Flics de choc (1983)

Director:

Jean-Pierre Desagnat

Writers:

Jean Ardy (writer)
Serge Jacquemard (novel)

Release Date:

13 July 1983 (France)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Pierre Banderet	...	Philippe Audray
Marc Chapiteau	...	F.T.N
Pierre Massimi	...	Beauclair
Jean-Luc Moreau	...	Gratien Scorda
Chantal Nobel	...	Wanda Romanoff
Mylène Demongeot	...	La maîtresse
Laetitia Gabrielli	...	Sylvie Cortazzi
Yannick Groell	...	Anne
Nathalie Hayat	...	Caroline
Anne Tihomiroff	...	Marie-Christine
Nadine Alari	...	Véronique Duvilliers
Jacques Balutin	...	Gilet, le chauffeur du camion
Michel Barbey	...	Le flic de la mondaine
Christophe Bourseiller	...	L'informaticien des taxis
Catherine Lachens	...	Barbara, la barmaid du Cormoran

Also Known As:

Shock Cops (International: English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-12

Company:

Les Films de la Tour

It will never be said enough : this is a terrible terrible terrible movie §§§

Ridiculous plot, awful script, laughable costumes, cheap sets, wooden acting, amateur directing, this one has it all !

Visibly aimed at a very lowbrow audience (and hence, an insult to low brow audiences at over the world), this movie relentlessly bores you except at times when you wince at the vulgarity displayed.

Every cliché is there, a mass grave of dead tired ideas, the rest of the movie reaching the height of implausibility.

The "finale" tells it all : the Hit-man ( a walking cliché himself with black motorcycle gear and helmet) tries to kill again, but this time the cops are there so they return fire. A shootout ensues, in some kind of public square. Some bystanders are there and, by God, standing by they do !!! Oblivious of the flying bullets they just watch the scene , standing immobile just as if they were cows looking at a passing train (and having about the same facial expression). Suddenly, one of those bystander, a youth, jump out of this moronic apathy. As he was apparently playing "pétanque" (an outdoors bowling game played with metal bowls) before the shootout, he meticulously aims at the villain's ankles who is running away, and throws a bowl to down the guy !!!! (who is then, FINALLY, shot by one of the cos).

Surely of the most grotesque, absurd and anti-climatic ending for a cop movie ever devised.

The arch-villain of the movie finally brought low by a simple bystander ! Which BTW is not properly a "character" in the movie ! The boy was never seen before never seen after his "exploit" and doesn't even utter a word.

In terms of drama the bad guy might as well have been undone by tripping in a fly of stairs.

Only it would have been more plausible, which was clearly a "no-no" for the makers of this "masterpiece".