In Paris, thousands upon thousands of people are gathering to watch the game in bars, or on public screens, and Issa and his buddies join the throng. It’s July 15, 2018, and France is playing Croatia in the World Cup final. “Bet you five that Mbappé scores,” he says to a friend, at which point any soccer fans in the audience will know just what’s going on. And the first thing we see is a kid named Issa (Issa Perica) wearing a French tricolor as if it were a cape, with a matching daub of red, white, and blue on his cheek. On the other hand, we do hear the populace singing en masse-in the opening minutes, with the credits still under way. Alas, the new “Les Misérables” really is new, and crushingly Crowe-free, and although a quotation from Victor Hugo is tacked onto the end, the story bears only the faintest relation to his enormous novel. That would certainly be a pleasure one should never spurn the opportunity to watch Russell Crowe singing slightly too high for (a) his manly britches and (b) his peace of mind.
Many moviegoers, noting the arrival of “Les Misérables,” will assume that Tom Hooper’s musical extravaganza of 2012 has been granted a rerelease.
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