The taciturn tough guy Ventura makes an effective contrast with the vivacious Angie Dickinson, who does her best to make her thinly sketched character believable. The biggest treat the film offers is Donald Pleasence showing up as shady go-between – such a shame he was not given a much bigger role in the proceedings. Helped by Claude Bolling‘s mawkish score, the film ends on a toe-curlingly saccharine note, which was presumably intended more for an American audience. L’Homme en colère is a well-paced and absorbing thriller, but its lack of depth and originality ensures that, once seen, it is very quickly forgotten. — James Travers