Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Canada is a bilingual country, in case you forgot.

IMDB Plot Synopsis When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together.

I suspect few people will have heard of it (and fewer will see it) because it’s a Canadian film; however, it’s been released across the country in major theatres, so there’s really no reason not to see it if you live in a major Canadian city or its suburbs.

Basically, as the title would suggest, it’s a fully bilingual film about a cop from Ontario (the continually aweseome Colm Feore) and a cop from Quebec who are forced to work together in order to solve the serial murders of several key players in the hockey community. And no, the movie totally wasn’t as inane as I’m describing it, it was actually really good and hysterically funny. Of particular amusement was the lengthy explanation of the varying degrees of swearing in French, omg. [TABERNACLE!] Yeah, it plays on a lot of Canadian stereotypes (ones foreign countries might hold about us, as well as the ones we hold about each other) but the film manages to make them serve the plot in some humours way rather than be referenced as empty clichés. They kind of dumb it down on occasion with formulaic car chases and explosions, but it’s not like they’re terribly out of place in the film and I don’t think appealing to the mainstream is exactly a crime in a country where people here the term “Canadian-made film” and run screaming in the opposite direction. Few Canadian films enjoy widespread box office success at home; let’s enjoy this one.

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