France: Halal Five-O

France: Halal Five-O



Via Hollywood Reporter:
Traveling from Algeria to Paris to investigate the murder of one of their diplomats, the flamboyant Inspector Nerh-Nerh (Bedia) and his paranoid sidekick, Le Kabyle (Judor), find themselves competing against a tough commissaire (Jean-Pierre Lazzerini) and two cocksure detectives (Lannick Gautry, Frederic Chau) in a race to catch the killer. With suspects ranging from a band of Neo-Nazis to an old Chinese man who sells spring rolls under his overcoat, the knuckleheads will do anything to solve the case, including mistakenly waterboarding a key witness or concocting an ancient potion that backfires (in a scene clearly ripped off from Blake Edwards’ The Party).

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By bombarding the viewer with endless jokes about foreigners (mostly from North Africa, although Asians are targeted as well), the filmmakers try, in their own absurd way, to the reveal the universal goofiness linking all French and non-Frenchmen together. Yet such a message, however earnest, winds up getting lost in a story whose disparate ingredients have been tossed into a pot and then stirred until they nearly lose their flavor.

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