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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
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''The Takedown'' (originally titled ''Loin du Périph'') is a 2022 action comedy film directed by Creator/LouisLeterrier and starring Creator/OmarSy and Laurent Lafitte as police officers Ousmane Diakité and François Monge, reunited after ten years for a new investigation in the French Alps. The film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 6, 2022. It is a sequel to the 2012 film ''On the Other Side of the Tracks''.
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''The Takedown'' (originally titled ''Loin du Périph'') is a 2022 French action comedy film directed by Creator/LouisLeterrier and starring Creator/OmarSy and Laurent Lafitte as police officers Ousmane Diakité and François Monge, reunited after ten years for a new investigation in the French Alps. The film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 6, 2022. Creator/LouisLeterrier. It is a the sequel to the 2012 film ''On the Other Side of the Tracks''.
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Police officers Ousmane Diakité (Creator/OmarSy) and François Monge (Laurent Lafitte) reunite after ten years for a new investigation in the French Alps.
It was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 6, 2022.
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Police officers Ousmane Diakité (Creator/OmarSy) and François Monge (Laurent Lafitte) reunite after ten years for a new investigation in the French Alps.
It was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 6, 2022.
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* {{Tagline}}: "Two reliable guys, one investigation, too much possibilities".
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Ousmane often finds himself on the receiving end of this, but rather than being flattered, he's often annoyed or even outraged by it.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Ousmane often finds himself on the receiving end of this, but rather than being flattered, he's often annoyed or even outraged by it.it.
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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Sons of Clovis.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Ousmane is the red to François' blue. Fittingly, François was inspired to become a police officer after watching Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo in ''Film/LeProfessionel'', while Ousmane preferred Creator/EddieMurphy as Axel Foley in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop.''
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* RedOniBlueOni: Ousmane is the red to François' blue. Fittingly, François was inspired to become a police officer after watching Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo in ''Film/LeProfessionel'', ''Film/LeProfessionnel'', while Ousmane preferred Creator/EddieMurphy as Axel Foley in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop.''
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brunner shares many similarities with the far-right French populist Éric Zemmour.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brunner shares many similarities with the far-right controversial French populist political figure Éric Zemmour.Zemmour.
* OffWithHisHead: During the film's climatic scene, one of the Sons of Clovis manages to jump onto Ousmane and François' truck as they're driving out of a warehouse. Before he can shoot them, he gets decapitated as they drive underneath a metal pipe.
* OffWithHisHead: During the film's climatic scene, one of the Sons of Clovis manages to jump onto Ousmane and François' truck as they're driving out of a warehouse. Before he can shoot them, he gets decapitated as they drive underneath a metal pipe.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Ousmane is the red to François' blue. Fittingly, François was inspired to become a police officer after watching Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo in ''Film/LeProfessionel'', while Ousmane preferred Creator/EddieMurphy as Axel Foley in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop.''
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* TrickBomb: To get a couple of Brunner's goons off of their tail, François throws a smoke bomb into their car. They wind up going over a cliff because they can't see anything.
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* MsFanservice: Brunner's wife is seen naked while showering.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brunner shares many similarities with the far-right French populist Éric Zemmour.
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* SourPrudes: For all his bravado and charm, Ousmane is scandalized quite easily. In particular he seems to have a major problem with nudity, as evidenced by his reaction to being in a strip club as well as his horror when François starts taking off his boxers when they're forced to sleep in the same bed. (This may be in part because Creator/OmarSy is, by his own admission, very uncomfortable with sex scenes and has gone no further than a few shirtless appearances onscreen.)
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** This dynamic gets a RoleReversal in the sequel, as Ousmane is now the star officer with a high-level position while François is confined to a desk job (and, because he's a {{Jerkass}}, all of his co-workers hate him).
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** This dynamic gets a RoleReversal reversed in the sequel, as Ousmane is now the star officer with a high-level position while François is confined to a desk job (and, because he's a {{Jerkass}}, all of his co-workers hate him).
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* ViralMarketing: Ousmane's superiors intend to promote him as the face of the French national police, with a social media adviser even storyboarding a television spot that will have him, among other things, parachuting off of a tall building and doing Tai Chi in Luxembourg Gardens. Ousmane thinks it's ridiculous, so at the end of the movie it's François who winds up appearing in the advertisement.
