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Atomik Circus - Le Retour de James Bataille
The Return of James Battle

France/Germany/UK 2004
produced by
Nicolas Leclercq, Emanuelle Lepers, Claude Letessier (executive), Alfred Hürmer (executive) for MMC Independent, Entropie Films, Invicta Filmworks, TF1
directed by Didier Poiraud, Thierry Poiraud
starring Vanessa Paradis, Jason Flemyng, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Venantino Venantini, Vincent Tavier, Bouli Lanners, Jacky Lambert, Dominique Bettenfeld, Mar Sodupe, Vincent Belorgey, Daniel Cohen
written by Jean-Phillippe Dugand, Marie Garrel Weiss, Didier Poiraud, Thierry Poiraud, Vincent Tavier, music by the Little Rabbits, special effects by Julien Poncet de la Grave

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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James Bataille (Jason Flemyng), who has just been hired to do a few motorbike stunts to promote a bar in the middle of nowhere, falls in love with musician Concia (Vanessa Paradis), incidently the daughter of the bar's owner Bosco (Jean-Pierre Marielle) - much to Bosco's dismay.

When James, during a stunt, accidently crashes the bar of Bosco, Bosco sees that as a fine chance to have him imprisoned on trumped up terrorism charges. But before long, James escapes & comes back to get her, right on the day when Bosco plans to reopen his bar with a talent contest, so trouble seems to be brewing, especially since an impresario, Allan Chiasse (Benoît Poelvoorde) has meanwhile laid his eyes on Concia 6 despereately tries to get into her pants.

But all that is still nothing compared to the aliens who have landed nearby, & they are pretty much out to kill humanity. & as if that still wasn't bad enough, Chiasse has been infected by one of them, before long becomes a horrible monster & kidnaps Concia. The other aliens meanwhile kill pretty much everyone in the talent contest, except for James & Bosco, who have to form an uneasy allliance for Concia's sake ... & soon James is equipped with a rocket pack by Matt Kelso (Venantino Venantini) a guy from another dimension, & goes after Chiasse & Concia, fighting aliens along the way.

Of course, James defeats Chiasse the monster in the end, but before Concia is properly saved, she is sucked up into space & presumably teleported to antoher dimension. & ight when James' rocket pack is out of gas. so he has only one chance, to do his most daring motorbike stunt ever to jump up into space & find the entrance to the other dimension ... whcih he succeeds in. But up there (or wherever else he is), he doesn't find only one Concia but several ... End.

 

A film that tries way too hard to be one of these over-the-top trash movies to really work, forgetting beneath all the intentionally used trash-clichés to tell a stringent story. Accordingly, the film turned out  as just a succession of tired jokes & pulp mainstays peppered with some gore & creature effects, but no story- or character-development - hell there aren't even real characters - or even actually funny scenes.

 

 

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