review for Nada on AllMovie

Writer Jean-Patrick Manchette's leftist political thriller Nada receives a detached and darkly comic treatment from director Claude Chabrol. As he portrays the confusion and mayhem surrounding the kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador to France from a high-class Parisian bordello, the director seems to have little respect for both the revolutionaries and the French law enforcement. Apparently disinterested in the film's political agenda, Chabrol still manages to keep his film fast-paced and entertaining. However, the action sequences are handled in a deliberately absurd and grotesque fashion: a cop is hit right between the eyes by an anarchist's slingshot, rabbits are torn to shreds by the police fire during the siege of the farm where the terrorists are hiding. Satirizing both political sides, the film concludes that "Leftist and state-controlled terrorism ... are the two jaws of the same idiot trap."