An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, since it was directed by  Louis Leterrier and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as check it out. First of all, I only discovered afterwards that this movie was actually a sequel to ‘De l'autre côté du périph’, a rather obscure French comedy obviously starring these 2 actors, but I should definitely check it out whenever I have the opportunity. Well, the opening scene for this sequel with its kinetic and nauseating editing was fairly abysmal and, to be honest, I was rather convinced from the start that the damned thing would be pretty lame. However, even though it was completely unexpected, I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by how much I actually enjoyed it after all. Sure, there were plenty things that still didn’t work though. First of all, like many (all?) Netflix productions, the whole thing looked so cheap, even the action scenes, except for maybe 2 of them, were just underwhelming. And, yet, I actually had a pretty good time but it was probably only thanks to Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte. Indeed, even though the plot was terribly generic and tedious, their characters were actually surprisingly well written. Above all, Sy and Lafitte were just hilarious, their timing and dialogues were very often pretty much pitch-perfect. Coming back on the plot, it was actually not a bad idea to deal with the far-right ideas going strong in such villages in France, a huge threat there but also in all Western Europe nowadays. Unfortunately, it was completely undone by this seriously tedious far-fetched conspiracy. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it still turned out to be a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, at least, if you like the genre. 

6/10