SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Perfectly adorable

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Jean Reno's expressionless face as he towers over everyone and beats the bad guys senseless (actually, anyone who gets in his way) is well worth the price of admission. My copy arrived with French dialogue and French sub-titles--hence, my comprehension is about 85% - enough to stop me giving away vital plot points.Reno's character, Hubert Fiorentini, is introduced as a tough but effective cop who enters a bar and pounds an apparently pretty young girl in the face--turns out it's a guy in drag. Later, he interrogates the 'guy' by leading with another punch, knocking out a couple of teeth (all in fun, of course). Then, we see him breaking up a bank robbery by 3 'persons' (gender unknown) using similar methods. Somewhere in there, a young teen gets in his face, only to be pounded out and ending up in the hospital. Hubert visits him with hilarious results. This is all reminiscent of Frank Drebin in 'Naked Gun, Smell of Fear' when he announces that the last 4 drug dealers he killed were just guys he ran over with his car -- 'Fortunately, they turned out to be drug dealers'.Hubert then has a beautiful visitor to his apartment, but she only stays for 5 minutes before abruptly departing. I'm not sure why, but Hubert's reaction is hilarious. The audience (and Hubert) were expecting more, I think.Turns out Hubert needs a sabbatical (whilst the French police pick up all the bodies?) and it comes when Hubert must leave France to return to Japan to settle an estate. After beating up an intrusive customs guy, he re-unites with Momo, his old police buddy, to claim a substantial inheritance, meet the daughter he never knew about, and battle the Japanese underworld, who also want their piece of the 'inheritance'.We get the feeling Hubert will come out on top, but the relations between Japan and France may deteriorate back to World War II levels (they were at war, right?) .. Great fun. Witty. Very non-North American.

Hubert Fiorentini is a Parisian cop with a reputation for violence; after he hospitalises the police chief's son his boss insists that he takes some time off. Not long afterwards he gets a phone call from Japan, where he had previously been assigned. The woman who walked out on him nineteen years previously has died and left him everything. On arriving in Tokyo he learns that he has a daughter, Yumi, who hasn't been told who he is… and given that her mother told her that she was the result of a rape, so that she wouldn't seek him out, he has no immediate intention of telling her. He hasn't been there long when he realises that her mother was actually a victim of foul play. He then learns that Yumi's bank account, which he has control of until her twentieth birthday in two days' time, contains two hundred million US dollars! She took it off the Yakuza and they want it back.Anybody expecting something gritty will soon be disappointed as the opening scene shows just how over the top things are going to be as Hubert punches a suspect who then flies across the room. If however you enjoy things like the 'Taxi' films then this should be just the thing for you. The plot is fairly simple but that is okay as there is no doubt about who the bad guys are; the only real question is how Hubert will get the better of them. Jean Reno does a fine job as Hubert, playing it straight even during the more unlikely moments, Ryôko Hirosue was a lot of fun as 'Genki Girl' Yumi and Michel Muller provided more obvious comedy as Hubert's former colleague Maurice 'Momo'. The Japanese setting is interesting without feeling the need to show off important sights. It is a little surprising how just about everybody Hubert meets in Japan appears to speak perfect French though; given that this isn't meant to be serious that didn't bother me though. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody wanting some good silly fun.These comments are based on watching the film in French with English subtitles.

I'm a big fan of Jean Reno and if you are, get this movie. Its has awesome action and some decent comedy, especially from the character Momo. Just looking at him makes you laugh. Its a French movie by Luc Besson. But its dubbed very well and Jeno Reno uses his own voice. Unlike in Le Femme Nakita where it was dubbed by someone else. Basically, the plot is Reno is a cop in France and finds out his girlfriend in Japan who left him 19yrs ago mysteriously died and he goes to the funeral. Talk about not letting go. And finds out he has a 19yr old daughter. But not to go to into it to much, but there is yakuza, explosions, guns, and great one liners. The first 5 mins draws you into the movie with Reno punching out a woman in a dance club. Then 10mins in, drag queens rob a bank and Reno beats their ass bad. Literally. That alone makes you want to keep watching. Just to see what the hell is going to happen next. I'm a bit bias and I gave it a 10, but Its a great action flick that I watched more times then I can count.

This is an interesting film that abruptly changes pace--something that occasionally pays off well, while other times it doesn't. The film begins with Jean Reno playing a Dirty Harry-type cop in France. His answer to every problem seems to be punching people in the face or shooting them. For some inexplicable reason(!), his bosses aren't particularly happy with his methods and suspend him. Then, completely out of the blue, he finds out what happened to his long-lost Japanese wife--she just recently died and her lawyer has contacted Reno about the will. When he arrives in Japan, in addition to being the executor of the will, he also finds out he's been a father for the 19 years since his wife vanished. Now, with a "kooky" new daughter in tow, they are off on some violent adventures.As for the daughter, she was fine later in the film, but at first she really came off as an obnoxious person and it was hard to see how Reno could resist punching her, as well! Fortunately, this very clichéd bouncy young girl finally began acting believably as the film shifted into overdrive. This shift was when the Yakuza (like the Japanese mob) show up and seem eager to kill Reno and his kooky kid! Throughout all this, Reno is mesmerizing. He's a fine actor and here he carries the entire film. The problem, aside from the distracting girl, is that oddly someone thought it was important to dub this film into English. With Reno, it wasn't so bad--he did his own dubbing since he speaks English so well. But as for most everyone else, they were lousy voice actors--most of the Frenchmen sounded just like Americans. Also, it just made no sense why most of the Japanese people spoke English most of the time. As for me, I always prefer a subtitled film. Still, despite these shortcomings, this is a very good action and father-daughter film--worth your time especially for Reno's seemingly effortless performance.