MR 73

Guy’s review...

As a Swede I’m plagued every year by stupid and boring cop dramas/thrillers. Why can’t we just look a little bit to the south and steal at least a couple of ideas from the French? I mean, they have movies like this on and “Crimson Rivers” that are bleak, dirty and deal with some real shit.

This movie is about an alcoholic cop that is still dealing with the death of his child and now-brain-damaged wife. He gets a case with a serial killer that binds and rapes woman. His cop instincts are rekindled and he sets off to find the guy who did it. There’s a side story here about a girl that watched her mother and father get killed when she was a young child. Now her parents' killer is set to be released. The old cop (Schneider) is linked to the young women cause he was the one assigned to the case. Well, she finds him and now he has to deal with that as well.

This movie is very dark and almost too long to bear, but certain scenes keep you in there. I’m a big fan of French cinema and even a low budget movie like this will certainly find an audience. I liked it although I zoned out at some moments. Oh, I almost forgot. There’s a huge cat in this movie, I mean huge.

Guy’s Rating: If you like cop dramas, then you’ll like this.

Girl's blah review...

I liked the movie Seven. That movie was an awesome cop drama, and I compare all cop dramas I see to it. This movie doesn't come close to being on par with the twisted story of Seven.

It seems like, in this film, they used all the cheap tricks of any drama. How do we make the main character at his lowest? We kill his daughter and maim his wife beyond repair, of course, and give him alcohol. How do we make him hit rock bottom? Why, kill his partner because of a choice our hero makes! Duh! And now, how do we make it all better? He kills the bad guy and the cliche bad cop. Finally, as we have been pretty stereotypical up to this point, how do we make this ending one they won't forget? We get the protagonist to kill his bed-ridden wife, kill himself, and then have the side character, who is abstractly connected to him, give birth to a new baby who she names after our dead hero. Perfect! Give these people a ridiculous sum of money to make this film.

Girl's Rating: You could at least try to impress the audience.