SummaryOusmane Diakité (Omar Sy) and François Monge (Laurent Lafitte) are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a high scale criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy. [... Read More
Directed By:Louis Leterrier
Written By:Stéphane Kazandjian, Pierre Le Coz, Franck Gastambide
The Takedown
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May 9, 2022
71
The Takedown isn’t a radical or revolutionary movie (it is still about good-guy cops), but it’s refreshing relative to its genre contemporaries.
May 6, 2022
58
In a Netflix movie that’s so breezy and enjoyable because of its complete lack of stakes, Leterrier’s approach gets the job done. In the penultimate installment of a gazillion-dollar franchise whose fans have come to expect vehicular mayhem on an interstellar scale, it probably won’t be enough to avert a slow-motion car crash.
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Jul 11, 2022
6
Omar Sy (who is France's most famous new actor) and Laurent Lafitte play 2 cops with different styles who are put together to work on a dual district murder. This is actually a sequel to a 2012 film starring this duo, so there's some history and chemistry there. For a police action drama, the story is surprisingly retro and trite, but the humor still translates. Their conflicting attitudes and continual banter are the core of the comedy. Some of the action scenes are well done, but it's really this combo of actors that makes the film an easy watch. (In French with subtitles or dubbed into English)
May 8, 2022
4
This is the sequel to On the Other Side of the Tracks and it feels so outdated that you would hardly believe there's a decade of separation between the two. Why it exists and why Netflix produced it's unclear, but I'm pretty sure they weren't interested in letting the audience know it's a sequel, that even the title doesn't connect the two movies. I think this film was made to ride the wave of Lupin's success and Omar Sy's presence, since that show is one the most-watched non-English series on Netflix.
May 13, 2022
50
It does not reinvent the wheel, but it engages viewers on a visual and cerebral level. There is a precarious balance between the heavy themes of the script and the upbeat nature of this Bad Boys-esque action film, but somehow it sticks the landing.
May 6, 2022
50
Leterrier manages a few modestly exciting chase scenes, including one that begins in a laser tag course, continues through a bowling alley and a go-kart track, and ends in a crowded supermarket. And his two leads are agreeably amusing and for the most part engaging throughout the film.
May 10, 2022
38
The Takedown works overtime to uphold the façade of heroic policing in the most generic way possible, for god knows what greater good.
May 7, 2022
38
The leads are engaging, but not nearly as much as they and the film they’re in assume they are.
May 6, 2022
12
The Takedown’s supposedly inclusionary, pro-immigrant messaging is constantly undermined by puerile and dated humor.
May 9, 2022
2
It is an ode to social justice warriors, where only the black cop is good, the white cop is totally helpless. Every other white character is either and enemy or useless. The white supreamacist fascist group is the enemy; the white police commander is a bureaucrat who doesn't get her butt out the chair, even the white content producer that was supposed to acompany the great black popular cop is a totally incompetent idiot. Too bad they threw away in the trash can a formula that was sucessful in the past, with the great "Lethal Weapon" movies or the "Showtime" picture. Movies that had a racially mixed pair of cops, made the social critique when needed, and whit a plot that made the minimum sense needed for an action/comedy police film.
Production Company:
- Mandarin Films
Release Date:May 6, 2022
Duration:1 h 59 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:Two Cops. One Case. No Clue.
