Sunday, 11 July 2021

VOD: How I Became A Super Hero (Comment Je Suis Devenu Super-Heros) (dir: Douglas Attal, 2021)

"Good or bad news?"
"Both."

This adequate French film is an interesting hybrid of superhero and urban police drama, which pairs a lone-wolf detective in Paris with an female rising star officer, who are charged with cracking a breakout of superpower drug-peddling in shadier sectors of Paris.  The characters are reasonably nuanced with decent performances, and there are sufficient twists to fairly standard storylines to create some interest it does fall back on tried and trusted tropes too ofetn (it comes as little surprise that the mismatched cops hate each other at first but you can guess how it ends up), and whilst the film flags occasionally it passes its time satisfactorily overall.
 

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