Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		0.5
Overall		3.5

Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 26, 2021

Note: This version of this film is available on Blu-ray as part of Cohen Film Collection's The Gang /Three Men to Kill.

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.

As mentioned above, Three Men to Kill has had a prior release on French Blu-ray by Pathe, and for those wanting a plot summary, I refer you to Svet Atanasov's 3 Men to Kill Blu-ray review of that release. Svet's review also provides a good opportunity to compare screenshots and supplements.

Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Three Men to a Kill is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Cohen Film Collection, an imprint of Cohen Media Group, with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.66:1. Based solely on screenshots (I've tried to come close to duplicating some of the screenshots Svet took for his review), these presentations look largely interchangeable, and as with Svet's review of Le Gang, I'd again echo his favorable comments about the overall appearance here. In my typically curmudgeonly way I found this presentation to intermittently offer the slightly bluish quality that is somewhat analogous to the yellowish quality I mentioned with regard to Le Gang, but on the whole the palette pops very appealingly throughout this presentation, especially in some of the outdoor material. Grain resolves without any issues.

Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Three Men to a Kill features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track in the original French, with forced English subtitles. This is a secure sounding track which provides nice support for dialogue and the film's more boisterous action elements. Both sound effects and the score by the great Claude Bolling are presented clearly and cleanly. I noticed no issues whatsoever with regard to dropouts, distortion or other damage.

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)

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

This is another film pretty much perfectly in line with Le Gang, in that many will feel like they've seen this before in one form or the other, and yet really won't care all that much, since it has such star presence and a genial and occasionally rambunctious attitude. This again seems like it's interchangeable with the French Blu-ray release from Pathe, and the only difference is that Pathe's release has more in the supplements department. Otherwise, this release from Cohen comes Recommended.