Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
One scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
7 Oct 2002
rotten:
Like being trapped inside a huge video game, where exciting, inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Oct 2002
rotten:
Reno does what he can in a thankless situation, the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again, and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Oct 2002
fresh:
The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one.
– Matt Weitz,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Nov 2002
rotten:
The movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts.