Tchéky Karyo

Tcheky Karyo plays the villain in Jan Kounen's Dobermann. Andy Richards's review takes the film's palette for something salvaged out of Sergio Leone's westerns and lays out its two poles: Vincent Cassel's character stands on the good side, not through any moral development but because he at least does not shoot women in the back. Philip Strick, in his piece on The Patriot, draws attention to a habit of casting instead, calling the militiaman Karyo plays the Frenchman Roland Emmerich puts into every film of his, and counting the character an action man and a comic figure at once. Strick matches the same pattern with another French performer in another of Emmerich's films.