Disorder

An arthouse thriller which feels like the bare bones of The Transporter, because it has no set-up, no dialogue, no humour, no global perspective of who the baddies are or what they want. Vincent is a violent and brutal man but sometimes that's precisely what a bodyguard needs to be. He eats his spaghetti, he keeps his mouth shut, he drives fast and shoots home invaders. If only there was something more. Diane Kruger doesn't even get a smile out of him. A genre deconstruction devoid of passion.

Low-key thriller that gets under ones skin. Slow, quiet, with short blitz of brutality. Worth a shot if one loved Drive (2011).

Plot holes galore but when the finale sets in it's a pretty intense home invasion movie disguised as arthouse.

An OK thriller fueled by a good performance from Schoenaerts, but he has done even better work elsewhere. Director Winocour is able to build some suspenseful scenes, but the unfocused script keeps the film from rising to the next level. Plus points for the moody soundtrack.

Tight little thriller with a suberb performance by Schoenaerts. Side note to future reviewers this isn't Hitchcockian. Not everything with suspense is. I've already seen one review toss Hitchcockian at this.

The (French) Bodyguard.

I really appreciated the disorienting way that the director employed sound in the film, with music, white noise, and other sounds all combining for a disturbing and interior portrait of Vincent's disorder. It's so completely first person that it is actually difficult to connect with the other characters, who don't offer much. That's probably the point, but its interiority leaves it more as an interesting exercise than something that feels recognizably human.

Matthias Schoenaerts and odd choices of music work really well and slightly elevate this otherwise a little too laid back and a little too suspenseless thriller, without making it actually interesting. Too tame for a movie with this kind of setup called "Disorder".