Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
The Takedown is a formulaic buddy-cop comedy that leans heavily on the mismatched partners dynamic without adding much new to the genre. The plot follows predictable beats — a simple case escalating into something larger — and the mystery elements are serviceable but not particularly inventive. The two leads have reasonable chemistry and their performances carry the film further than the script deserves, but the comedic and action set pieces feel recycled from better entries in the genre. Cinematography is competent for a Netflix production with some attractive French location work but nothing visually distinctive. The ending wraps things up in a thoroughly conventional way. As a sequel, it offers little that wasn't already present in On est parti.