Alain Delon himself co-writes and directs the popular 1981 French crime-thriller For a Cop’s Hide [Pour La Peau d’un Flic], which goes well for while, with plenty of intrigue, but starts to unravel way before the end (…). The movie provides a complex conundrum in the Hitchcock vein, though its handling is lacking in the master’s clever and delicate touch.
Derek Winnert