With his characteristic (and brilliant) visual style, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie), introduces us to Bazil, a man with a bullet in his brain. Doctors cannot operate for fear it would leave him a vegetable, yet leaving it in leaves him vulnerable to death at any minute. He seeks revenge, aided by a group of quirky misfits, on the leaders of two weapons manufacturers—the one who produced the bullet in his head and the one whose land mine killed his father. The film is a caper of the elaborate scheme of the group to set up the rival arms manufacturers. While the TIFF audience seemed to enjoy the film a lot (and it was second runner-up in the People's Choice Award voting), I couldn’t really get behind Bazil as I could with, say, Jeunet's Amelie (a number of actors from Amelie appear in Micmacs), and the whole caper just seemed so destined to work out, one could never feel suspense or risk to the life of the protagonists. Looked good, but didn't involve me as a viewer. Side note: during the Q&A Jeunet said that he was supposed to direct a movie version of Life of Pi, but that production is now off. Although I was not crazy about this film, I would certainly go see something else by him. His style is just marvelous. (6.5/10)
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