BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

ma-cortes 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

playtoyer this is a great movie.A good mix of comedy and action.This movie has a little of everything to have a great time.The association between those 2 actors is great,the story is very modern and translated in a lot of emotions.The movie talks about the relations between a father and his daughter.jean reno is a great actor every scene with him is a deligh. This movie is perfect to have a good it has a little of everything action comedy emotive moments,they should make more of those movies because they are fun movies.this is a great comedy that everybody can enjoy.jean reno is amazing is such a great actor and in this movie he is very funny.

Enchorde Recap: Hubert is one of the sharpest policemen in the French Police. His methods are effective, but contains a high degree of violence. So, when he made his latest arrest he just happened to knock out four men, besides the suspect. One of these being the son of a parliament member. So even if he is effective, Hubert is not held in very high regard just now. He is made to take two months off, and he goes back to Japan where he worked many years before. There he discovers that he has a unknown daughter who got access to suspiciously lot of money.Comments: Starts off a little weak but grows as it continues. The beginning is actually a little too far-fetched, and a little silly to be honest, to take it seriously. And it doesn't get much more plausible, but it gets a lot more balanced. And sincerely, Reno, does simply rock. A few fight scenes are just spectacular. Not realistic, but very impressive. And accompanied by some fitting and good music too.If you watch this on DVD, make sure you watch it in its original French audio. The English dubbing is one of the worst I have heard and a few moments later unsynchronized seen. It is ridiculous, the movie is much better with original language and subtitles.Watch for the extraordinary choreographed fights, forget most of the other parts… 6/10

kooleshwar There was a time when Luc Besson's name in any place on the movies cover ensured super entertainment off-late besides Bandidas which was brilliant his name ensures movies that are OK or just better..Anyway the lure of his name was to strong and I was in a mood for a little risk and I ended up renting this movie (this is in fact a good risk movie (any avid movie renter would understand).The first thing that strikes you about the movie is the dubbing, in parts it borders on pathetic and those who have seen other french dubbed movies will recognise the pathetic dubbing as hallmarks of many other French movies that have not been released in a big way...But I did see TAXI with similar pathetic if not worse dubbing and that movie was brilliant, this movie is unfortunately not good enough to get over this huge hindrance..........I REALLY FEEL YOU ARE MUCH BETTER OF WATCHING THIS MOVIE IN FRENCH WITH SUBTITLES.The entire cast does a fine job, Jay Reano plays the wooden protagonists with well rehearsed ease, I wonder when we will get to him in a different role, Momo plays the goofy sidekick with hilarious results, and the Japenese Girl plays her stereotypical part effectively.The story is to simple and the Japan angle has been completely wasted, for all practical purposes this movie could have been based anywhere in the world.There was however many one liners that displayed intelligence and understanding of Japenese stereotypes if nothing else.Some of the jokes are hilarious the first holdup scene, the signature Wasabi scene, the interview with the superintendent etc etc.This movie is crammed full of one liners that are hilarious in both the subtitles and the bad dubbing.What i did realise eventually was that this movie was in essence a COMEDY WITH A LITTLE ACTION AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Those who don't get the point (like me for a long time) will be disappointed with this movie, this movie is a comedy and the action reflects this,WATCHING THIS AS A COMEDY MUCH LIKE BANDIDAS WILL ENSURE SUCCESS.This movie has some unclear moments like the daughter modeling, the old flame etc that were neither here nor there.The action like I said is comic and can be compared to any other comedy action like Jackie Chan etc.The soundtrack (i assume) and background score is pretty good especially the Japanese music, one of the only scenes that exploited the Japan angle successfully was the Video game Dancing Scene which succeeded a great deal due to the music.Direction cinematography was Strictly OK and this movie showed nothing out of the ordinary.Fans of Luc will need to realise that this indeed a comedy and less violent then his other films.Im sure betting dubbing and some better action could have made this movie much better even after factoring expectations.IN ALL A SIMPLE NO-NONSENSE COMEDY WITH ACTION, that can be enjoyed if its watched with an open mind.-s PATHETIC DUBBING, japan angle not exploited,so so action +/-s unclear scenes, another stereotypical Jay Reno performance.+s hilarious one liners, many really funny scenes, short and sweettotal 6/10 (absolute and factoring in expectations, if watched as a comedy could score more)