At least I had a nice trip back to France and even saw a glimpse of the Eiffel tower from my lounge chair in Sydney Down Under! But ALAIN DELON, wasn't he a superstar, lady heart throb...What happened to him here? I just come back from Tokyo and his youth was splattered on some billboards like if it was yesteryear! Please tell me what is so special about this nonsensical story that never gets of the ground and almost literally at the end. Yes that the spoiler that made the big spoil for me. OK there is a few chases and some bang bang - I must be a heartless so and so because i can't understand how some other reviews can be so... pleased with this. Yes to each its own but definitely no for me

A rather atypical role for Alain Delon, in the sense that his character is not a super-confident super-cop or something along those lines, but a regular guy (by Delon standards; after all, he's still a professional poker player with a free-spirited Italian girlfriend who proves yet again that a girl's breast size doesn't really matter as long as she's comfortable with her body) who gets accidentally mixed up with a series of assassinations and becomes a target. He seems to be in over his head for a while, but eventually he takes the offensive. The film itself, however, is pretty typical stuff; the story is thin, and there is one of the most inept assassination attempts ever made by a pair who are supposedly at the top of their field (they try to drown Delon in a sea full of swimmers!). On the plus side, there is a memorably shocking scene involving a door's eyehole, and a typically fine Remy Julienne-supervised Paris car chase. ** out of 4.

Unlike many of his other crime movies that he made during the '70s and '80s,Three Men to Kill is an interesting, suspenseful and thrilling film.Atmospheric and quite violent, it benefits from a quite intelligent script (it is the adaptation of a book) and from Dalila Di Lazzaro's charming youth and freshness.Dalila shows her tits several times during the first part of Three Men to Kill (in bed;at the beach;in the shower)--it's a treat,like any nudity coming from Dalila.Jacques Deray made several films with Delon;this one has to be the best of them.(The Swimming Pool ,Borsalino (1970),Borsalino & Co. (1974) ,Flic Story (1975),The Gang are the others.)It may be concluded that Delon made his bad movies with José Pinheiro and José Giovanni--for that is the worst slapdash of his uneven movie career;and his better thrillers with Jacques Deray.Three Men to Kill is suspenseful,well-paced,paranoiac and it has even some moments of almost Bronsonian violence.So,it's what the delicate persons would call a piece of sleaze!Recommended movie.Delon's role here is atypical, as it doesn't illustrate anymore his famous narcissism ;Gerfaut is violent and virile, but it's not one of the risible superhuman heroes from some of the rubbish that Delon did in the '80s. Also Delon's performance is understated, in a commendable way.When I began reading comments on IMDb, I was expecting to find Delon adulated as a cult—actor; on the contrary, he seems to be more known than respected (on different artistic levels, Brando and De Niro are in the same situation—very famous, but not very respected).If you're looking for something as banal and clumsy and insipid as Delon's bad movies about cops from the '80s, then the suspense in 3 Men … will appear as deftly managed. It's good; the European look is surely adequate.

A better- than- routine French crime flick, with Alain Delon as "the wrong man in the wrong place" getting accidentally mixed up with arms dealers. Typically convincing effort from Delon, nice pessimistic atmosphere and strangely surprising ending make this one a treat for eurocrimi fans.Includes some brief nudity and "unnecessarily" graphic violence for the viewers pleasure, too. Not a masterpiece, but entertaining, nevertheless...Released on video in Finland in the early eighties.