Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

bigverybadtom The movie starts slowly but picks up later. The title character is an ex-con gambler living in a swank apartment and driving a fancy convertible. Having served time for a bank robbery, he has gone straight, and even shows disdain for a pimp who begs him for help. His life consists of going to various gambling establishments where he sometimes wins fortunes and other times loses them. He picks up a supposedly innocent woman off the streets and sets her up with a friend of his, and after losing too much money in a gambling round, he plots to rob a casino, and even gathers up a team of criminals to help him and gets information from unwilling people.Except things go wrong. The pimp is told by the police to come up with information for them or face prosecution, and a croupier at the casino is blackmailed into helping...and then his wife learns of this. Will all the planning come to naught? A dark film noir, but not overdone in terms of violence or twists and turns. And the ending is a surprise, but not a hokey one.

gavin6942 Bob, a middle-aged gambler and ex-con living in the Montmartre district of Paris, experiences a run of bad luck that leaves him nearly broke. Bob is a gentleman with scruples, well liked in the demi-monde community. He has unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in the past, and has spent time in prison.Vincent Canby, writing in 1981, noted "Melville's affection for American gangster movies may have never been as engagingly and wittily demonstrated as in Bob le Flambeur, which was only the director's fourth film, made before he had access to the bigger budgets and the bigger stars of his later pictures." "Bob le flambeur" influenced the two versions of the American film Ocean's Eleven (1960 and 2001) as well as Paul Thomas Anderson's "Hard Eight", and was remade by Neil Jordan as "The Good Thief" in 2002. What I love about this is how the genre comes full circle. With the western, it had to go to Italy before it come back and be reborn in the United States. Apparently for the gangster film, it had to detour through France.Seemingly, American studios could not be inspired by John Ford or William Wellman until their work was properly recognized by some European counterparts in the 1950s and 1960s. But that is not surprising.

seymourblack-1 Jean-Pierre Melville's entertaining heist movie is rich in atmosphere, style and flawed characters and it's these qualities, together with its moments of dry humour and amusing irony that make it so memorable. It's well documented that Melville was heavily influenced by American gangster movies of the 1940s and some evidence of this can be seen as the eponymous Bob wears a trench coat and fedora and drives a Cadillac convertible. Interestingly, however, Melville's use of location work, hand-held cameras and improvisation that are so effective in this movie, later became regarded as "de rigueur" by the French New Wave directors who followed him.As the story begins, a cable car is seen symbolically making its steep descent to the "hell" of Montmartre and Pigalle which are the districts of Paris that Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) inhabits. He's an ageing gambler and an ex-con who's gone straight for the last twenty years. He's well known by the people who frequent the nightclubs and gambling dens of the area and over the years has also gained their respect and affection.Bob is a fascinating character whose addiction is also his source of income. He's a gentleman who lives by his own code and often readily helps the people around him. Yvonne (Simone Paris) is the proprietor of one of the bars that he frequents and some years ago, he'd put up the money she needed to set up her business.In Yvonne's bar, Bob meets a young prostitute called Anne (Isabelle Corey) who's homeless and he gives her money, provides her with accommodation and gets her a job at a local nightclub to prevent her from falling under the control of Marc (Gerard Buhr) who's a pimp with a reputation for using violence to control his women. Bob sometimes lends money to those who need his help but he draws the line at lending to pimps who he regards as being contemptible.In the past, Bob has served time in prison for his part in a failed bank robbery and the son of his partner on that job, is now his protégé, Paolo (Daniel Cauchy) who admires Bob greatly and tries to be like him. When Paolo meets Anne, he finds her irresistible and they soon become lovers. Bob is also regarded as a friend by Police Inspector Ledru (Guy Decomble) because some years before, he'd saved his life by intervening when a gunman had tried to kill him.When Bob suffers an exceptionally long losing streak and starts to experience financial problems, a solution seems to present itself when his friend Roger (Andre Garet) tells him about the enormous amount of cash that's normally held at the Deauville Casino on the eve of the Grand Prix. Bob convinces himself that if he could pull off a heist on the day when there's normally 800 million francs in the safe, he could overcome his current problems and also achieve long-term financial security. He recruits a group of men including Roger, Paolo and a professional safe-cracker and then takes charge of the planning and rehearsals that follow.On the night of the heist, Bob goes to the casino before the rest of the gang but very soon gets sidetracked when he can't resist getting involved in playing the tables. The way in which his profound addiction to gambling affects what happens to him and the rest of his gang that night leads to the movie's very surprising and highly ironic conclusion.Roger Duchesne is charming and cool as Bob and his extremely strong performance captures beautifully his character's unique mixture of toughness, kindness and melancholia. The contributions of the rest of the cast are also superb."Bob Le Flambeur" has a good plot and an excellent ending but it's the quality of its characters and the atmosphere of their surroundings that ultimately distinguishes it from the more ordinary entries in the heist movie genre.

Jackson Booth-Millard Apparently this film is not very known for cinema goers and stuff, I certainly only heard of it when I saw it listed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, so I had to see if it was one that may deserve more recognition. Basically Robert 'Bob' Montagné (Roger Duchesne) is an old well dressed gangster who has a nice apartment, two-toned convertible coupe and he respects the police, but his big problems is a compulsive love for gambling. On a losing streak he is considering a last job in the Montmartre district of Paris, he overhears that the Deauville Casino holds unimaginable quantities of money and is vulnerable during morning hours. Bob develops the scheme to steal the fortune, and he brings in a safe cracker and a few other underworld characters to help out, and at the same time the middle aged ex-con becomes involved with young Anne (Isabelle Corey), who has no place to live and stays with any man who will have her. Bob's friend and partner in crime Paolo (Daniel Cauchy) trusts the young woman when they spend some time together, he even tells her the robbery plan, and she betrays the gang on the night the heist is planned, unaware it was meant to be secret, and she tells pimp turned informant Marc (Gérard Buhr). Marc was going to tip off Inspector Ledru (Guy Decomble), who Bob saved the life of, about the robbery, but he is killed by Paulo before giving away the big details, and the police officer warns the gangster off the job. The man inside the casino, Jean the croupier (Claude Cerval), has also tipped off the police, and to occupy himself before any heist Bob gambles a winning streak inside the casino. He has ironically got a large enough fortune with his winnings, and when his friends arrive, as well as the police, there is a shoot out, where Paulo is shot, and he is finally arrested. Bob was able to stash his hundreds of chips inside Ledru's car, and he remarks the possibility he will get off lightly and be able to sue the police for damages, while lonely Anne waits for him at his place. Also starring André Garet as Roger, Howard Vernon as McKimmie and Colette Fleury as Suzanne. Duchesne gives a good performance as the gloomy and addictive risky gangster with a good poker face and all the moves, I did not notice many funny moments, but the story that is similar to Ocean's Eleven was quite good entertainment, and the gambling scenes are interesting too, a watchable crime comedy drama. Vey good!