L'Enquête Corse
2004 Comedy / Thriller
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Summary
Rémi François, alias Jack Palmer, is a private detective based in Paris.
He readily accepts the challenge to find Ange Leoni, last seen on the island of Corsica,
to give him the deeds to a private residence. Unbeknown to Rémi, Leoni is
the leader of a band of notorious Corsican separatists, who is being pursued by the island’s
police. Within minutes of arriving in Corsica, Rémi finds himself in the
midst of a hornets’ nest. Harassed by police, targeted by terrorists, he ends up
falling for the charms of a beautiful woman, who happens to be Leoni’s sister…
Review
A decade after their great success in
Les Visiteurs (1993), Jean Reno and Christian
Clavier are once more reunited in this madcap live action adaptation of a popular comic
book. Having seen these two actors work so well together in an earlier film, it’s
pretty shocking to watch them waste their time and their talents in this clumsy, juvenile
piece of lowbrow farce. Once the entire world’s supply of stock clichés about
Corsicans have been used up in the first thirty minutes or so, the film descends into
what looks like a poor man’s James Bond spoof and quickly loses momentum – the narrative
rambles all over the place and the jokes just seem to dry up. Hard to imagine that
the duo which gave us so many laughs in Les Visiteurs
could fail to inject any decent humour into this stillborn comic disaster.
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