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GANG OF THE CARIBBEAN

Staff

February 4, 2021283 views0

Taking a fairly unknown true-crime story from the 1970s and turning it into a run-of-the-mill retro caper flick, Les Gang des Antillais (The Antillais Gang) depicts the travails of France’s seldom-filmed West Indian population, following a group of men who turned to armed robbery as a means to combat poverty and fight back against a nation that betrayed them. Adapted from Loic Lery’s autobiographical account by director Jean-Claude Barny (Neg Maron), this ambitious but flawed historical thriller has a few good tidbits and lots of predictable or otherwise poorly conceived moments, resulting in an initially promising piece of Gallic blaxploitation that never delivers.

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