Day of Atonement [Le Grand Pardon II] ** (1992, Roger Hanin, Christopher Walken, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon) – Classic Movie Review 9323

Christopher Walken enlivens director Alexandre Arcady’s basic, gory 18 certificate 1992 French Mafia action thriller Day of Atonement [Le Grand Pardon II] as Pasco Meisner. Arcady’s sequel to his 1982 Le Grand Pardon is set in Miami, 10 years later.

Roger Hanin also stars as Raymond Bettoun, who flies to Miami to be with his financier son Roland (Gérard Darmon), whom he discovers is laundering money for drug barons – a crime in the eyes of this traditional Mob family.

Caught between the drug enforcement agent trying to control the battle between drug lords, his son’s greed and his own violent past, Raymond Bettoun steps out of retirement to deliver his own justice.

Also in the cast are Richard Berry as Maurice Bettoun, Jill Clayburgh, Jennifer Beals, Jean-François Stévenin, Raúl Dávila, Alexandre Aja, Jean-Claude de Goros, Robert Escobar, Christian Fellat and Jim Moody.

Alexandre Arcady, runs 127 minutes or 139 minutes (DVD) minutes, is made by Alexandre Films, TF1 Films Production, UGC and Canal +, is released by Guild (UK), is written by Alexandre Arcady, Daniel Saint-Hamont and Marc Angelo, is shot by Willy Kurant, is produced by Alexandre Arcady and Philippe Guez, and is scored by Romano Musumarra and Robert Barriere.

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