Paris Has Fallen, an Original Creation 100% pure action

Missing Gerard Butler’s saga? Good news: for the first time, it’s coming to a series with Paris Has Fallen, a powerful thriller that should keep us on the edge of our seats all fall.

After Washington in The Fall of the White Housee (Antoine Fuqua, 2013) and The Fall of London (Babak Najafi, 2016), heading to our dear capital for the emblematic saga of the 2010s with Gerard Butler.

This time, the Scottish actor did not make the trip, but he was advantageously replaced by Tewfik Jallab (Gears) who plays Vincent, the highly trained bodyguard of the Minister of Defense, who must first face a large-scale terrorist attack at the British Embassy, ​​in the (Dantesque) opening scene of Paris Has Fallen. This attack is led by a completely terrifying big bad guy played by a specialist of the genre: Sean Harris (Mission impossible).

This terrorist seeking revenge and thirsting for blood will try to bring Paris to its knees, and a crazy chase begins between this former agent of the French Foreign Legion and a duo led by Vincent and Zara, a slightly crazy MI6 agent who hides her very particular job from her girlfriend (Camille Rutherford from Platonic And Versailles).

Zara is played by British actress Ritu Arya (Lila in Umbrella Academy !), which is the best weapon of Paris Has Fallen and provides an essential counterpoint to his colleague, a sort of French Jack Bauer who also has a little problem: he had an affair with the president, played by none other than Emmanuelle Bercot, whose very first role this is on television.

And since we were talking about 24 Hours Chrono (Disney+) and Mission impossible (Paramount+), fans of these sagas (like James Bond) will probably be filled by Paris Has Fallenwhich brings together all the ingredients of these action thrillers: insane twists, plots at the highest level, unbridled violence and bombardments in all directions, with superhuman agents who almost never miss the target.

In short, it is pure American entertainment, except that all of this was produced in France with the necessary means, and of course we let ourselves be caught up in this massacre game while trying to guess all the twists and turns imagined by Howard Overman, the father of the excellent series. War of the Worlds (CANAL+), while the production entrusted in particular to Oded Ruskin (False Flag, No Man’s Land, The Drops of God) has nothing to envy the film trilogy either. The Fall.

So fasten your seatbelts, the journey through the streets of Paris is going to be eventful.

Paris Has Fallen episodes 1 to 8, broadcast from September 23 on CANAL+.