It may sound strange, a police officer with Steve’s seniority and experience who acknowledges his powerlessness (first powerlessness) in the face of a criminal, but who also sought out a hired killer to resolve what was already strange in itself, namely his inability to catch the victim. I understand perfectly well that there are many dead hours, you know, which, extra-literarily speaking, are not visible, but which are time involved in the emotional resistance of a man who only has his salary, his generous pension system and his seniority to avenge his two friends in the Paris Police Department; perhaps that is why, in medias res, the viewer has an itch of curiosity to know, no… I correct myself, to understand Steve’s despair at seeing his partner Frank Matthews dead, without being able to take legal action against Jacques Brizard. To make matters worse, it did not help his nerves and his temperament at all not to have a woman by his side emotionally – but that is a classic trait of all policemen – except on certain occasions, and on the other hand, that he has been kidnapped and most likely taken to the gallows, but has escaped and is fleeing towards the Gare Nord or another station, who knows, and has suddenly decided to hire a hitman. That’s why I said it would sound strange. This is where John Deray (Michael Caine) comes into the equation, that old friend Steve lost touch with and now finds again, coincidentally as a hitman on the recommendation of a third party, and speaking of the third party who recommends him, this is where Maurice Ronet comes in, the refined and almost metrosexual policeman who serves as an intermediary, a role or disguise for Ronnet, by the way, far removed from his usual roles as a member of the upper middle class, or occasional industrious businessman in crisis, or existential suicide in a last-minute fling, as well as a womaniser, of course; and Mason needs no introduction. So that’s how it is. Deray accepts the deal, but when he hears that it’s Brizard, he asks for 50,000.

According to the toad, it’s the stone, says the apothegm of Boca del Río. He gets it, and that’s it. We’ll see him competing against Julienne, Brizard’s daughter, on a narrow road with long curves. It’s for hormonal sport and for 50,000. Sports car versus sports car, she with her beautiful big eyes and euphoric smile even before winning, he, manly and without losing his composure, which he will continue to have as Bruce Wayne’s butler at 80, rivets and turns kicking up dust. He has earned her respect, and the very nice girl believes she deserves his. He stops, and they even have a drink together. Something is born, he would hate it to be love, God forbid to the daughter of his victim. Brizard investigates the guest invited by the daughter to the residence with cameras even in the toilet. Steve Ventura has included a fake CV that immediately catches the eye of the French-speaking tycoon and invites him to a construction site. There they meet the informant who told Steve that 400 kilos of heroin would arrive. In a game of ambiguities, as the lift takes them to the top of the building on scaffolding, Deray tells him that he is in the business of eliminating people, and his victim asks for proof of something for which he himself, Brizard, is a victim. The victim, to impress the victim, will be the informant. Deray pushes him and that’s it. He has joined the crook’s payroll while Steve Ventura flies to Marseille believing he can interrupt what he started. When Deray and another man are sent to exchange heroin for money, a fight breaks out. Brizard leaves for Argentina and gives orders to get rid of the man who is pursuing his daughter, and a new hitman. The killer eliminates the killers and will soon be face to face with Steve. Steve announces that he has interrupted the contract for which he had already given him an advance. ‘Consider keeping the advance and I’ll kill him,’ says Steve. He wasn’t joking. He will be the one to put an end to this story in the middle of the tycoon’s party while dancing with his daughter. Deray tells him that he doesn’t receive free money and will help him. He wasn’t joking either, and together they face Brizard’s men. Deray dies. Justice is lame, but it arrives, even if it’s at a house party.

trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFQVUxy3NQk