GALLIC SCARFACE!

This is a life: Jacques Mesrine was born just outside Paris in 1936. As a young lad he attended a strict Catholic school but was expelled for violent behaviour. He got married at 19, but joined the French Army and left to serve in the Algerian War. In the early 60s he left the army, and his first arrest - for armed robbery - came in 1962. After a short prison spell he briefly went straight, working for a firm of architects, before returning to crime.

He spent the next ten years bouncing around Europe and north America, was arrested for kidnapping in Canada and sentenced to ten years, escaped, robbed banks in Montreal (often two in a day), and then he started to get really serious. I won't spoil the film by detailing his real-life exploits any further, safe to say south America was not left untouched. The film version of this incredible life is slick, violent and sexy. It's why we all secretly want to be gangsters. Well, I do. It's a GANGSTER CLASSIC. Go and see it. Mesrine: Public Instinct and the follow-up, Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 are out at the beginning of August.

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct is in cinemas from 7 August, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One is out from 28 August