hyped garbage

How sad is this?

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It deals with a tough cop called Hubert : Jean Reno who uses sharp and violent methods on his tasks. He is forced to take a vacation when he hits the governor's son and a drag-queen .The violence prone cop winds up in Tokyo at the funeral of a woman he loved years ago , named Miko . Hubert suspects Miko was victim of a foul play carried out by the Japanese Mafia : Yakuza. Hubert also discovers he's left a screechy punk daughter called Yumi , Ryoko, he didn't know about .Entertaining and fun action movie full of humor , thrills , intrigue , sympathetic roles and attractive dialogue in French and Japanese subtitles .This is one Japanese/French dip you probably wo'nt care to sample ; containing nice scenes , comedy elements , lots of shots , mayhem and bemusement . The movie has an interest as well as charming intrigue behind about a mysterious key and 200 million, in dollars , in the bank and of course the Yakuza get involved. Likeable and catching interpretations by the whole cast .Awesome Jean Reno as a two-fisted police and hard-assed inspector whose sweetheart left him shortly after their engagement without a trace and he returns to Japan . The teen Ryoko Hirosue gives an extremely enjoyable acting as the fiery , eccentric , adorable adolescent . The ugly but diverting Michael Muller plays his old colleague and friend who meets again in Tokyo and both of them undertake several adventures and dangers .And brief performances from Carol Bouquet as an elegant widow and Yoshi Oida as a mobster boss .It packs an atmospheric as well as adequate cinematography by Gerard Sterin . And an evocatve musical score by synthesizer composed by Eric Serra including Japanese sounds .This high-concept , fast-paced movie and being specially entertaining was well produced by the great producer/director Luc Besson and professionally directed by Gerard Krawczyk . Gerard has directed a lot of notorious and successful films such as Taxi series 1, 2, 3, 4 , Fanfan Le Tulipe , Heroines , Red inn, It is our life . He also made some Tv series as Two ordinary heroes and Taxi Brooklyn . Rating : Fine , nice and agreeable flick . The film will appeal to Jean Reno fans . Well worth watching

Jean Reno's expressionless face as he towers over everyone and beats the bad guys senseless (actually, anyone who gets in his way) is well worth the price of admission. My copy arrived with French dialogue and French sub-titles--hence, my comprehension is about 85% - enough to stop me giving away vital plot points.Reno's character, Hubert Fiorentini, is introduced as a tough but effective cop who enters a bar and pounds an apparently pretty young girl in the face--turns out it's a guy in drag. Later, he interrogates the 'guy' by leading with another punch, knocking out a couple of teeth (all in fun, of course). Then, we see him breaking up a bank robbery by 3 'persons' (gender unknown) using similar methods. Somewhere in there, a young teen gets in his face, only to be pounded out and ending up in the hospital. Hubert visits him with hilarious results. This is all reminiscent of Frank Drebin in 'Naked Gun, Smell of Fear' when he announces that the last 4 drug dealers he killed were just guys he ran over with his car -- 'Fortunately, they turned out to be drug dealers'.Hubert then has a beautiful visitor to his apartment, but she only stays for 5 minutes before abruptly departing. I'm not sure why, but Hubert's reaction is hilarious. The audience (and Hubert) were expecting more, I think.Turns out Hubert needs a sabbatical (whilst the French police pick up all the bodies?) and it comes when Hubert must leave France to return to Japan to settle an estate. After beating up an intrusive customs guy, he re-unites with Momo, his old police buddy, to claim a substantial inheritance, meet the daughter he never knew about, and battle the Japanese underworld, who also want their piece of the 'inheritance'.We get the feeling Hubert will come out on top, but the relations between Japan and France may deteriorate back to World War II levels (they were at war, right?) .. Great fun. Witty. Very non-North American.

I'm not sure how to characterize this film. It's not a traditional action/comedy where the characters and plot are somewhat in keeping with reality. This is more a farce, with cartoon-like bad-guys (all the Yakuza baddies where black suits and dark sunglasses) and a ridiculous plot. There's some merit in seeing Jean Reno in lighter fare and there's chemistry between his character and the old colleague he meets up with again in Japan, where Reno has come to bury his long lost love and discovers he has a 19 year-old daughter. But the daughter is one of the most annoying screen characters ever, with her childish antics, ADD-personality, and goofy clothes. Her being such an unlikable character hurts the film. We're supposed to be emotionally involved in Reno's character having to save the girl from the evil Yakuza boss, but we aren't because we could't care less about the girl. Overall this was an odd movie and can't be recommended.

What the hell was Jean Reno thinking getting himself involved with this lame movie. Although after seeing his painful display in The Pink Panther, I doubt that he has any sense of good scripts at all. The story is weak and tugs on sentimental heartstrings that have been plucked out of tune by countless other " daddy finds long-lost daughter" movies. Reno's acting, as usual, is as wooden and lifeless as ever ( although it worked well in Leon) and the character of the wild, crazy, kooky, neo-Tokyo-bubblegum-pop-teenie-bopper daughter is so obvious and clichéd that it brought me to tears, and don't get me started on Momo - what a retard of a character - what a retard of a movie.