STUDIO: Music Box | DIRECTOR: Jerome Salle | CAST: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Karl Roden, Mélanie Thierry
BLU-RAY & DVD RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2012 | PRICE: DVD $29.95
BONUSES: digital comic book, featurette
SPECS: NR | 108 min. | Foreign language action | 2.35:1 widescreen | Dolby Digital 5.1 | French, English and Croatian with English subtitlesRATINGS (out of 5 dishes): Movie
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The 2008 action-thriller film The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch is the first big-screen adaptation of the wildly popular Belgian series of Largo Winch graphic novels by Philippe Francq
Tomer Sisley prepares for high adventure as Largo Winch.
Imagine if the hero of last year’s high-finance thriller Margin Call was Jason Statham (Killer Elite) instead of Zachary Quinto (Star Trek), and what if instead of staring into a computer monitor, he spent his time flying around the world defending his mega-corporation with guns and broken furniture? That’s the high-flying concept of Largo Winch, a unique hybrid of cerebral business thriller with an action-loaded globe-trotting adventure.
Spot-on casting puts the show over the top. Tomer Sisley (Sleepless Night) is the titular Largo Winch, the adopted heir of zillionaire industrialist Nerio Winch (Miki Manojlovic, Cirkus Coumbia), who inherits a markets-moving Hong Kong-based corporation worth billions; the twist is, Largo is brilliant but damaged, spending his time as an adventure-seeking castaway in dicey tropical ports of call. Nerio’s right-hand woman (Nowhere Boy‘s Kristin Scott Thomas, lovely but icy as ever) finds Largo, introduces him to the board of directors and instantly makes him a target for assassination.
Of course there are double-agents, red herrings, gun fights (in the board room!), a convenient love interest (yummy Melanie Thierry of Babylon A.D.), a climactic roof-top knife fight and a ticking clock. All of this added together should have yielded an international hit, or at least an intriguing oddity, but no such luck for this French/Belgian co-production which grossed a not-bad $17 million overseas. Happily, it can be enjoyed in U.S. homes four years later!
As a sidelight, keep an eye out for 2011’s The Burma Conspiracy, renamed Largo Winch II and once again starring Sisley alongside new “Winch Girl” Sharon Stone!
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