Nicknamed Tiger. Hard and unsavory life of a special agent. Murders, robberies, raids on a global scale, and even if finally a free minute was given, you will still not be able to relax - from around the corner, some regular general will definitely come out to give another task to save your native France. That’s how it turned out this time – Louis Rapierre did not have time to surrender to the power of his favorite martial arts, as the country again called for exploits. To sign the contract for the purchase of a batch of military equipment, a Turkish minister arrives in Paris, but, as usual, it is immediately revealed that this policy does not suit everyone, so the minister, while he has not yet left his autograph, needs to be quickly killed. The task of Rapier is to prevent such an act of lawlessness, so you have to watch the valuable Turkish carcass around the clock, without departing one step. However, Louis has a nose like a dog, an eye like an eagle, and it is not for nothing that he was nicknamed the Tiger, and not some cat - even performing the functions of a bodyguard, he does not forget about hunting and arranges a mental exercise, calculating all the villains, and a pleasant bonus to this routine work will be the presence in the immediate surroundings of a beautiful girl who is unlikely to resist the charm and charm of a French special agent.
The laws of the genre hint... No, not like that. The laws of the genre suggest... No, not again. The laws of the genre do require it. Require an indispensable evil antagonist of the main character and intrigue to the very end, mandatory chases and fights, loud shots and unexpected attacks from around the corner, spectacular rescues and sudden coincidences, and, of course, blood, at least a drop, and love, at least a little. But from these familiar and understandable components, you can get different cocktails. It all depends on whether there is a trump card in the sleeve of the bartender in the form of a special ingredient that gives the drink a special taste. Claude Chabrol found such, although there is no secret in this – to the bottom of the glass began to rise bubbles of laughter, you just need a generous hand to add an ironic attitude to what is happening. As a result, before the eyes of astonished viewers, a seemingly serious spy thriller turns into a sly parody of it, ridiculing those who have not yet had time to impose in their teeth, but from this no less amusing stamps of the genre. The leader of a gang of scoundrels must necessarily be rich. Well, let's give him a ring with a hefty diamond, which will sparkle defiantly at every insistent display of the hands of this newly minted candidate for master of fate. Every self-respecting boss should have a beautiful mistress on hand? So we will give him a blonde companion for convictions, who literally does not see beyond her nose and manages not to notice anything but a bottle of expensive scotch. Would it be nice for a special agent to have a superweapon inventor on his team? Wonderful, so the frame will periodically appear crazy scientist with inventions of the kind “once a year even a stick shoots”. But do not think that all these ridiculous characters serve only to create the necessary background for the main character - Mr. Rapier is distinguished by the gift of getting into completely stupid situations, and only a natural sense of humor helps him get out of the situation with dignity.
Yes, the filmmakers definitely did not lose, betting not on entertainment, but on humor and eccentricity. With all the obvious convention of what is happening on the screen, the actions of the heroes who understand the failure of the turnout for forty-eight irons, placed on the windowsill in chess order, seem unusually organic and logical, which only increases the degree of comedy of the picture. The sounds of tomatoes, with which the characters generously and deliberately unnaturally award each other, sound like applause for the audacity of the director, who turned the thriller into a frank farce, and the black and white world of the Tiger, who manages to explain to his partners the current situation not even on his fingers, but on ham sandwiches, causes a feeling of slight nostalgia for those days when smugglers hid treasures in plaster, and the presence of high-quality special effects was not an indispensable condition for a good fighter. That's right - a little blood, a little love, a pinch of deliberate pathos and half a glass of absurdity. For decoration - a spectacular kiss against the background of crushed cars. And yes, the most important thing: mix thoroughly, but not shake.