Commissaire Moulin (TV Series) Cité interdite (1996) User Reviews

Tremendous episode

[searchanddestroy-1 · 9/10 · 20 February 2018]

I realize only now, more than twenty years after its airing on TF1 garbage channel, that this crime TV show was really amazing, far better than the JULIE LESCAUT or NAVARRO crap, from the same garbage channel. But COMMISSAIRE MOULIN was not BRAQUO either. This episode is rather surprising because it is pure crime for the first seventy minuteT and a pure drama for the rest. Anyway I love this story. A cop is violently beat during a riot. The man who assaulted him - Joe Prestia - is indentified by a petty Hood and get arrested by released just after because the lack of evidence against him. Then he evntually kills the informer. But there is a witness, another petty thug. Prestia first theatens him not to talk but the punk finally denounces him for the crime. Prestia is arrested for the second time. But a friend of him - Alain Figlarz - finds the second informer of the story and kills him too. Then the friend of the deceased goes on rampage to avenge his pal's killing. So, you see, this is a chain of killings and executions. This is rather unusual, no length here, fast moving, poignant, moving on many moments, but maybe a little much moralizer and didactic. And, I repeat, the final minutes are surprising. I love this story.

Tremendous TV crime flick

[searchanddestroy-1 · 9/10 · 20 February 2018]

The more I watch the Moulin series, the more I like it. It is more than twenty years old and I just discover it now. It was produced by TF1 garbage channel and I was afraid to see it, but it is far better than Navarro crap. But maybe not at the same scale of BRAQUO TV series although. Anyway this episode is very poignant and curiously made. It begins by a crime story to finish by a drama, moving tale. A sort of chain of events. A cop is brutally beaten in a street riot and the cops can identify a suspect who is later arrested after being denounced. The hoodlum who denounced the cop molester is killed by the same molester after his discharge. And the witness of the execution is then threatened by the killer before being killed by his friends. Then the victim's best friend is on rampage of the murder of his mate. See, no length here. Some humour touch doesn't jeopardize, spoil the depressing scheme of the whole. A very good story, but not without some didactic sides from time to time.,