Bon Cop, Bad Cop *spoilers*

[Conn Seanery]

Man oh man, was I ever looking forward to this movie. It's not every day where you get a comedy Odd Couple/cop type setting that isn't overwhelmingly cheesy. I can't imagine that the film will have wide appeal to anyone outside of Canada (hell, maybe not even within Canada), but as someone who has lived almost his entire life in Quebec this film was a real treat.

For anyone unfamiliar with the film, it involves a murder that is committed right on the Quebec/Ontario border, and the starring pair are forced to investigate as a joint effort between both provinces.

Colm Feore and Patrick Huard are great in their respective roles as the by-the-book Ontario cop and the loose cannon Quebec cop, and it's fun to see them play on any and all sterotypes/misconceptions between the English and French.

I was initially a bit disappointed that the theme of the murder(s) involved hockey (Get it? Canada...hockey, hockey...Canada), but the way they develop the tension mirrored a lot, if not all, of the actual hard feelings and rivalries involving the team histories of the Montreal Canadiens, the Quebec Nordiques (sold to Colorado), and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Granted, it's those feelings taken to the ultimate worst extreme, but it worked for the most part (no matter how you enjoy it, murders orchestrated by someone obsessed with hockey has to make you roll your eyes at least once).

Weird note: Anyone notice how all the murder victims had ass-based names? Grossbut, Flatcheeks (or something-cheeks, not sure if i'm remembering that correctly), etc...

Favorite line in the movie: The French Captain ~ "You're off the suitcase!"

[shades of eternity]

Just saw this movie and it was a riot.

A simply excellent movie.

[berk]

Yeah, I saw it a couple weeks ago and enjoyed it a lot. I hear they're making a sequel.

[estee]

Loved this movie.

It had all the requisite Hollywood buddy movie crap, but a lot of Canadian quirkyness too. I loved how they switched languages so effortlessly. Great job.

Just loved how the plot involved every "Dark day" in Canadian hockey...Quebec being sold to Colorado, where they won the cup the next year...Lindros refusing to play for Quebec and going to Phily...and of course the Great One going to LA.

My favourite part...

When they both got high after that grow-up burned down behind them. Only a Canadian movie would something like that happen.

[berk]

Weird note: Anyone notice how all the murder victims had ass-based names? Grossbut, Flatcheeks (or something-cheeks, not sure if i'm remembering that correctly), etc...[/i]Yeah - and "Buttman" (for Gary Bettman); that was pretty bizarre; I assumed it was partly a way of insulting all the victims, each of whom was supposed to have done some injury to Canadian hockey.

In a lot of ways this was a pretty run-of-the-mill buddy movie and I have to admit that had it been about, say, a guy from NY and a guy from LA, or and AMerican black urban guy and an American white rural guy, oir what ever, I wouldn't have found it that entetaining. But it's such a novelty to see this kind of genre-movie done in a Canadian setting that it was a lot of fun. And I think good for the Canadian movie industry. We need more of this kind of simple entertainment that speaks to Canadian situations and cultural/social/political concerns, because these striaght "entertainment" movies are the only ones that most people watch, and right now we only get them from the States; so the vast majority of English Canadian movei-goers never see a Canadian movie.