Toronto. Chrysalis.

Julien Leclercq's Chrysalis is "one of the most striking, distinctive and technical accomplished debut films of recent memory," writes Todd Brown at Twitch.

Leclercq "already has more impressive action chops than many Hollywood veterans," writes Ryan Stewart at Cinematical. "I was impressed with the energy and the action and even wowed by a couple of the individual scenes, but I can't get around the fact that the overall story is more or less a tossed salad of warmed-over sci-fi ideas. I wanted the quality of the story and its ideas to match the high quality of the moviemaking, and on that level, the film disappoints."

"A by-the-numbers cop movie with sci-fi elements, this French policier felt very tired than being the fresh, slick thriller it so wanted to be," writes Mike White.

Posted by dwhudson at October 3, 2007 5:25 AM