22 Bullets

22 Bullets (L'Immortel, 2010) is a French crime thriller starring Jean Reno that you can watch online on iFILM. Charly Matteï, an aging Marseille godfather, has walked away from the underworld to raise his two sons in peace. One morning, in an underground car park, his old partners gun him down at point-blank range.

Surgeons pull twenty-two bullets out of him. He lives, and that changes everything. Battered and far from young, Matteï works methodically down the list of the men who ordered the hit, name by name, and at the top of it sits the childhood friend he once trusted completely. The police are circling too: Jean-Pierre Darroussin plays a detective with a years-old score to settle with him.

Richard Berry directed and also appears in the cast, adapting the memoir of real Marseille gangster Charly Matteï. This is slow-burn, noir-tinged revenge with no Hollywood gloss — it rides on Reno's heavy stare and the grit of the southern port. Fans of European crime cinema will find plenty to chew on. Stream 22 Bullets (2010) online on iFILM.