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  Review by RasmusS ★★★ 2

  Finally managed to watch one more by Jacques Becker who after only three movies started to look like one of my favorite French directors. Dernier atout is lower in quality, understandably as it is his first, and pretty nonchalant while trying to be sly which puts an annoying gleam on it but also provides a reason to keep watching as the film ramps up in entertainment. We're wrapped in a nice blanket of double crosses, lost briefcases filled with money, beautiful women, car chases, clever partnerships and foolish police captains. In a weird way Becker presents to us a workers revolution type of situation only that the workers are beginner detectives fresh out of school so it kinda cancels out.…

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  Review by Avirup ★★★

  59/100
  
  Jacques Becker's first film. Nothing special but good lighthearted fun with some nice moments.

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  Review by PUNQ ★★½

  Playful French crime flick. Not too remarkable, but it keeps the pacing up and does have it's moments. To me it got stronger the longer it went, as the start didn't completely have me. Toward the end I at least started caring a little.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★

  Jacques Becker first film. A solid light hearted thriller that already shows he can come up with a well thought scene even if the film seems to be little more than a means to put his foot inside the industry.

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  Review by Aref Ahangar ★½

  "برگ برنده" یک فیلم پلیسی سرگرم‌کننده است و یک استارت قابل‌قبول برای یک فیلمساز اصیل با کارنامه‌ای درخشان ...

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  Review by zabby ★★★

  Two rooky cops (Raymond Rouleau and Georges Rollin) are friendly rivals. When they are assigned to a case involving a man (Gaston Modot) murdered in his hotel room, they discover there is more to the case then a fight with his girlfriend (Catherine Cayret). The man who was killed is the current Public Enemy #1 in the US who had absconded with funds. The business partner (Pierre Renoir) and his sister (Mireille Balin) are in town searching for the money. The young cops must deal with gangsters, a little romance, and their own incompetent boss (Noël Roquevert) to solve the case.

  First full feature directing credit for Jacques Becker. The next year he co-wrote and directed Goupi Mains Rouges (1943).…

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  Review by dirtylaundri ★★½

  Light-hearted and fast-moving murder mystery that mostly flew by me without much impression. May need to see this under better circumstances (ideally from a print) some day.

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  Review by Ian_Johnston ★★★

  Becker's first film, a pastiche of the American gangster film (presumably in the absence of the genuine article in French cinemas in 1942) set in some imaginary South American country. Entertaining enough, although not much sign of the greatness to come.

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  Review by Jang ★★★★ 2

  베케르가 몇 년 전에 다른 감독들이랑 찍은 단편 말고도 장편이 하나 있긴 하지만 거의 조감독으로 찍은것이나 다름이 없다고 하니, 이 <마지막 일격>이 베케르의 데뷔작이라고 봐도 무방할 것이다. 이 영화에서 감독의 특징인 현미경으로 인물들을 들여다보는 듯한 묘사가 꽤나 있는데, 그것을 경찰들의 추리에 꽤 사용한다. 증거 물품인 스카프를 모른척하고 흘려 용의자의 변화를 살펴본다던지, 전보의 내용을 가짜로 이야기하여 정보를 얻어낸다던지 하는 방식이다. 이 때 뒤로 감추거나 숨기는 부분에서 클로즈업을 하는데 사실 이 부분들은 지금 생각해보면 클로즈 업 대신 하나의 씬으로 만들 수도 있지 않았나도 싶다. 특히 전보를 클로즈업 해서 읽게 하는 부분 같은 경우는 특히 말이다. 하지만 오히려 이런 부분이 베케르의 연출법 중 하나 아닐까 한다. 오히려 감정을 보이기 위해 인물의 얼굴 보다는 뒤에서 벌어지는 행동을 클로즈업 하는 것 말이다.

  같은 경우로 형사가…

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  Review by jdavis94102 ★★½

  35mm / Film Forum / Jacques Becker Retrospective

  Becker’s first film, a mildly engaging noir, ends up becoming unnecessarily complicated compared to its simplistic ambitions. The film is enhanced by its cast, Rouleau, as the ambitious cadet going undercover to solve a crime and an amusing brusque Pierre Renoir as the animated gang leader.