Le Cercle Snooze is more like it. Arguably the dullest caper film I’ve ever seen. Makes you recognize how much fun “Topkapi” or the recent “Ocean’s Eleven” is. Hell, even “The Score” is more memorable than this. Melville and Alain Delon made the gamble to play the film distant. That worked in their previous collaboration “Le Samourai,” but here it is a 2 hr 20 min bore. That’s because in “Le Samourai” cool shit happens — here, with the exception of a mediocre fifteen minute heist, a lot of nothing happens. There are driving scenes, and scenes of cops scratching their heads, that are repeated and repeated and repeated. Then the cops, who are agonizing over one case, drop everything and move on to a different (yet unbeknownst to them) related case. And no one has any motivation. When Yves Montand pretends to shed some light on his character five minutes before the end (through the friendship of theives I’ve found sobriety!) it is laughable. Speaking of laughable, Delon in his moustache is a dead ringer for Dave Foley goofing as a private eye in the Kids in the Hall. Can’t fault Melville for this, but it sure took me out of the story. I give a thumbs up to the music, a cool use of zoom lenses and Yves Montand’s striped wallpaper, but the rest of this is a pass. Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman and Jurgen Fauth all liked this movie, but I think it is boring and almost awful.