La Sirène rouge (2002) - film review

One day a 12-year old girl named Alice walks into a police station and states that her mother is a murderer.  When the police refuse to take her seriously, she has no option than to go on the run.  She meets a strange man, Hugo, who belongs to an organisation engaged in an armed combat for world freedom.  They head for Portugal to look for the girl’s missing father, and end up being pursued by a gang of ruthless killers...

Sirène rouge is yet another slavish attempt by a French film director to imitate the American blockbuster action thriller.  With an implausible storyline, two dimensional characters and the most pretentious and distracting production design imaginable (the kind you’d find in teenager’s computer game), the film manages to be both tedious and juvenile, a thoroughly vacuous and unrewarding excursion into the abyss of mediocrity.

© James Travers 2007

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