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Director:
Jérôme Salle
Writers:
Philippe Francq (graphic novel)
Julien Rappeneau (writer)
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Release Date:
17 December 2008 (Belgium) more
Plot:
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Largo Winch Review
 (From Twitch. 25 June 2009, 5:01 AM, PDT)

Alexandre Desplat: Cheri
 (From Upcoming Film Scores. 9 September 2008, 2:06 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
A total non-plot Watch and Feel Good Superhero flick more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tomer Sisley ... Largo Winch

Kristin Scott Thomas ... Ann Ferguson

Miki Manojlovic ... Nerio Winch
Mélanie Thierry ... Léa / Naomi
Gilbert Melki ... Freddy
Karel Roden ... Mikhail Korsky
Steven Waddington ... Stephan Marcus
Anne Consigny ... Hannah

Radivoje Bukvic ... Goran
Nicolas Vaude ... Gauthier - the butler
Benedict Wong ... Wiliam Kwan
Gérard Watkins ... Cattaneo

Wolfgang Pissors ... Attinger
Theodore Thomas ... Greenfield (as Ted Thomas)
David Gasman ... Alexander Meyer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
108 min
Country:
France
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Certification:
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | Hong Kong:IIB
Filming Locations:
Bosnia-Herzegovina more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Though in the film, the W Group's headquarters are in Hong Kong, in the comic book they are located in New York. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Naomi (Mélanie Thierry) is talking to Largo (Tomer Sisley) in the car, what she says doesn't match her lips. more
Movie Connections:
Version of "Largo Winch: Legacy (#1.1)" (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Wire To Wire more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A total non-plot Watch and Feel Good Superhero flick, 10 May 2009
5/10
Author: Cihan (Sean) Vercan (Victorydawn) from London, Ontario

Couldn't meet my expectations Largo Winch, a European comic book superhero had caught my attention through its release notes on the movie magazines and its online teasers. I haven't made any research before watching it to keep my curiosity, but when I watched it there was this big slice of the cake was missing: No plot.

The whole movie leans its back against action scenes which are very well worth seeing, at some moments breathtaking and visually drastic. Whereas, there are issues at the technical aspects where cinematography and camera movements lack of quality and proper arraignment. Over the first half of the movie, at the fight scenes and fast paced sequences the camera work was so embarrassing and bothered me a lot. It should have been set up at a better angle. At some of those scenes where the camera movements, location and the angle views are very disturbing that obviously the screen view was like up and down and shaking second by second.

There is one incident happening at the start, that the industry tycoon a Hong-Kong celebrity Mr.Winch was getting killed right at the opening; even while the credits are still showing up. And then there is none... There is one: The son of this industry tycoon who lives separately from his father. Named Largo, never uses his last name in his social occasions, comes to the spot. His action scenes are as rich as a James Bond sequel, the rest is a little Batman-like drama. Whatever means Bruce Wayne for Gotham City is equal in Largo Winch for Hong-Kong. After he takes his deceased father's legacy under his name, he doesn't admit anyone working for him. He takes advises and keeps 8 different financial advisers(one of them are Kristin Scott Thomas) around a round table at his office in a skyscraper, where he goes to his meetings via his personal helicopter and pilot.

Despite all those bubble and guise, money can't buy his freedom; he doesn't admit his fame either. Always knowing what he wants, always taking his own course; he always wins his battles at last. Typically obeying and following all certain rules and clichés of superheros "Largo Winch" never brings out no genuine material:

* He is always right, he never knows nothing wrong. He always makes the right choices; even the choice he made doesn't seem right at first, he finds a new door and gets a second opportunity. * He can go to date and go to bed with any woman in the world, no woman ever can reject him. * His wounds heal very quickly -in just a few seconds, or at least until the next scene-; he never becomes permanently incapacitated nor will he ever die. * He can drive just about any type of vehicle of transportation; he can use every type of tools, machinery and even newly built technological devices; he is very handy and dexterous and is able to fix every mechanic problem. * Either silly or wrong, either rude or slang no matter what he says, no matter what word he spreads out he is always right and has the right of the last saying. No one can ever challenge him to be able to say the last word after him. What have I expected for! What superheroes are for?

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