Bon Cop Bad Cop

What I thought would be a comedy started off with a really intense scene of a man in a creepy hockey mask, giving an unconscious dude a tattoo of a fleur-de-lis with scales and then proceeded to kill him with a hockey stick.

We then meet Martin Ward (Colm Feore). He is a Toronto cop with a 15 year old son, who doesn't really like him all that much and Ward has no idea why. I have an idea, maybe you should stop ironing your pants in the kitchen when you are only wearing boxers. Anyway, we then move to Montreal, where we meet David Bouchard (Patrick Huard), also a cop. He is at home with his ex-wife and his daughter, Gabrielle (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse). He then has to go, and is reminded not to be late for his daughter's ballet recital.

Both the cops meet at the border between Ontario and Quebec where the body of the victim was found. After an initial fight, they are forced together by their superiors until they determine who the victim is and if the murderer is a Quebecer or from Ontario.

They discover, from a hilarious scene with the French coroner Jeff (Louis-José Houde), that the man was dropped from a helicopter and from there they discover their first suspect, Luc Therrien (Sylvain Marcel) who went for an unscheduled flight in a helicopter.  They find him and stuff him in the trunk of Bouchard's car and then run...to the ballet. Where there is another hilarious scene where Bouchard knows all the steps in his daughter's routine. Upon leaving the ballet, they are in... John Abbott College! That is so cool! I went there! Maybe that's why they blocked off the entire front and side entrances that day. Anyway Bouchard's car then explodes with the suspect still inside the trunk. Oops. Then they break into Therrien's house and find another dead body with a tattoo and a basement full of Mary-Jane. Then the house goes up in flames and they both get high. There is yet another hilarious scene with them trying to explain what happened to the bosses while high.

Since everything seems to be happening in Quebec Ward leaves but , in Toronto awhile later they discover a dead woman with a skate in her head, and another tattoo, so they are thrown together once again, this time in Toronto. Ward gets attacked at home, and they discover that Therrien isn't really dead. But he had to have help, trust me when I say he had to have help, because we see him trying to get into a mascot suit and pulling a gun on the mirror while in said costume. He obviously isn't the brains of the operation. Bouchard calls home and discovers that Gabrielle has been kidnapped. The Tattoo Killer (Patrice Bélanger) has kidnapped Bouchard's daughter and will only return her when he has saved the game of hockey, because all the people he's killed have, in his eyes ruined the great Canadian game.  Um... sure.

So they run back to Montreal to stop the bad guy and rescue his daughter and all is right with the world and, of course with hockey.

I LOVED this movie. There are only two slight problems. The first one being I didn't understand the plot. I don't think all the victims and their individual tattoos added up. It was like the writers confused themselves and then forgot to correct it before the movie was made. I don't know weather it was Therrien or TK that killed half of them. All I know is that one of them ruined Therrien's hockey career and that's why he wanted revenge so TK used that so that he would become his lackey. Other than that I have no idea what's going on. So all you have to do is ignore the plot and let the excellent acting, awesome characters and excellent script win you over.

The second problem is that if you aren't a Quebecer you won't understand anything that goes on between Ward and Bouchard. The thing is, people from Toronto and people from Montreal don't get along all that well. If you didn't get that from this movie, then holes in the plot might not be your only problem.

Grade: 8/10