Plot summary
To save his little brother from the hands of dangerous narcos of the Medellín cartel, Reda has a plan that is as simple as it is totally insane: put together a team and raid Colombia. But this adventure is going to get completely out of control when he decides to kidnap the son of the cartel leader to exchange him for his brother's life.
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The recipe is not working
Franck Gastambide applies the same recipe as his three previous films. But with this film, the result is less successful. Perhaps because certain ingredients are missing: the equivalent of Medi Sadoun's character in Les Kaïra (2012) or Malik Bentalha's in Pattaya (2016) or Taxi 5. Here, he is replaced by the character played by Ramzy Bedia, already present in the two aforementioned films. But it doesn't work, because he's not a source of humor.
This is also due to the subject matter, the drug cartels in Colombia. It's a less interesting subject, as it's been dealt with many times before, and much more brilliantly. A poor choice, then. And that's despite some nice ingredients: Mike Tyson as a trainer or the romantic attribute (Essined Aponte).
Otherwise, Franck Gastambide's talents are still there: a character with logorrheic dialogue, a mix of situational comedy and action sequences that are meant to be, and are, breathtaking, and the dwarf (Anouar Toubali) who brings his variations, much less well integrated here than in Les Kaira or Pattaya. In short, the recipe doesn't work here.
I saw it online
Reda (Ramzy Bedia) runs a training facility for boxers. Stan (Franck Gastambide) is like a brother to Reda and works out there. Reda's real brother Brahim (Brahim Bouhlel) is a Vlogger who pretends he is Pablo Escobar, cartel leader. There is a post showing Brahim being kidnapped by the cartel. His brother decides to fly from Paris to Columbia to save his brother. Only Stan and Chafix (Anouar Toubali) agree to go with him. They kidnap the son of a leader for an exchange only to discover PLOT SPOILER Brahim faked the whole thing to get followers. The whole film goes on in a comedy of errors that lack the humor intended, except for maybe the shark scene. At times it was an action film and not a comedy.
Guide: F-word. No sex. Male butt nudity (Anouar Toubali)