Louis Carrier gets a large payout from his brother's life insurance. He quits his workman job and promises to do something memorable. He is about to shoot the Prime Minister, but somehow he ends up greeting him with a handshake. He goes down the rabbit hole. With his idiot sidekick Einstein and the nom de guerre Armaguedon, he starts causing chaos with his random acts of terror and brutal murders. Dr. Michel Ambrose (Alain Delon) helps the police by profiling the unknown suspect.
This is an odd surreal crime drama. I would call it a thriller if it's actually thrilling. It's not and that's not the point. It's a study in nihilism. Quite frankly, it may not have made sense back in the day. This is a guy looking for infamy, looking for the clicks. He's every insel who shoots up a school to make himself a name. He's that guy who shot up a concert in Las Vegas a few years ago. He's not doing it for an actual cause. His cause is nothing but a word salad. It's infamy that he's looking for.
This is an odd surreal crime drama. I would call it a thriller if it's actually thrilling. It's not and that's not the point. It's a study in nihilism. Quite frankly, it may not have made sense back in the day. This is a guy looking for infamy, looking for the clicks. He's every insel who shoots up a school to make himself a name. He's that guy who shot up a concert in Las Vegas a few years ago. He's not doing it for an actual cause. His cause is nothing but a word salad. It's infamy that he's looking for.