Hold-up

A man named Grimm assembles an unexpectedly well-considered plan to rob a bank: go in dressed as a clown, create a hostage situation, and walk out through the police cordon as one of the hostages. The plan works and the trouble starts afterwards, since getting out of the city turns out to be far harder than the robbery. Alexandre Arcady adapted Jay Cronley's novel, which was later remade in the United States. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads and, this late in his career, is still doing his own dangerous work. Its best perception is how a city and its bureaucracy systematically defeat a man who planned everything. Who it is for: viewers who like eighties French crime comedy and Belmondo. Who it is not for: anyone wanting a realistic heist, since the register stays light.