Medellin: Franck Gastambide's action comedy arrives unencrypted on television [critique]

Ramzy, Franck and Anouar are in Colombia? Be careful, because the new schoolboy comedy turns out to be a real action film, sincere and effective.

Offered in June 2023 on Prime Video, Medellin will be broadcast this evening on W9. First recommends this comedy full of action, good jokes and refreshing sincerity. Here is our review.

Rest assured, Medellin starts like a movie Franck Gastambide. As The Kaïrasas Pattayawe start with a montage sequence with voice-over and punchlines presenting the heroes – three friendly good-for-nothings from the suburbs, including a dwarf – on the eve of a big change: here, going to the rescue of Brahim says “Pablito”a YouTuber fan of Pablo Escobar, kidnapped in Colombia by narcotics shocked by the lack of respect inflicted on their idol. So far, so good. But we gradually realize that we too have fallen into a trap: the trashy and schoolboy comedy gradually changes into a real action film, carried by a certain gravity, until a surprising finale because it is not far from 'be really moving. Surprising, not really, when you think about it for a few seconds.

The Kaïras in five crazy scenes

Since the strange turning point that was Taxi 5 (real comedybut act not great), Gastambide above all became the author of ValidAnd Medellin can be seen as the film which marks the change towards greater maturity, as we would say in class council. The jokes are still there, but it seems that he is trying to leave them behind as quickly as possible to get to the heart of his point. Guns, narcos, Mike Tyson (who wears a good beard) in a cameo… We are basically in the specifications of an Amazon production – something like the latest mutation of the old EuropaCorp standard – but it is not so serious. The heart is there, and it will only surprise the grumpy.

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