Synopsis
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
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Cast
- Jean RenoHubert Fiorentini
- Ryoko HirosueYumi Yoshimido
- Michel MullerMaurice 'Momo'
- Carole BouquetSofia
- Yoshi OidaTakanawa 'Zébra'
- Christian Sinniger'Le Squale'
- Alexandre BrikIrène
- Jean-Marc MontaltoOlivier
- Véronique BalmeBetty
- Fabio ZenoniJosy
Recommendations
- 80
New Times (L.A.)
This nearly perfect confection never takes its action more seriously than its comedy. - 75
New York Daily News
Like a Hollywood buddy-cop movie gone through a multi-culti blender. It holds up a funhouse mirror to that familiar scenario in which a maverick cop breaks the rules. - 75
New York Post
The spaniel-eyed Jean Reno ("Ronin") infuses Hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool, wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart. - 70
Chicago Reader
Enjoyable action comedy from the Clint Eastwood mold, though the comic elements are more fun than the action. - 60
The A.V. Club
Offers watchable light entertainment, even though the prospect of the most respected national cinema indulging clunky cop-movie stereotypes is, if not scandalous, then at least disappointing. - 60
Village Voice
The real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star, Jean Reno, who resembles Sly Stallone in a hot sake half-sleep. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Does its job colorfully and entertainingly, as long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality and the laws of physics. - 50
Chicago Tribune
At least Reno is around -- and he's the only spice in this stale, slick stew
