Le Pont de Cassandra

Unfortunately, this legendary genre film is in the category of films from which the ravages of time have taken a bite. In this case, it was mainly the lengthy introduction and the sometimes rather theatrical actors that took the hit. However, the good aspects in the form of bypassing the familiar archetypes of the main characters, the solidly built tension in the second half, and the grandiose, in a way unexpected, finale, ultimately carry the film almost to the top. (01/11/2008)

I must remember for next time that watching a movie like this with a fever really isn’t a good idea. The Cassandra Crossing can be very convincing. So much so that it is more than just another seventies disaster movie. For a long time it look like it deserves the highest accolade. But there’s always a “but". And Cassandra’s “but" comes after about ninety minutes, when the movie very dumbly transforms into a completely different genre. Then not even the excellent Harris can stop it drowning in B-movie action thriller waters and so The Cassandra Crossing may make a safe claim to being the older sibling of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. But without Steven “wobbly flab" Seagal. What a great shame. (01/07/2008)

A film with a rather dense concentration of strange coincidences that bring together a top doctor and a terminally ill man, the wife of a German armorer, a Holocaust survivor and an undercover cop and a drug dealer, and also a film with a number of inaccuracies and errors (not only geographical), but a film that is so suspenseful that you hardly (!) notice any of the above. What I noticed, however, was the last quarter of the film, which unnecessarily degenerated into a "suspenseful" (as if the plot needed to be more dramatic) action spectacle full of literally stupid shootouts and dying... And the guys from the film could really have spared us that. Three and a half stars also for the music by J. G. (21/08/2012)

Notons que j’ai été envoûté dès la première prise, quand la caméra transperce les nuages et surplombe les pics alpins avant de redescendre vers le centre-ville en survolant le lac genevois, pour terminer sa course au bâtiment de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, là où commence l’histoire. Ça, c’est de l’intro ! Ce qui suit est un thriller politique tendu sur la propagation d’un virus dans un train international, lequel se voit alors dérouter vers le pont maudit de Cassandra. Et ce qu’il advient une fois sur place, je vous laisse le découvrir ! Une distribution sans fautes, une réalisation impeccable et une intrigue haute en suspense. Que demander de plus ? (15/03/2020)