Medellin

This was so boring. Overplayed topic of drugs in Colombia. Very inaccurate, Medellin is not a short drive away from the beach lol, it's very locked in-land up in the Andes.

Bringing Mike Tyson and Tuco Salamanca as the fail-safe of the movie was more Fail than anything, the second plays a Colombian druglord and can barely speak spanish correctly.

Also, the chase scenes were like okay but felt shorthanded. Looked like they were about to save the movie but ended disappointing. Acting was also terrible, characters were poorly developed and seemed too unrealistic.

Overplayed, overexcited, too bad to watch.

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.

Where to begin ? PATTAYA was not a masterpiece in any way but was funny enough to spend a good time with friends, some beer and potato chips. We can feel that MEDELLIN tries hard to exploit the same vein for Amazon, but it's just a mindless awkward embarrassment. All sounds fake and shallow : bad script, bad dialogues and (very) bad direction. Obviously, Gastambide wanted to hide this with hyper-speed "action" scenes but most of them fall flat, as the jokes. Ramzy plays one of his worst characters, unlikable and falling off the tracks in the action scenes, Gastambide seems to play a bad impersonation of Eric Judor (the usual partner of Ramzy), and Anouar Toubali (very nice personality but not yet a real actor) seems totally undirected and only used as a gizmo. Stupid romance, poor character played by Mike Tyson, full of clichés and one of the worst ending I ever saw in a comedy. Two stars for the dog, the best part of the movie.

I enjoyed it from the very start. Goofy characters which are supposed to be goofy. Its cast and acted perfectly.....everyone delivers their lines with a perfect cross between candor and goofiness. Even mike tyson sounds like he took elocution lessons and listened carefully to the directer about his dialogue delivery. Ciryl gane cameo very nice touch.

Even when i thought i knew what was coming, wat came was funnier.

This film was a real pleasure......... not at one point was i annoyed by the plot or script.

I love the way the film knows wat it was and didnt mess around trying to be something it isnt.

Im someone who thinks fast and furious is absolute sh#te and im a real movie lover and this film is great.

Bad script bad intentions...I mean did they want to make a comedy? An action movie? Both? Non of that...it's a salad of already seen movies, but in the wrong contest...it could have been a light comedy if they didn't went too serious...the end of the movie is more disappointing...completely out of contest...it's like they didn't know how to come out of a surreal story that went too much down. Comedy is not easy, action is not easy...to do both you really need to know your s..t.

Even the color grade is out of contest.

They've missed the opportunity of a comedy-action with a moral for young people.