A body is found in a Cathedral’s plaza. The head is pointing at some angels high up on the facade. Jean Reno’s character notices this and spouts a line that makes me want to baseball bat the writer: “The killer is sending a message.”
How many fucking times have we heard that line before?
Jean Reno is in this but not in this. I watched only the first five minutes because a) It had a Russian narration dubbed over it and b) What I could hear of the English dialogue was as cliché and as atrocious as that baseball-bat-grabbing line. Reno should have insisted on seeing some finished scripts before agreeing to be trapped in this shit pit. The money just isn’t worth it and he’s giving them nothing for it — just like the script is giving him nothing.
I don’t know when this will air. But it’s no Forbrydelsen or Braquo so just skip it.
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Thanks. I hadn’t heard of this. Is it a French production? You mentioned English and Russian dialog. Is that the dub of the dub?
It is an English-language French production, believe it or not. I have no idea what the Russian was doing over it. I didn’t know Fox had a Russian TV outlet.
Amazing. Maybe that answers the question about the dumb dialogue. Written by French people who think they’ve mastered English.
The writer has won awards and is highly-educated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Balcer
What I saw still sucked and his hands should have been broken for doing it.
Canadian, eh? That article has several mentions of his writing for Law & Order. I never liked that series. I guess just because somebody won an award that doesn’t mean the work is actually something you’ll like. It depends on the judges’ criteria.
I saw one L&O once that was interesting. Otherwise it’s a show I avoid. And Canadian has little to do with anything. Endgame was a Canadian series that was good and The Newsroom (not Sokrin;s shit) was brilliant.
Yes, there are some wonderful Canadian productions. I just meant Canadian for the bilingual thing.
Yes, I see now.