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My New Partner DVD. Also known as "Le Cop".
Originally titled "Les Ripoux" in France.
This DVD is Region Free so plays on all DVD players worldwide.
Features English and Korean subtitles only.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
For a film as fondly remembered in much of the English-speaking world, it's surprising how difficult it's been to find an English subtitled copy of Les Ripoux for the past couple of decades. Also known as Le Cop, My New Partner and Rotten Cops and spawning two sequels, Claude Zidi's slyly anarchic comedy sees Philippe Noiret's infinitely corrupt but much-revered veteran Paris cop finding his various scams - nothing big, more small but often backhanders - threatened when he's teamed up with Thierry L'Hermitte's honest cop from the provinces. Naturally he sets about bankrupting him so he can corrupt him to keep his routine intact, only to find that his incorruptible pupil has far bigger eyes than he has...
It's not a non-stop laugh riot, more a gentle but consistent poke at cop clichés, from the perils of staking out a criminal from a trash can to the best way to beat up a suspect via getting your superior hooked on cocaine by putting it in his nasal inhaler, along the way turning the usual life lessons and on-the-job training that are the staple of the genre upside down. As ever, Noiret's gift for effortless dry humour is the star of the show, though L'Hermitte holds his own even if his character often comes off second best in the writing stakes as well. Didier Kaminka and Zidi's script never overplays its hand by being too outrageous, but it does stumble in the home stretch when morality reers its ugly head - it's not quite crime does not pay, more crime must be paid for, but it doesn't really convince because Noiret's character simply isn't painted into nearly so desperate a situation that he couldn't all too easily talk his way out of it. But it's a small price to pay for such a likeable lesson in petty corruption.
The Korean DVD isn't great quality - a rather soft standards conversion from PAL to NTSC - but it does at least include English subtitles that are mostly satisfactory despite falling prey to typos when dealing with accents. Shame most of the stills on the packaging come from one of the sequels, though (even the slipcase cover is the poster art from the first sequel!).
It's not a non-stop laugh riot, more a gentle but consistent poke at cop clichés, from the perils of staking out a criminal from a trash can to the best way to beat up a suspect via getting your superior hooked on cocaine by putting it in his nasal inhaler, along the way turning the usual life lessons and on-the-job training that are the staple of the genre upside down. As ever, Noiret's gift for effortless dry humour is the star of the show, though L'Hermitte holds his own even if his character often comes off second best in the writing stakes as well. Didier Kaminka and Zidi's script never overplays its hand by being too outrageous, but it does stumble in the home stretch when morality reers its ugly head - it's not quite crime does not pay, more crime must be paid for, but it doesn't really convince because Noiret's character simply isn't painted into nearly so desperate a situation that he couldn't all too easily talk his way out of it. But it's a small price to pay for such a likeable lesson in petty corruption.
The Korean DVD isn't great quality - a rather soft standards conversion from PAL to NTSC - but it does at least include English subtitles that are mostly satisfactory despite falling prey to typos when dealing with accents. Shame most of the stills on the packaging come from one of the sequels, though (even the slipcase cover is the poster art from the first sequel!).
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This is a Korean DVD. It is however in the original French with English and Korean subtitles. Make the most of it-its the only version with English subtitles I have ever seen.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I love the original and have been trying to track it down on DVD for years. Anyone know if this version is in French or - horror of horrors - dubbed into English?
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