makes him strip naked, and then shots him dead. When Mesrine hears that Besse has been arrested in Belgium in the middle of the theft, and that Tiller survived his gunshot wounds, Charlie abandons him as well. Sylvie is more and more worried about Mesrine, and convinces him to leave the country.

On November 2, 1979, they leave their apartment disquised with Sylvie taking her poodle, but Broussard's men are after them. After checking the area, Mesrine and Sylvie arrive to their car and take all the cash and passports, intending to depart from France. Broussard is stuck in traffic and runs after them. At the intersection, a truck blocks Mesrine's way, and the doors open, revealing armed gunmen, who shot him dead. Broussard arrives, and orders Sylvie and her dog to be taken away, and grimly looks at Mesrine's dead body.