Gerry C

I've always liked French cop / crime films even when I thought British reviewers tended to go over-the-top in considering them as dead arty. This film is a fairly unremarkable example of the unshaven, leather-jacketed cops-little-better-than-the-criminal type flic flick. But it suffers from a confused storyline and an ambiguous and unpersuasive finale. Make that 'very unpersuasive'. A decent end would have bumped this up in my grading but I think I will add a little for the location work to edge it up to 3 stars.

I've really enjoyed both seasons though I struggle a little to keep up. In watching a subtitled series it's just inevitable that things will be lost in translation and that that is all the more true of a very complex and dialogue-heavy drama like this, especially compared to a fantasy or straightforward cop show. The complexity, though, is a large part of what keep one interested and it is not gratuitous, not complex for its own sake, but because such is the complexity of real life and situations. more straightforward cop show compared, say, to a