The Story: a "Colombo" film may be interesting to watch, even while we know what would happen, so not all film have to make you guess about who is what. The story has to unify the different scenes, while not being boring. The story does not have to be 'complex'. Here, the story line is good because it maintains the suspens, all along. Nowhere you can tell in advance what comes next, isn't it?
The scenes are also interesting, and somehow not as what you have necessary seen somewhere else. Yes, a sex scene is, basically, a sex scene, but the one in this film is unique. Finding a dead body is about as boring as it can, in general, but it is required to make the story start. Here, it is not boring, but quite laughable. Adding emotions, or laugh, to otherwise common scene, that is Art, and requires good acting. There is also a good switch between tension and ridicule, all along the film. Sure, the cultural effect is for something, the film is basically bi-lingual, that is also quite out of the ordinary, for a film, and, surely, nicely integrated. Even special effects are... not-american. As example, near the end, the Quebecer flic jump on top of the moving car. In a US film, there would have been 4 different point of view, lot of car changing course to make the unwanted passenger fall, and would have took 30 seconds, minimun. Well, here, it took only 2 sec, max, in a much more realistic, not american super heros, way.
Sure, it has its problem too (as WHEN the flic starts to jump falling toward the top of the car, the camera cleary show the flic is already positionned higher, but 'behind' the car, he could not hit the top roof, not at all) but personnaly, I give more than 7.3.
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McFly_2015
8 years ago
I enjoy movies that are like no other; it deals with the politics between quebec and ontario, spoofs a few hockey figures (Don Cherry and Gary Bettman) and bilingualism.
I get that it's not for everyone but for a bilingual hockey fan from Ontario I enjoyed it immensely and rated it a 9.
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