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The Great Canadian Action Flick I love my country, but we are not especially known for making good popular cinema. Sure we have our art house directors and our horror master, but we have never been able to break into the mainstream cinema of our neighbours to the South. Until now. This film is everything I have always wanted from the movies that have tried to be crowd-pleasers before (see 'Men With Brooms', 'Timeline'), it mocks our culture while also embracing it. After all, we Canadians are known for our sense of humour. The story follows one Ontario cop (Colm Feore) and one Quebec cop (Patrick Huard) brought together by a murder on the border between the two provinces. Their superiors force them to be partners and hilarity ensures, right? Sure, it all sounds like it has been done before, but this film is uniquely Canadian/Canadien because both partners are bilingual and thus they spend equal amounts of time speaking in English and French. Also, the killer is murdering those members of the hockey community who had a hand in selling a major team to the US. For once the budget works to make this a real action movie full of convincing explosions and great car chase scenes. I am by no means an action fan, but this works so well because neither of the men is trying to be overly macho and when Huard's cop does act full of bravado, he is taken down a peg. Feore is a true Canadian treasure, he is all class and elegance, but he can also get down and dirty. After all, this is the guy who played Trudeau and I buy him as a cop itching for a desk job. Of course each man learns from the other, there is a great sex scene intercut with a fight scene, and the ending has a great classic line. Perhaps the fact that both men are divorced and end up being interested in the main woman in the other man's life is a little too perfect, and the fact that they both have children as single dads, but the beauty of this flick is that it is not trying to be realistic, just like every American buddy cop flick. My main problem with the film is the villain, the Tattoo Killer (Patrice Belanger). Belanger is simply not the same caliber actor as Feore and Huard and thus in their scenes together he seems as though he is acting in a bad student film. I wish they had gone another way in the casting of this role, but it is a small issue in the grand scheme of things. A knock down, drag out smash of a film. No wonder it won so many Genies. email this review to a friend
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