Bastille Day (2016) on Netflix
American pickpocket Michael Mason steals a handbag in Paris on the eve of Bastille Day and drops it in a busy street. It detonates, and CIA agent Sean Briar takes him in.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.4/1055,823 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes48%
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Plot summary
In Paris on the eve of Bastille Day, Michael Mason, an American drifter and pickpocket, steals a woman's handbag without knowing what it holds. He takes the cash and a cell phone from it and leaves the bag in the street, where it detonates and kills four people. Surveillance footage catches him, and the French police mark him as a terrorist suspect. Sean Briar, a CIA agent who has been reprimanded for his conduct on the job, brings him in. Mason insists he is no terrorist and tells Briar that the bag held a phone owned by a woman called Zoé.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bastille Day (2016)
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- StudioCanal delayed the UK release after the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and after the 2016 Nice truck attack it pulled the film from cinemas on 17 July 2016, citing it as a "sign of respect for the victims and their families."
- The project cycled through directors: Pierre Morel signed on in April 2012 and was replaced by Morten Tyldum, who left for The Imitation Game, and Baran bo Odar took over in August 2013 before leaving as well. Ben Affleck had been attached to star but dropped out over a scheduling conflict.
