Watch: Nid de guêpes 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape. After a frantic chase, the officers seek refuge, with their prisoner, in a warehouse located in the heart of an industrial park. There they meet up with a gang that has come to steal computer material. Meanwhile, Nexhep’s killers surround the warehouse?.
Plot: Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape…
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a pure B-movie!
Dry, harsh, without concession. Nid de guêpes is a pure B-movie strongly inspired by Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13th, but directed with professionalism and a real personal style. After the unbalanced The brotherhood of the wolves and The crimson rivers, here comes the first real achievement in the new wave of French entertaining movies. Don’t hesitate!
Well-made but unoriginal action flick
The worst with Nid de guêpes is not really the lack of originality. More than a rehash of Assault on precinct 13 it copies and pastes the narrative structure of Night of the living dead. But it’s pretty well done with only a few mild and immature scenes. The worst is how they tried to sell this stuff: the trailer is awful (I only went to see it for the technical interest of some scenes I heard about) and the promotional tour failed to arouse people’s interest on some good points. So if you want to play low key with a basic structure which shan’t lead viewers astray and won’t appeal to the critics you must have good marketing men. (Hey! it’s always cool when a good director can blame his failure on the lame marketing men)OK. Now the true weak points according to me.
1- the converging paths of three different groups of people as a starting point. It kills the suspense about what will come up: almost everyone knows and expects the assault to take place. This delaying dodge is not as compelling as it might have been (Romero and Carpenter stay focused from the start on one single inescapable path).
2- corollary: the care for every guy involved depends too much on the individual story of his group. OK, narrative and visual shortcuts are really efficient but I think it could have been more tense than the dispatching experimented here. The hell with all those damned sentimentalist backstories to plastic-surge characters! it only shows a director’s lack of self-confidence to rely on simple images and pure action. The same goes with the assault forces: with a big fat backstory to back their motivation it’s yet another plot element written off from the audience’s intelligence (imagination, identification, whatever you call it, the McGuffin rules – note to discursive film-fiddlers: maybe you need to start over with The Birds, Duel and Jaws?). Which leads to…
3- narrative space encompassing: the assault death squadron is weakly used. I would point out here the major flaw (originality flaw) since the helmet guys are just as dynamic as George Romero’s Zombies. The general rhythm is o.k., that’s why it seems not to matter on the whole. But the screenplay (co-writ by Siri’s former movie teacher) seems quite pleased with itself once the global thing is set up.
4- if you will kill your heroes try not to care for their background (oh! it’s your daughter in the photograph? she’s so cute). Cheap tricks never pay off: we only want them to care for their lives here and now! …
Bottom line: building up from a basic structure is not piece of cake or as some could say ‘Movie making for dummies’. But even if you’ve learnt a lot from the classics you need to be original to go one step further: basically, show the audience you got guts.
-UPDATE (24/1/05)- On second viewing the core problem is definitely about the narrative space encompassing. The point being the warehouse is too vast a building to make the pressure of the assault a permanent one (just compare with the small rooms in Night of the living dead or Assault on p13). Actually there are quite a few moments in the movie when the assault stops and you may wonder why those über-equipped terrorists take so much time trying to get in through the main entrance. That’s not so much ‘icebox logic’ as a real narrative and structural flaw. What with the big warehouse and the three distinct narrative groups inside, Nid de guêpes lacks a sense of claustrophobia, of some outer pressure crushing gradually inwards from every wall.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Florent-Emilio Siri
Writer Florent-Emilio Siri, Jean-François Tarnowski
Actors Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès
Country France
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Technovision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires GTC, Joinville, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)