Chrysalis Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 12176

Average Rating: 2.5/4

# of Ratings: 8

Theatrical Release Date: 06/13/2008

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 03/17/2009

Language: French

Genre: Crime, Thriller

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Julien Leclercq

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry, Claude Perron, Alain Figlarz

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Yojimbo - wrote on 10/25/2012

A Paris cop encounters a series of victims with the same strange markings around their eyes and tracks his suspect to a hi-tec trauma hospital. Chrysalis features a premise built around memory manipulation, very much in the same vein as Total Recall and has the same blend of washed out cinematography and near future technology as Minority Report. Throw in some bone crunching fist fights and a couple of shoot outs and you have a French tech noir executed with some visual panache but little in the way of original ideas. What there is of it is efficiently done but the plot is a little too flimsy and the twist in the tale glaringly obvious, making the conclusion fail to live up to the promise of its early scenes. It's certainly not a bad film by any means, but the extremely similar Minority …

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