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* ViralMarketing: InUniverse, Ousmane's superiors intend to promote him as the face of the French national police, with a social media adviser even storyboarding a television spot that will have him, among other things, parachuting off of a tall building and doing Tai Chi in Luxembourg Gardens. Ousmane thinks it's ridiculous, so at the end of the movie it's François who winds up appearing in the advertisement.
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** This dynamic gets a RoleReversal in the sequel, as Ousmane is now the star officer with a high-level position while François is confined to a desk job (and, because he's a {{Jerkass}}, all of his co-workers hate him).
* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Ousmane, and his AmbiguouslyBrown co-worker Yasmine in the original film (who gets a cameo in the sequel).
* {{Nepotism}}: In the original film, this is how François expects to be promoted to commissioner.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: François, an arrogant prick with zero self-awareness who is essentially [[FrenchJerk the embodiment of every negative stereotype about French people.]]
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* SceneryPorn: The bulk of the movie takes place in the French Alps.
* StandaloneEpisode: It's a sequel, and although there are a few [[CallBack Call-Backs]] to the original film, it can be easily watched on its own.
* TimeSkip: ''The Takedown'' takes place ten years after the events of ''On the Other Side of the Tracks'', mirroring the ten years separating the two films' releases.
* UrbanSegregation: One of the major themes in ''On the Other Side of the Tracks'', since François polices upper-class central Paris while Ousmane's home turf is the largely non-white suburb Bobigny.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: François, an arrogant prick with zero self-awareness who is essentially [[FrenchJerk the embodiment of every negative stereotype about French people.]]]]
* ViralMarketing: Ousmane's superiors intend to promote him as the face of the French national police, with a social media adviser even storyboarding a television spot that will have him, among other things, parachuting off of a tall building and doing Tai Chi in Luxembourg Gardens. Ousmane thinks it's ridiculous, so at the end of the movie it's François who winds up appearing in the advertisement.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Ousmane often finds himself on the receiving end of this, but rather than being flattered, he's often annoyed or even outraged by it.
* StandaloneEpisode: It's a sequel, and although there are a few [[CallBack Call-Backs]] to the original film, it can be easily watched on its own.
* TimeSkip: ''The Takedown'' takes place ten years after the events of ''On the Other Side of the Tracks'', mirroring the ten years separating the two films' releases.
* UrbanSegregation: One of the major themes in ''On the Other Side of the Tracks'', since François polices upper-class central Paris while Ousmane's home turf is the largely non-white suburb Bobigny.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: François, an arrogant prick with zero self-awareness who is essentially [[FrenchJerk the embodiment of every negative stereotype about French people.
* ViralMarketing: Ousmane's superiors intend to promote him as the face of the French national police, with a social media adviser even storyboarding a television spot that will have him, among other things, parachuting off of a tall building and doing Tai Chi in Luxembourg Gardens. Ousmane thinks it's ridiculous, so at the end of the movie it's François who winds up appearing in the advertisement.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Ousmane often finds himself on the receiving end of this, but rather than being flattered, he's often annoyed or even outraged by it.
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* BigBad: Brunner, the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain xenophobic populist]] running for mayor of the Alpine town that Ousmane and François are sent to.
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* CowboyCop: Ousmane, particularly in the original film, in which he shows little regard for official protocols and successfully blags his way onto François' investigation despite the other officer wanting nothing to do with him.
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* CowboyCop: Ousmane, particularly in the original film, in which he shows little regard for official protocols and successfully blags his way onto François' investigation despite the other officer wanting nothing to do with him.him.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Alice Gauthier, the local detective charged with helping Ousmane and François, turns out to be in cahoots with Brunner.]]
* FinalSolution: Brunner and the Sons of Clovis plan to [[spoiler: blow up the local migrant shelter.]]
* LargeHam: Ousmane.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Sons of Clovis, a far-right ethnonationalist group that wants to [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence rid France of its immigrant population.]]
* NobleBigotWithABadge: François is regularly insensitive towards minorities and women, but he's as appalled as Ousmane by the actions of Brunner and the Sons of Clovis.
* ProfanityPolice: Ousmane is this with his son Yves.
