La Loi de Murphy (2009)
Directed by Christophe Campos

Film Review

Well, assuming you haven't been completely put off this film by its frenetic, sickeningly pretentious opening credits sequence, which does just about everything it can to create a stampede towards the door marked 'exit', you're unlikely to derive much consolation or enjoyment from what follows in this decidedly facile comedy.  Christophe Campos may have a future as a graphic design artist, but, judging by his first feature length film, it is unlikely he will make much impact as a director.  Here he throws an extremely talented ensemble - Pio Marmaï, Dominique Pinon, Fanny Valette, Omar Sy (future star of the French hit comedy Intouchables) - into his cinematic helter-skelter, much as a careless butcher might throw meat into a mincer, with a not too dissimilar outcome.  La Loi de Murphy starts out with a reasonable premise but instead of building on this it merely mauls it to death like a half-starved wolf eating its own cubs.  Hideously self-conscious and inept to a staggering degree, it's amazing the film was ever able to find a distributor, let alone an audience.

Film Synopsis

Elias can hardly wait to complete his two year suspended sentence in the hospital where he works as a nurse.  He has just a few hours to go and then he will be a free man - but a lot can happen in two hours, as he soon discovers.  It all begins when Rudy, one of his former criminal associates, is admitted to hospital after being injured in a car crash.  The accident happened whilst Rudy was fleeing from the dreaded Ortega brothers, just after he had run off with a haul of diamonds they had just stolen.  Elias is far from pleased to learn that the precious booty is concealed somewhere in the hospital.  With police and criminals crawling all over the premises Elias knows that he has only a short time to recover the stolen jewels before his friend Rudy is found and subjected to a far from pleasant send off...