How often have you fantasized about torturing a pedophile rapist? The idea that you could personally slowly destroy a perverse sadistic cretin who sexually assaults and kills little girls. We consider ourselves civilized but, as Wes Craven believes, we all have a little darkness within and could tap into that in order to inflict suffering on someone who represents what pure evil truly epitomizes. A surgeon, Bruno Hamel(Claude Legault), a gentle soul, loses his daughter when she is kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a sicko named Lemaire, with a history of attacking female children. Hamel, over a seven day period, tortures the rapist, as the police attempt to find him before he kills the man. Hervé Mercure(Rémy Girard), who is haunted by the murder of his wife, shot dead by a thief in a grocery for 58 bucks, tries to reason with Hamel, hoping to keep him from committing something foolish. Martin Dubrieuil is Anthony Lemaire, the repulsive scumbag who receives his fair share of punishment during the movie such as a smashed kneecap(via sledgehammer), castration(not shown), chain whipping(which opens all kinds of gruesome wounds), and even a grisly surgical procedure which has him defecating from his stomach. The torture itself happens in intervals as Hamel takes time out contemplating about the loss of his beloved child, dealing with intense grief and coming to grips with the rage and sorrow, returning to his victim to release pent up emotions, boozing as to make his job easier to handle. The question we must ask ourselves is, "Is Hamel justified in his activities? Or, is he as worse, if not more so, than the subject of his madness?" I think we can sympathize with Hamel and understand what fuels his revenge, even if we may not be able to condone it. At any rate, director Daniel Grou has a movie which can push buttons and the subject matter provides food for thought..are we willing to go to the lower depths if we have the person responsible for the rape and murder of our own flesh and blood ripe for the pickings? Ultimately, Hamel will prolong Lemaire's life so that he can endure anguish and agony while struggling with the temptation to end him once and for all..the film asks if such torture and murder will remove the pain which plagues Hamel. Probably the most chilling scenes involve Hamel kidnapping the mother of a girl Lemaire killed(she confesses that she has moved on and doesn't agree with Hamel's torturous methods, this raising his ire)and Lemaire talking about Hamel's daughter(how she was the prettiest, crying out for her father to save her). In the instance of the woman Hamel kidnaps, he has her confront the man who took her daughter(he feels she should never forget the person who done such horrific things to her child, closure or no, he should not get off that easy), placing her in the torture room to view his ravaged and chained body lying in a pile on the floor. I have to hand it to Dubrieuil, he spends almost the entire running time naked and abused, even if he portrays the most vile kind of monster, the actor himself has to tolerate a lot, it's a demanding role.