![]() ![]() Thankfully, Sy and Lafitte are both excellent actors and they do much to elevate the movie, despite their cliched roles. ![]() ![]() Taken as an action movie, this almost works but it’s just a shame that the two lead actors have to spoil things with the nonsense they are forced to spout out whenever they open their mouths. The fistfights pack a punch, the car chase scenes are reliably fast and furious, and the stuntwork is mostly excellent. Director Louis Leterrier, who dazzled us with the Now You See Me movies, is on good form here, with a constantly moving camera that captures every action beat the movie pulls off. Still, while I do think this movie should be called ‘The Letdown’ rather than The Takedown, it’s not all bad. It’s tired stuff and as the plot drags on, you might roll your eyes at the messy attempts at humour and conventional crime scenarios that play out on screen. There is much here that will be familiar to you, from a comic scene in which Ousmane and Francois are forced to share a hotel room together, to a plot that involves drug running and a corrupt politician. But while they have the talent needed to deliver on both the comedy and the action front, the movie lets them down with overly silly dialogue and some fairly predictable twists and turns. The two stars have good chemistry together, which might be why the decision was made to bring them back after their previous film. Omar Sy ( Lupin) stars as Ousmane Diakité, one half of the cop duo and he is joined by Laurent Lafitte ( Elle) as his babbling buddy François Monge. This is a light, frothy affair that prefers to skirt over the dark turns in the plot with wisecracks and silly hijinks from our two police protagonists. This discovery is certainly very grim but don’t expect things to get overly serious. The crime, in this case, is an apparent murder on a train but rather than finding the victim’s dead body they find half of his dismembered corpse instead. It’s the sequel to 2012’s On the Other Side of the Tracks but you don’t necessarily need to have seen that movie to get a handle on this one.Īs befits other movies in this genre, we have a pair of mismatched cops who find themselves working together after a crime is committed. If you’re a fan of such buddy cop movies as Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys, you might be interested in the French comedy-thriller The Takedown, which recently launched on Netflix. This should have been called ‘The Letdown’ ![]()
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