Author: Vf DVD

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 01-07-2003

Details: Amazon.ca After the enormous popular success of The Boys trilogy, we might have believed Louis Saïa to be immune to failure. Les Dangereux, however, does not live up to his previous entertainments and seems above all to offer a platform for product placement. Roxane Labelle is a singer with resounding success. Halfway between Céline Dion and Caroline Néron, she arouses everyone's desires, notably those of a group of criminals, who decide quite simply to kidnap her. Her father and manager then charges his accountant to deliver the ransom. In attempting to reconcile humor and suspense, Saïa delivers an action comedy that has above all succeeded in attracting the wrath of critics. And this is quite understandable. For even if Véronique Cloutier doesn't do so badly as a rock star and Stéphane Rousseau manages a few smiles as a bungling accountant, the whole thing seems straight out of a second-rate hit factory where subtlety would be a toxic product. Saïa mixes his dangerous concoction with broad strokes of outrageous clichés, thunderous music, and useless, violent scenes, without caring about the coherence of his work. In the same register, the assembly worked better in Pierre Richard's comedies. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 807581502592

EAN: 0807581502592

Languages: French

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood