Contains Spoiler Our hero, Stephane, is a boxer who was cheated of a victory. He becomes a bodyguard on hire and works one time for a French congressman during the convention of neo-gaullist party RPR. The scenes were shot at the actual convention, so we have not very subtle cameos of current leaders from the party, including a speech by then RPR leader Jacques Chirac.
A guy with bad teeth at the boxing hall is jealous of Stephane and his buddy Pierre-Marie. The night of the election, he provokes a fight in front of huge posters of the French congressman. Stephane hurts him in the eye while buddy Pierre-Marie is killed by another guy (whom we never hear again of!). The guy with bad teeth then tries a few hours later to kill Stephane but another fight occurs in a subway tunnel and the bad guy is accidentally killed by a train.
Stephane then flees as he fears to be a suspect of a murder. His only helping hand is a very hair-brushed and clever journalist from a free TV channel (she despises left-wing leaders). She gives him a bed and records a tape of his confession that she broadcasts on her television news even if it's the day following French general elections. Of course, the police makes the connection between Stephane and the journalist and follows her to ask him a few questions about the previous night. When Stephane sees the police, he climbs on the roof, runs in slow motion and jumps from the building. Close-up on the face of the journalist's annoying child wearing an Indian hat who, for some reason, also climbed on the roof. Fade out. Beginning of end credits. Then a song starts, a duet between the singing child (who's neither a good child actor neither a good singer) and a talking Stephane.
This is an awfully bad movie who turns out to be one major source for laughters. Nothing works as planned. The storyline is full of voids and dead-ends. The plot is more or less that a guy is afraid to turn himself to the police and commits suicide. The movie is partisan (co- written by a critic working for French right-wing daily "Le Figaro" whose boss wanted then to buy a private TV channel) and was apparently approved by leaders of the RPR. But you cannot figure any connection between the long infomercial for the party and anything else. Key characters appear and disappear randomly. Stephane steals a gun from a cop but only to put it behind a sofa and take it back just before is final race!The only explanation I can invent for the boring presence of the child is that director Sergio Gobbi knew well his parents, who were maybe financial backers of the movie. The actors are directed without any clear intention. The fights are as clumsy as they can get, while several actors are former boxers... To show the soft side of Stephane, the director shows him petting his Yorkshire dog. It's hard to figure somebody would put so many mistakes and plot holes in so little time.
Actually, it's a laugh fest from beginning to end without any redeeming quality.
A guy with bad teeth at the boxing hall is jealous of Stephane and his buddy Pierre-Marie. The night of the election, he provokes a fight in front of huge posters of the French congressman. Stephane hurts him in the eye while buddy Pierre-Marie is killed by another guy (whom we never hear again of!). The guy with bad teeth then tries a few hours later to kill Stephane but another fight occurs in a subway tunnel and the bad guy is accidentally killed by a train.
Stephane then flees as he fears to be a suspect of a murder. His only helping hand is a very hair-brushed and clever journalist from a free TV channel (she despises left-wing leaders). She gives him a bed and records a tape of his confession that she broadcasts on her television news even if it's the day following French general elections. Of course, the police makes the connection between Stephane and the journalist and follows her to ask him a few questions about the previous night. When Stephane sees the police, he climbs on the roof, runs in slow motion and jumps from the building. Close-up on the face of the journalist's annoying child wearing an Indian hat who, for some reason, also climbed on the roof. Fade out. Beginning of end credits. Then a song starts, a duet between the singing child (who's neither a good child actor neither a good singer) and a talking Stephane.
This is an awfully bad movie who turns out to be one major source for laughters. Nothing works as planned. The storyline is full of voids and dead-ends. The plot is more or less that a guy is afraid to turn himself to the police and commits suicide. The movie is partisan (co- written by a critic working for French right-wing daily "Le Figaro" whose boss wanted then to buy a private TV channel) and was apparently approved by leaders of the RPR. But you cannot figure any connection between the long infomercial for the party and anything else. Key characters appear and disappear randomly. Stephane steals a gun from a cop but only to put it behind a sofa and take it back just before is final race!The only explanation I can invent for the boring presence of the child is that director Sergio Gobbi knew well his parents, who were maybe financial backers of the movie. The actors are directed without any clear intention. The fights are as clumsy as they can get, while several actors are former boxers... To show the soft side of Stephane, the director shows him petting his Yorkshire dog. It's hard to figure somebody would put so many mistakes and plot holes in so little time.
Actually, it's a laugh fest from beginning to end without any redeeming quality.
