Now or Never (2014) User Reviews

Unusual heist film

[contival · 7/10 · 6 September 2014]

Juliette (Leïla Bekhti ) & Chales Lesage (Arthur Dupont) are this happy couple with 2 kids who is soon to leave Paris and live in the country side where they are building their dream house. Everything is set until Charles losses his job at the bank. The Family looses the house who is repossessed . Juliette who's mind was set on the house decided to rob the bank and pay off what they owe on the house after the fact that she has been rob of her purse while getting out a apartment where she teaches piano. She is given a chance to identify the thief at the police station. Instead she wait for him outside the station and propose him to rob the bank with her. Will they succeeded without getting caught?

An ordinary but touching little film.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 8 September 2014]

First of all, that's not a crime thriller, but a drama. No gunfights nor investigation here. No, only the tale of a Young couple, whom the husband loses his job whilst he and his wife have already begun to pay for a house in the countryside. The two of them with their two kids are then on the edge of the cliff. No alternative to get out the jam. So, one evening, while returning home, the Young wife gets robbed in the street by a Young hoodlum. And just after, she is asked by the cops to testify against him at the police station.

But at the last minute she suddenly refuses to. She has an idea...

Well, all is not totally believable in here, but it is well shown, with convincing performances. And it's also a bit predictable.

It remains a good little french drama. A good time waster.

Rather never (web)

[leplatypus · 1/10 · 10 April 2015]

This is the typical dull, boring and useless french movie. I'm stunned to see that every week in France we have a handful of releases like this and it's such shocking compared to the level french cinema was so far in the 80s. Here, everything stinks : the script is silly, the cast is mediocre, the production is cheap, the yellow cinematography awful ! It's a pity to see Leila doing so poor choices since quite a few movies: here she dresses one more time in rags and her character is rather stupid : in a way, her love is materialistic and means only a house ! Worst, when she has finally it, she cheats ! For those who think France and Paris are beautiful locations, well take a look at those french movies and you will choose another destination !