My New Partner at the Races

1990 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Crime

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IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 2375 2.4K

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Plot summary

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

Director

Claude Zidi Photo
Claude Zidi

Top cast

Jean-Pierre Castaldi Photo
Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Jean-Pierre Portal
Thierry Lhermitte Photo
Thierry Lhermitte as François Lesbuche
Daniel Breton Photo
Daniel Breton as Un adjoint de Guichard
Line Renaud Photo
Line Renaud as Simone
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976.42 MB
1200*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles ru   us  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 3
1.77 GB
1800*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles ru   us  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ophone77 8 / 10

Better than the overall score it gets here

I even think it's just as good as the film it follows. Sure it uses the codes of the film noir genre much less, but the story about a pair of corrupt cops getting initially played out by an even more corrupt pair is enthralling, served with its dose of argot vocabulary traditional for films taking place in the popular arrondissements of Paris. The chemistry between René (Philippe Noiret) and François (Thierry Lhermitte) is still top notch, their counterparts played by Guy Marchand and Jean-Pierre Castaldi are also excellent even if they have much less screen time. It might be a pity Régine didn't play René's woman anymore, just as Julien Guiomar not playing the police chief, but their replacements Line Renaud and Michel Aumont do a more than satisfying job. Especially the latter is marvellously depicting the somehow pitifully naive and ignorant superior to the corrupt policemen who work for him.By the way "ripoux" doesn't exactly mean garbage as some think. It's verlan (language where the syllables are inverted) for "pourris" which means rotten.
Reviewed by writers_reign 8 / 10

Best Of The Badmen

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a movie that makes a noise at the box-office is apt to beget a sequel whether it originates in England (Carry On, Sergeant) or The US (Police Academy), sequels which in turn beget sequels (Carry On ..., Halloween ...) growing progressively inferior. Occasionally, however (French Connection II) a sequel will stand comparison with the original and this is the case here. Les Ripoux was a runaway smash on its release not least by virtue of the quirky pairing of Philippe Noiret and Thierry Thermitte and the twisteroo of an old hand guiding a rookie not through the path of righteousness but that of corruption. This time around they are undone when they carry greed a tad too far but there is another twist in store; they are suspended, natch, but their replacements are worse then they ever were so what we have is, as the title suggest, garbage versus garbage. There can, of course, be only one (technically two, for the benefit of pedants) winner but it is the journey that provides the fun and it does no harm at all that Michel Aumont has a supporting role as their immediate boss.
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