* RomanticFalseLead: Alice for Ousmane, after she turns out to be [[spoiler: in cahoots with Brunner and his men.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Ousmane has no trouble acting like this when he feels he needs to.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: François, an arrogant prick with zero self-awareness who is essentially [[FrenchJerk the embodiment of every negative stereotype about French people.]]
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Alice Gauthier, the local detective charged with helping Ousmane and François, turns out to be in cahoots with Brunner.]]
* FinalSolution: Brunner and the Sons of Clovis plan to [[spoiler: blow up the local migrant shelter.]]
* LargeHam: Ousmane.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Sons of Clovis, a far-right ethnonationalist group that wants to [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence rid France of its immigrant population.]]
* NobleBigotWithABadge: François is regularly insensitive towards minorities and women, but he's as appalled as Ousmane by the actions of Brunner and the Sons of Clovis.
* ProfanityPolice: Ousmane is this with his son Yves.
* RomanticFalseLead: Alice for Ousmane, after she turns out to be [[spoiler: in cahoots with Brunner and his men.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Ousmane has no trouble acting like this when he feels he needs to.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: François, an arrogant prick with zero self-awareness who is essentially [[FrenchJerk the embodiment of every negative stereotype about French people.]]
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* CasanovaWannabe: François. While he does manage to sleep with a fair number of women (particularly in the first film), his obnoxious personality is a huge turn-off for many more, not that he realizes it.
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* CasanovaWannabe: François. While he does manage to sleep with a fair number of women (particularly in the first film), women, his obnoxious personality is a huge turn-off for many more, not that he realizes it.
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* AngryWhiteMan: PlayedForLaughs with François, who complains that it isn't easy being a well-educated white man coming from a comfortable background. PlayedForDrama with the Sons of Clovis.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
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* AngryWhiteMan: PlayedForLaughs with François, who complains that it isn't easy being a well-educated white man coming from with a financially comfortable background. PlayedForDrama with the Sons of Clovis.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to policework.work.
* CasanovaWannabe: François. While he does manage to sleep with a fair number of women (particularly in the first film), his obnoxious personality is a huge turn-off for many more, not that he realizes it.
* ChaseScene: A number of them, most notably one on a winding alpine road which ends with the baddies' car plunging off a cliff, with them inside it, and exploding on impact with the ground.
* TheCityVsTheCountry: The first film deals with the CultureClash between the refined Parisian cop François and the hardscrabble banlieue-based detective Ousmane. ''The Takedown,'' on the other hand, sends them to the provinces, where they are both FishOutOfWater.
* CowboyCop: Ousmane, particularly in the original film, in which he shows little regard for official protocols and successfully blags his way onto François' investigation despite the other officer wanting nothing to do with him.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police
* CasanovaWannabe: François. While he does manage to sleep with a fair number of women (particularly in the first film), his obnoxious personality is a huge turn-off for many more, not that he realizes it.
* ChaseScene: A number of them, most notably one on a winding alpine road which ends with the baddies' car plunging off a cliff, with them inside it, and exploding on impact with the ground.
* TheCityVsTheCountry: The first film deals with the CultureClash between the refined Parisian cop François and the hardscrabble banlieue-based detective Ousmane. ''The Takedown,'' on the other hand, sends them to the provinces, where they are both FishOutOfWater.
* CowboyCop: Ousmane, particularly in the original film, in which he shows little regard for official protocols and successfully blags his way onto François' investigation despite the other officer wanting nothing to do with him.
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''The Takedown'' (originally titled ''Loin du Périph'') is a 2022 action comedy film directed by Creator/LouisLeterrier and starring Creator/OmarSy and Laurent Lafitte as police officers Ousmane Diakité and François Monge, reunited after ten years for a new investigation in the French Alps. The film was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 6, 2022. It is a sequel to the 2012 film ''On the Other Side of the Tracks''.
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* AngryWhiteMan: PlayedForLaughs with François, who complains that it isn't easy being a well-educated white man coming from a comfortable background. PlayedForDrama with the Sons of Clovis.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
!!This film exhibits the following tropes:
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* AngryWhiteMan: PlayedForLaughs with François, who complains that it isn't easy being a well-educated white man coming from a comfortable background. PlayedForDrama with the Sons of Clovis.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ousmane seems to have achieved his current position as national head of criminal investigations due to his being TheAce when it comes to police work.
