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Actors: Colm Feore, Patrick Huard, Rick Mercer, Pierre Lebeau
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bon Cop, Bad Cop |
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David Bouchard is a plainclothes detective in Montreal. Martin Ward is a plainclothes detective in Toronto. When a corpse is found literally straddling the border between English and French Canada, between Ontario and Quebec, both officers are called to the scene and have to work together to solve the murder case.
Although they share the same profession and work on the same case, the two couldn't be less similar. Bouchard is a French-speaking,cigarette-smoking, not-so-law-abiding cop, while Ward is an Anglophone who works strictly according to the letter of the law. The two can communicate - each speaks the other's language, and the film alternates between English and French. But they understand little of the other's culture or environment.
Ward heads first to Montreal, where he and Bouchard learn of a hockey-obsessed murderer of lawyers involved in selling a Canadian hockey franchise to the United States. They discover an abandoned house outside Montreal, presumably the killer's hiding place, where stylized hockey
masks, tattoo equipment (which the killer uses to "brand" his victims) and a dentist's chair are hidden. One of the cops trips an alarm, which sends the house up in flames, and all of their evidence with it. While Bouchard and Ward exit, relatively unharmed, they lose track of this valuable lead. They head to the local tavern to find out more about the house and the killer, and end up in a classic barroom brawl, where each has to fight for the other. Later, Ward goes home with Bouchard, where they share dinner with Bouchard's family and Ward learns more about Bouchard and Montreal family life.
New leads take the cops to Toronto, where it is Bouchard's turn to be immersed in a "foreign" culture. Bouchard stays at Ward's house and has a romantic liaison with Ward's sister. Together, the cops get closer to the criminal, who is ensconced in an abandoned warehouse at the Port of Montreal. The sly killer is able to seriously wound Bouchard and Ward, and tries to escape, but is caught. Bouchard and Ward have successfully bridged the country's two solitudes while saving that quintessentially Canadian sport: hockey.
--Jan Arata, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- bad vigilante getting revenge
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Canadian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- skinny (man)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- impaled
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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