Clara is a soldier in the French Army; after a traumatic experience while working as an interpreter in Syria she finds herself assigned to Operation Sentinelle. This means patrolling the streets of Nice. She has become addicted to painkillers and is constantly on edge. One night she goes clubbing with her sister Tania; they separate when Tania goes over to meet some young Russians. The next day Tania is found in a coma, she has been raped. Clara is determined to mind the man responsible and make him pay.

This might not be the most original story but it provides a good level of excitement and some fairly bone crunching action. This action includes several fights, some shooting and some stabbing... it should please action fans. The locations used are all fairly impressive; especially those in Nice. The cast is solid enough; especially Olga Kurylenko who is rarely off screen as Klara. The ending is a bit weak; it was as though they finished making the film and realised it was too short so found a way to add a few more minutes... as it is it is only eighty minutes in length. Overall hardly a must see but fun if you are a fan of the genre.

These comments are based on watching the film in French with English subtitles.

Gently put, Sentinelle is a watered down version of movies like Taken (Liam Neeson) with a little more focus on the broken character of our heroin. The action sequences are okay but compared to the genre standard of vigilante, revenge movies rather mediocre and lack verve, violence, speed, amount. As the rest of the story does not really make up to that lack of action quality, Sentinelle can't really satisfy the audience action nor drama wise. All in all: okay, a movie of TV standard, with a solid game by Olga Kurylenko. Verdict: nothing remarkable, but not that bad like many reviews and ratings indicate, that's at least my opinion.

I wanted to like the film and I expected to. It's a French film, and they usually don't pull their punches, then it's action and French action movies, when well done, are the best, and finally it starred Olga Kurylenko, who is a talented actress, not to mention really good looking. I mean, she's 40 and she looks 27.

Yet the whole movie is following this trained soldier fighting random people in order to get to her target. The entire story of the film is that one sentence. And the fight scenes were good, but far between, and too often they started from a careful and silent exploration of a building and some guy suddenly coming out of nowhere. The rest was boring and didn't make much sense. I do hope in France they don't take PTSD soldiers with an opioid addiction, arm them with Famas and let them roam wherever they want, even when wanted by the police and when they know where she's headed. The characters: all formulaic and most were superfluous. When they were not, they had a lot of extra characteristics not used anywhere. For example Olga's character knows five foreign languages - I expected her to put that to use, but it was just a random fact.

The worst, though, was the ending. In order to make it a bit longer, they had the bad guy escape once, only to be killed a few minutes later, when the target of one hour and twenty minutes was reached.

Bottom line: a failed film that doesn't know what it wants to be.