LAST BULLET is the third movie in the LOST BULLET (Balle Perdue) trilogy, the excellent French high-speed-car-chase-oriented action movie series produced for Netflix. The first one introduces actor/stuntman Alban Lenoir (“Gunman,” CASH TRUCK) as Lino, an genius mechanic and driver who goes to prison for ramming his car through the side of a jewelry store trying to get his brother out of debt. A cop named Charas (Ramazy Bedia) convinces his boss Moss (Pascale Arbillot) to let him recruit Lino to build cars for an elite “go-fast” task force chasing cross-border drug smugglers, but a corrupt member of the squad name Areski (Nicolas Duvauchelle, TROUBLE EVERY DAY) kills Charas and frames Lino for it. The title refers to the evidence that can clear Lino, which is lodged into the car he gets chased in. (That car makes a cameo appearance here, completely destroyed.)
LOST BULLET 2 is much more complicated, with Moss making an immunity deal with co-conspirator Marco (Sébastien Lalanne), Lino kidnapping him to exchange with Spanish cops, chased by cops including Yuri (Quentin D’Hainaut, “Heavy,” THE KILLER 2024) who work for corrupt chief of Narcotics Resz (Gérard Lanvin, MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1), as well as falling in love with Areski’s ex-wife Stella (Anne Serra) and going to Spanish prison when he takes the fall for his much cooler former colleague/girlfriend Julia (Stéfi Celma) accidentally killing Marco.
I confess I didn’t remember much of this, even after Netflix autoplayed a TV style “previously on” recap of the first two movies, so I went and read the Wikipedia summaries before starting the movie. If you were considering rewatching the first two before this one I’d say it’s a good idea, though I did okay. (read the rest of this shit…)
LOST BULLET 2 is, yes, the sequel to 
LOST BULLET (original title: BALLE PERDUE) is an outstanding 2020 French action movie that’s available on Netflix, and it turns out it’s one of my favorites of last year. It’s a car chase movie and a one-man-on-the-run-trying-to-prove-his-innocence thriller and there’s a little bit of fighting and both the action direction and the storytelling are beautifully clean. It feels raw and grounded, but in a good way, not in that joy-sucking sort of way where realism is more important than entertainment. Man, I loved this one.
