Bastille Day Film Review

Finished watching Bastille Day directed by James Watkins and staring Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Idris Elba, Anatol Yusef and Kelly Reilly. The film opens up with American con artist Michael Mason (Richard Madden) pickpocketing a large group of people. Meanwhile on the other side of Paris a member of a terrorist group gives his girlfriend Zoe (Charlotte Le Bon) a bomb to plant in an office building only for her to change her mind when she sees a group of cleaners coming in to the office. Once outside Zoe thinks about throwing the bomb into the river only for Michael to steal her bag and after he takes Zoe's phone the bomb goes of when Michael puts the bag near a bin. This leads to the French government releasing a photo of Michael as the bomber which gains the attention of the CIA as agent Sean Briar (Idris Elba) is tasked with bringing Michael in only for Sean to go rogue when he decides to go after the terrorist group himself against the wishes of his handler Tom Luddy (Anatol Yusef) though his boss Karen (Kelly Reilly) still helps him a little. Overall this was a good solid action film as it is a very suspenseful film that has a couple of very interesting twists. The action is great as the fight scenes are filled with a great amount of tension along with the rooftop chase scene are very edge of the seat intense. The interactions and character development between Michael and Sean is good as the two slowly form a working relationship that helps to give some backstory to the two characters and what motivates each of them. 7/10.