Good cop bad cop

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Movie
German title Good cop bad cop
Original title Bon cop, bad cop
Country of production Canada
original language English , French
Publishing year 2006
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Eric Canuel
script Leila Basen
Alex Epstein
Patrick Huard
Kevin Tierney
production Kevin Tierney
music Michel Corriveau
camera Bruce Chun
cut Jean-François Bergeron
occupation

Good Cop Bad Cop (Bon Cop, Bad Cop) is a Canadian Action comedy by director Eric Canuel from the year 2006 . The main roles are played by Colm Feore and Patrick Huard . It is one of the financially most successful Canadian motion pictures.

action

Martin Ward is an English-speaking Ontario police officer who strictly follows the rules. David Bouchard, on the other hand, is a French-speaking Québec police officer who interprets the law as necessary. These different characters have to work together when a murdered man is found right on the border between Ontario and Quebec - legs in Ontario, torso in Quebec. The body is identified as Benoît Brisset, a hockey manager from Montreal , who was tattooed after his death . After another corpse appears, which was murdered in the same way and which also got a tattoo post mortem, which gives an indication of the next victim, it becomes clear that they have to look for a serial killer.

They investigate in the ice hockey milieu to uncover the series of murders and soon after a bar fight they can arrest their most important witness. However, Bouchard drives the witness in the car to a demonstration of his daughter, as he has promised her this, and leaves the witness alone in the car during the performance.

After the performance, he realizes that the car is being towed away as it was not parked. As they approach the towing service, the car explodes and the witness dies. Thereupon they pay a visit to the witness's family and thus get closer and closer to the perpetrator, who kidnaps Gabrielle, Bouchard's daughter, to exchange her for his last victim.

Detective Ward, after all, uses just as unorthodox methods as his colleague. The two are forced to hand over Harry Buttman, the final victim, after the criminal shoots his helper Luc Therrien and threatens to blow up his hostage. In a bloody fight they manage to bring down the villain, to free Buttman and the girl. The killer wanted to avenge the fact that ice hockey teams from Canada were sold to the USA. In the end, you are assured that you will not do this in the future.

Reviews

Jeremy Knox described the film on filmthreat.com as "entertaining" and as "SPASS" ("FUN").

The lexicon of the international film wrote: "The clever version of the buddy movie takes on common prejudices and clichés with black humor and integrates them into the manageable thriller plot."

Awards

At the 27th Genie Awards in 2007, the film won two Genie Awards for Best Picture and Best Sound and was in the categories

  • Best equipment
  • Best camera
  • Best director
  • Best cut
  • Best movie song
  • Best Actor
  • Best sound editing

nominated. He also won a special Golden Reel Award .

The film received two Prix ​​Jutras in 2007 , the Billet d'Or for highest grossing and for best editing and was nominated in ten other categories.

Background information

The budget was about 8 million CAD . The film was shot in the Canadian cities of Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, Toronto and Vancouver from September 15 to November 3, 2005. The premiere took place on July 4, 2006 in Québec. The film is released in Canada from the age of 13.

In North America, subtitled DVDs and the soundtrack were released. Bon Cop, Bad Cop is the first bilingual film of Canadian cinematic history called ( "first bilingual movie in Canadian cinema history" ). About half of the text is in English and half in French.

Worldwide took Bon Cop US $ 12.665721 million (as at 17 December 2006), making it one of the most financially successful Canadian films of all time. At $ 9.395452 million, the film achieved the highest grossing ever in Québec (as of September 24, 2006), placing it in first place ahead of the romantic love drama Séraphin: un homme et son péché (2002) by director Charles Binamé .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Good Cop Bad Cop . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; accessed on February 5, 2018).
  2. ↑ Critique by Jeremy Knox . www.filmthreat.com. August 2, 2006. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011.
  3. ^ Good Cop Bad Cop. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed July 18, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ www.northernstars.ca . Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ revenue www.boxofficemojo.com