Not awesome, but entertaining film about an alternative Paris where there are many (generally not so powerful) superheroes. Drug dealers are selling a new addictive made with... superhero blood! It makes users emulate the very same superpower for some time. Then, superheroes are being hunted. A policeman who loves candies, seems unruly and has a fruendship with a few former superheroes is the one who is designated to deal with crimes involving superheoes. A new partner will work with him, a policewoman, and their relationship did not start well. The rest of the story is well done, although predictable. Details are being added and they make sense. Pack Royal is a nice superhero team, and so is the relationship Moreau has with its members. I did not like the main villain, although his background story is interesting enough. Worth watching. I will deffinitely watch the sequel if Netflix makes it.
5.8Keywords: based on novel or booksuperhero
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Paris 2020. Superheroes are perfectly assimilated within society and want to be famous at all costs - A drug that gives super powers to mere mortals is spreading all over town. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
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French superheroes and policemen vs very evil and dangerous drug dealers
How I Stayed a Human
American superhero movies are all about cgi and saving the world. I had enough of that!
This movie stayed small, human. They are not superheroes, they are humans with powers, they have feeling, faults, everyday problems and that's why I like it.
Like a French version of Powers (but more entertaining)
If you remember the short lived TV Show Powers, you will find many similarities with this film. The same disillusioned cop working in a world that routinely manifests superheroes, a villain that attempts to extract superpowers from these people and use them himself and some children in danger so the stakes are raised. And that show was based on the comics written by Bendis in 2000 and this film is based on the book written by Gérald Bronner in 2007. And, as another user here was remembering, the really bad Project Power film also had a similar plot. So, nothing new, really.
Yet, for a French superhero film, it was pretty good. Nothing to tell your friends about, but empathetic characters and a decent story and special effects. Where it failed catastrophically, I believe, is in the relationship between the two cops. They had zero chemistry and the female character, which should have represented the point of view of the audience, was almost completely useless in terms of both capabilities and importance to the story. A decent effort, though.