Vincent Cassel Kicks fucking ass!

Vincent Cassel kicks fucking ass!By Jonny T.

Hello All,
I would like to share with you my thoughts and reasons why i think that Vincent Cassel kicks fucking ass!
Well from the Fantastic La haine to the not so great Black swan it seems to me everything i have seen him in so far he shines like a young De-Niro,From recently watching his performance in Black swan you could tell that the director Darren Aronofsky wanted that quintessential French stereotypical frenchy french man and he totally got that with Vincent,Moody,Angry,mysterious and mean.
It is a Shame that what i have seen him in so far that is from the money machine Hollywood he does get type casted quite a bit,for example in Ocean's 12 and 13(Terrible films)and as i said he landed the same role in Black Swan.

Born in 1966 and Starting his acting career off in TV way back in 1988 it wasn't until he played Vinz in the gritty french urban masterpiece La Haine(1995)that he finally got real recognition for his craft,Going on to be noticed by such great directors as Luc Besson  who cast him in the roll of Gilles de Rais in the underrated Joan of Arc,Then bizarrely after appearing in this he went on to play Gino Bolognese in the British comedy Guesthouse Paradiso,Talk about being stereotyped!!!

The next 3 projects that he did truly propelled him to the top of his game and what great choices they were,firstly came The Crimson Rivers(2000) starring another great french actor Jean Reno,a story of double crossing religious lunatics with Vincent as a detective who teams up with Jean to uncover the mysterious goings on at a monastery,action filled with a ton of twists the is a fantastic film and the scene where he bursts in on some drug dealers whilst they are playing Tekken and then proceeds to have a real long Kung-Fu fight with them all is just brilliant and indeed in this scene he truly does Kick fucking ass!

Next up was The French werewolf film Brotherhood of the wolf(2001)Now a lot of people have said this is a classic,Don't get me wrong its a good film but i must admit it didn't do it for me,Vincent again though does shine as an evil one armed french royal,It just seemed to me that it was all to much style over substance and it did have a predictable plot line but hey that's just me!If you have not seen it though i would recommend you do and form your own opinion,just saying,Nice hair Vincent.

The next film was the animated classic Shrek(2001)He did the voice for the character Monsiuer Hood,you know the dashing Robin hood type chap,Great film and a huge box office smash,He was now amongst the true big guns.

But the great thing about Vincent is that he never just stayed in Hollywood but reverted back to his French roots and some powerhouse movies and indeed performances were to follow,Films such as the ultra violent Irreversible(2002)from visionary Director Gasper Noe which features the most violent use of a fire extinguisher EVER put on film and also a ten minute rape scene,hard film to get through indeed,He then went on to make a couple more French flicks before returning to Hollywood for the 3rd installment of the Ocean's film.
He then made what is for me his best film Satan(Sheitan)(2006)in this he is in true lunatic no holes barred 300mph Vincent Cassel form,A basic story of very strange towns folk with undertones of incest,features threesomes,violence,Dog masturbation(i kid you not)and a birth whilst walking,the great thing about this is that he plays the character Joseph and his wife!!Amazing stuff indeed.I'll stick some photo's below and just look at him as Joseph and his wife, make sure you watch the end credits as well for a bit of Joseph's wife,creepy genius.Also has a brilliant soundtrack So i would fully 100% recommend you track this down and watch it as soon as you can,go on do it now!!!!!!

Vincent as Joseph from Sheitan.

Vincent as Joseph's wife,Sexy!!

So there you have it many reasons why Vincent cassel kicks fucking ass,He has indeed worked on many many more films,including Mesrine parts 1 and 2 and  the Oscar winning Black Swan,so long may Vincent continue on his upward climb and hopefully be recognised as the truly great actor he is,I do look forward when he turns his hand to French cinema and hopefully dives back into the greatness of films such as Irreversible and sheitan,we raise a glass of fine French wine to you sir and light a cigarette in a moody French way and hope we don't lose you to Hollywood,

Vincent Cassel,you do kick fucking ass!

Jonny T.