The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		0.5
Overall		3.5

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 26, 2021

Despite the fact that the recent passing of Charlie Watts has alerted people to the fact that members of The Rolling Stones are not in fact immortal, there still may be the perception that they are (or at least were) indescribably attractive to women generally speaking, with Mick Jagger's infamous swagger probably elevating him to the head of that particular pack. In that regard, those who haven't seen it might want to use their favorite internet search engine to uncover a now comically infamous photo that has Mick Jagger on a couch with two other people, where it seems from both body language and just overall contextual sentiment that Jagger is uncharacteristically the "third wheel" of the group. The other two are Marianne Faithfull, who's in the middle, and one Alain Delon, who is on the opposite side of Faithfull from Jagger and who seems to have captured every last bit of Faithfull's attention, while Jagger kind of despondently looks at his (kind of dowdy) shoes, while one imagines the "sad trombone" sound effect plays in the background as accompaniment. If anyone is need of examples of why Delon may have been able to give Jagger a run for his "bad boy" money, the two films Cohen Media Group has aggregated for this release, should suffice, though they also offer evidence of one reason why Delon, like Jagger, has been able to fashion such a long lived career: both of the films on this release were produced by Delon, and on one of them he shares an adaptive co-writing credit, which suggests that, like any "bad boy" worth his salt, Delon wanted control over things.

For reviews of the films on this release, please click on the following links (which will in turn offer links to Svet Atanasov's reviews of the prior French Blu-ray releases, which can provide apt plot summaries as well as a chance to compare screenshots and supplements):

Le Gang Blu-ray review

Three Men to Kill Blu-ray review

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Both films are presented on one disc, with (newly done Cohen specific) trailers for each film available as supplements:

• Le Gang Trailer (HD; 1:31)


• Three Men to Kill Trailer (HD; 1:22)

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Neither of these films is probably going to jump to the head of anyone's Delon-centric list, but they're still nicely enjoyable on their own merits. Technical merits seem largely interchangeable with the previous French releases from Pathe. Recommended.