while its not the masterpiece that le samourai was (i have accepted by now that jean pierre melville was never able to top that classic) and i find le cercle rouge to be much better than bob le flambeur. i felt that bob le flambeur was an above average and influential b film and but still a b film. le cercle rouge proves that as a filmmaker melville improved as he continued. john woo is a massive fan of melville and even though their film making style differs. while woo uses fast motion for shootouts and an operatic sense of violence and melville has a minimalist style that suits him very well. he wasn not interested in creating quickly paced action films but more meditative crime thrillers. in that department and he was one of the best. le samourai is still his best work and mainly because it has more character development than this and but on a technical level theyre probably equal. besides and while le samourai had one great lead performance and this has four. alain delon is once again an ultra cool gangster on the prowl  this man silence is fascinating. bourvil is superb as the police inspector on the case of the heist and escaped con. he steals every scene he is in and and proves that he was a skilled dramatic actor (in france he is best known as a slapstick comedian in the mode of buster keaton). yves montand is great also as the shaky and paranoid gun expert. gian maria volontè (a regular in spaghetti westerns) is overshadowed by his three co stars but still does an adequate job. once again and melville direction is superb. taking equal influence from both american crime thrillers and the french new wave and the man always seems to know the best shots and angles to choose. this is more slowly paced than most caper flicks and but it really pays off by the end. le cercle rouge is a bit short of being an absolute classic and but is still one of the best heist flicks ever made. tarantino must have seen this before making reservoir dogs. ( positive ). 
while its not the masterpiece that le samourai was (i have accepted by now that jean pierre melville was never able to top that classic) and i find le cercle rouge to be much better than bob le flambeur. i felt that bob le flambeur was an above average and influential b film and but still a b film. le cercle rouge proves that as a filmmaker melville improved as he continued. john woo is a massive fan of melville and even though their film making style differs. while woo uses fast motion for shootouts and an operatic sense of violence and melville has a minimalist style that suits him very well. he wasn not interested in creating quickly paced action films but more meditative crime thrillers. in that department and he was one of the best. le samourai is still his best work and mainly because it has more character development than this and but on a technical level theyre probably equal. besides and while le samourai had one great lead performance and this has four. alain delon is once again an ultra cool gangster on the prowl  this man silence is fascinating. bourvil is superb as the police inspector on the case of the heist and escaped con. he steals every scene he is in and and proves that he was a skilled dramatic actor (in france he is best known as a slapstick comedian in the mode of buster keaton). yves montand is great also as the shaky and paranoid gun expert. gian maria volontè (a regular in spaghetti westerns) is overshadowed by his three co stars but still does an adequate job. once again and melville direction is superb. taking equal influence from both american crime thrillers and the french new wave and the man always seems to know the best shots and angles to choose. this is more slowly paced than most caper flicks and but it really pays off by the end. le cercle rouge is a bit short of being an absolute classic and but is still one of the best heist flicks ever made. tarantino must have seen this before making reservoir dogs. ( positive ). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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