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It\u2019s pretty much \u201cMan on Fire<\/em> lite\u201d \u2014 another movie that seems inspired by Philip Nicholson\u2019s 1980 novel Man on Fire<\/em>. AKA <\/em>isn\u2019t an official adaptation of the book, like \u00c9lie Chouraqui\u2019s 1987 French movie version or Tony Scott\u2019s stylized 2004 thriller. But it has a lot in common with them: It\u2019s a dark crime story about a grizzled operative bonding with a child, and the lengths that operative will go when the child is in danger. While it lacks Scott\u2019s directorial flair, AKA <\/em>has something few other movies have: Alban Lenoir.<\/p>\n

Lenoir started his career as a stunt performer, working on a variety of French productions and on Pierre Morel\u2019s 2008 game-changer Taken<\/em>. After a series of small parts, he got his big break in 2015\u2019s French Blood<\/em>, which screened at TIFF and saw Lenoir nominated for a Lumi\u00e8res Award for Most Promising New Actor.<\/p>\n

A few years after that came Lost Bullet<\/em>, a tightly contained vehicular thriller where Lenoir plays Lino, a master mechanic and thief pulled into a scheme by crooked cops and framed for murder. In order to prove his innocence, he has to find the last remaining piece of evidence from the crime \u2014 a single lost bullet.<\/p>\n