2026 · comedy · crime
Police Flash 80
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel1h 26m2026
Paris, 1980s. When his old cop partner is killed in action, Yvon Kastendeuch is propelled to the head of a new unit : Police Flash 80. There, he'll have to team up with young recruits who will challenge his old "dominant male" habits.
Our read: Police Flash 80 (2026) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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