Young Achille is severely beaten-up by a group of unknown street kids in the subway, and after that travels to the country house of his well-to-do family aunt to recuperate. It's clear by his taciturn, almost frozen behavior that he's severely traumatized, and in the first half hour of the movie I was intrigued where this would lead to, especially when he's confronted with Brian, an aggressive local thug, who clearly triggers his fears and anxieties.
Now I would have understood it, if he considered this obnoxious and dangerous guy as some sort of incarnation or substitute of the ones that maltreated him, and that his troubled mind would make him impose on Brian some sort of revenge "by-proxy". But here the writers and director took a mind-boggling U-turn, by out-of the blue turning Achille into a relentless mass murderer on the loose, walking through the dark neighborhood like a crazed zombie, killing everyone he stumbles upon, to at last get to his adversary.
We don't get any explanation why he kills all these friends and family-members, so the only motivation seems to be that he just snapped completely out-of his mind. Rather easy for the writers, I would say. The last scene of the movie points at a cynical conclusion, but we'll never know for real, because they cut the story short right then and there.
Maybe the attractive photography deserves some praise, and the guy that played Achille at least was nice to look at, but for the rest I was pretty disappointed, they turned an in itself interesting premise into this lame dime-a-dozen B-film.
Now I would have understood it, if he considered this obnoxious and dangerous guy as some sort of incarnation or substitute of the ones that maltreated him, and that his troubled mind would make him impose on Brian some sort of revenge "by-proxy". But here the writers and director took a mind-boggling U-turn, by out-of the blue turning Achille into a relentless mass murderer on the loose, walking through the dark neighborhood like a crazed zombie, killing everyone he stumbles upon, to at last get to his adversary.
We don't get any explanation why he kills all these friends and family-members, so the only motivation seems to be that he just snapped completely out-of his mind. Rather easy for the writers, I would say. The last scene of the movie points at a cynical conclusion, but we'll never know for real, because they cut the story short right then and there.
Maybe the attractive photography deserves some praise, and the guy that played Achille at least was nice to look at, but for the rest I was pretty disappointed, they turned an in itself interesting premise into this lame dime-a-dozen B-film.