SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Jochen Wilhelm I'm German, I live in Paris, with my American wife. So here comes my absolutely neutral critique : Who cares about American or British or French accent. Stiff British wouldn't make it more authentic than sloppy American. Trying to steer the show towards the International is anyway not something to hold against it. Its weak points come rather from a sometimes tepid script, foreseeable dialogs and relations. It's obvious that the producers try to be reeeaaally careful and hold on to a crime series concept that has proved entertaining so often. Unfortunately, maybe too many times. An a bit more daring approach would help the show. But it's not soooo horribly bad. Instead of canceling it, the producers should improve it - the potential is / was there.
HelenMary I was looking forward to some gritty French drama series, starring the incredibly talented Jean Reno. I understand that the series has to appeal internationally (and by that I mean Americans), but it's totally NOT French. Jean Reno is wasted and the plot is interesting in terms of story lines but the police-procedure is so contrived, and whilst it's not entirely predictable, it's full of leaps in investigation.Reno plays it French but everyone else is either American or British and I don't get that. He's investigating random murders (being a homicide cop) but everyone is English! Everyone! Even if they spoke with cheesy French accents it would have made more sense. The producers missed a trick by making it too much like all the other investigative procedurals that are on US and UK TV at present - if the only thing different is that it's set against Parisian architecture, that's not a good enough reason to watch. The script is too staccato because the action is stilted due to the contrived leaps, and even Reno can't raise this show to above 5/10 for me. Tom Austen the sidekick is good, pretty and the flirty cop who gets all the ladies to open up with information - well cast - but I would like to see some reason why he's working in Paris and hear him attempting to speak French occasionally.Only Reno's character St-Clair has a back-story, which makes the program too shallow. St-Clair's struggle with drink and drugs is only touched on, but perhaps it's early days in the series... there's not much story arc. It needs to be more French. I'd love it then. Subtitles aren't such a bad thing!
Dylan 68 I am not really sure where to start with this. Well, actually, I know exactly where to start, at the point where you know it simply will not work. And that point would be the start of the show, the first scene, you really need not go any further.And the start has the cast at the front of Notre Dame in Paris, a body lying on the ground. I good starting few seconds, nice view. At this point the cast then open their mouths. This is pretty much as far as you need to go, as all the actors then start speaking in American accents, with the exception of Jo, who speaks English (or maybe American, who knows these days) in a French accent. I have no idea what the production team was thinking with this, but just let me think about it a little longer............. a little more....... nope, no idea.I don't really want to dull your senses any further with a plot as I just not sure I see the point! Why not 1 star? Well, they cast Jean Reno in it, which was in the right ball park, but just the wrong language. Maybe they should have learnt a lesson by watching him in 22 Bullets, which was very watchable with subtitles.We can read and watch at the same time, and I am sure there are other French actors out there, give them a chance please. Bonne journée.....
David Wilkins We were excited to see Jean Remo cast for this role as we are fans of many of his other works but were sadly disappointed when we sat down to watch. The story was good and the acting carried it but the American accents clashed terribly with the Parisian setting. A major production error considering the lengths they had gone to in their choice of locations and sets. The flawed detective is a staple of the crime/detective genre but the unique element here was lost as Paris dissolved into another another tepid formulaic drama with a plot that lumped between scenes with limited development.Sadly we won't be watching next week.
