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barbudean
3Feb12
Obra-prima. Sem pestanejar, o filme policial mais bem-feito que já vi. Direção sólida e certeira que aposta na tensão, nos poucos diálogos, no monocromatismo dos cenários e figurinos para criar uma atmosfera noir hipnótica. Tudo em perfeita sintonia com a atuação magistral do Alain Delon - frio e meticuloso como muitos Jef Costello que vieram a seguir. Não desgrudei os olhos da tela. Jean-Pierre Melville é um gênio.
Anthony
15Jan12
Inspired by American gangster films and schizophrenia, Melville uses tension instead of action with a character that influenced countless others (The Man With No Name trilogy,The Killer, Point Blank, and Drive) to create a stunning and capturing film that is more visual in it's approach and brilliant in its tone.
DT
2Nov11
Quite a cinematic watershed in how much it must’ve influenced pop culture afterwards, while being influenced itself by a myriad of things before it. It's intellectually stimulating in that way, though that’s not to say it isn’t enjoyable beyond that – it's a very smooth, assured work. But I personally can’t help but find Alphaville of two years earlier to be the much more resonating film all-round of this sort.
neyinpesindesin
1Nov11
" samurayın yalnızlığı ancak balta girmemiş ormanlardaki kaplanın yalnızlığına benzer. "
Thomas Turner
31Oct11
I was very hyped around this film, having heard only good things about it. But when I finally had the time to see it, it seemed like a total waste of time. A lot of big mistakes in the plot and characters, flat acting in Delons character and uninteresting and long shots that have no purpose, neither to the story nor the imagery. Sad to say it but 2/5
WhatsUpWill
5Oct11
Pure film making at its finest. It might as well have been a silent film. Melville uses a slow pace almost like a metronome for his characters' thoughts, actions, and dialogue. The story is simple yet it builds so much tension. Le Samourai is a marvel of a film.
Heikan
3Oct11
It really is exquisite to watch the methodology of a hitman. How weird is the fact that, when you know you are watching the planning of an assassination, you really pay attention to what's going on on the screen? It doesn't matter the slow rhythm of the film; quite the contrary, you become even more hypnotized with it.
Xose Manoel Ramos
15Sep11
En poucas palabras (coma é Delon na película): se cadra non viches Le Samurai, pero seguramente viches Le Samurai
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ramosbarajas
31Aug11
Jean-Pierre Melville and Henri Decaë must have been in love with Delon to give him so many wonderful close-ups. Amazing!
trolley freak
21Jul11
Dressed like Robert Mitchum in a film noir from the 40's, Delon is ice cool as the gun for hire in Melville's minimalist and stylish movie. From the opening scene of him lying on his bed smoking in his sparsely furnished apartment, you sense you're in for something special... Weirdly, in the wake of The Godfather's success, the film was dubbed and re-released in the States under the title The Godson. I kid you not...
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Nelson Silva
4Jul11
This movie was a masterpiece only by their initial and final scenes, but it has an entire course of the mission of the Samurai, and then embrace his destiny. Melville can make the film a reflection of the interior of Costello. Genius.
BrianFromConcentrate
2Apr11
The style of this film is right up my alley. Delon really is "the distilled essence of cinema's solitary guns for hire..."
Graveyard Poet
18Mar11
Melville's masterpiece on solitude, made with the icy and detached cinematography of Henri Decae, capturing a series of gray, rainy day tableaux upon which Alain Delon wanders as the quintessential existential loner--a meditative assassin in love with death. This movie defines the term stylish.
Lucas Granero
25Jan11
El crimen mostrado de forma gélida, la construcción cartográfica de los movimientos. Melville crea el primer policial minimalista, no porque le falten recursos, sino porque sabe que con unos pocos se puede crear mucho.
Rossoneri Ultra
8Dec10
Melville's directing feels assured and makes itself felt throughout the film.
NealEdelstein
24Nov10
The best film ever made? There are a few equal, certainly none better. The interrogation sequence at the police headquarters is one of the most masterfully edited sequences in cinema history. This movie inspires me to do better, the bar is set so high.