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France, Japan · 2001
Rated R · 1h 34m
Director Gérard Krawczyk
Starring Jean Reno, Ryoko Hirosue, Michel Muller, Carole Bouquet
Genre Drama, Action, Comedy
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Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Culinary purists have observed that much of what passes for the spicy Japanese condiment wasabi at American restaurants is an ersatz concoction of horseradish and green food coloring. The French-language action comedy Wasabi is just as artificial, pumped with horseradish to give it heat in lieu of actual spice.
New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
This nearly perfect confection never takes its action more seriously than its comedy.
Enjoyable action comedy from the Clint Eastwood mold, though the comic elements are more fun than the action.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Like a Hollywood buddy-cop movie gone through a multi-culti blender. It holds up a funhouse mirror to that familiar scenario in which a maverick cop breaks the rules.
Village Voice by Laura Sinagra
The real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star, Jean Reno, who resembles Sly Stallone in a hot sake half-sleep.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Driven by sheer enthusiam (much of it for the worst excesses of Hollywood filmmaking), which makes it fun to watch in spite of its fundamental ridiculousness.
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
The spaniel-eyed Jean Reno ("Ronin") infuses Hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool, wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
At least Reno is around -- and he's the only spice in this stale, slick stew
Offers watchable light entertainment, even though the prospect of the most respected national cinema indulging clunky cop-movie stereotypes is, if not scandalous, then at least disappointing.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
Does its job colorfully and entertainingly, as long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality and the laws of physics.
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