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A career in coaching or management is usually the next step for most footballers after they drop out of playing professionally, but some choose to work as pundits. This is not the path that Iceland’s previous goalkeeper Hannes por Halldórsson takes, as he switches to directing with this silly cop comedy. This film is what one might imagine the Icelandic version of Hot Fuzz to be: an affectionate spoof on Hollywood action movies, but with a gay twist. It is reasonably humorous, but like most genre parodies, it starts to resemble a budget version of the original films it tries to mock. Still, I’m sure the celebrity cast leads to more laughs for the audience in Iceland.
Cop Secret features a funny main character, detective Bússi (who is known stand-up comic and TV star Auðunn Blöndal). Bússi is now Iceland’s most notoriously known crime fighter and is considered an elite cop. He’s a knuckle-dragging dimwitted sloth of a drunk who patrols ReykjavÃk in an aviator and leather jacket while beating up thugs. He gets ditched by his partner Klemenz (Sverrir Thor Sverrisson), who wears cardigans, after a car chase where Klemenz’s toddler is trapped in the backseat (there is a good running joke that calm Reykjavik is not really a center of crime). The reason for Bússi’s aggressively macho demeanor becomes Bússi’s unwillingness to come out of the closely guarded home.
The big reveal of this film Cop Secret is revealed as soon as the sloppy Bussi (Audunn Blondal), Iceland’s greatest police officer is put on a reluctant team with his stylish competitor from a different precinct, Hordur (Egill Einarsson). While Bussi’s jaw unhinges, Hordur moves towards him in a slow romantic motion, his perfect jacket casually resting over his shoulder. While both are fighting to be the top of the pack, it is abundantly clear that differences in style over-grooming aside the competition will very soon be replaced by breeding.
I want to see exactly how far Bussi can go without giving up that excess macho persona before his berserk crack-up. To the entire direction that action film is taking, I cannot even seem to recall the last time I dined at a theme restaurant parodying a Hollywood action movie like this one because its emcee, Hannes Thor Halldorsson, does everything to succeed. The plot an incoherent mess packed with detonations, bank robberies, and unfulfilled lust easily dulls and simply wears out with its pacing. The camera work as well as the dialogue tries to parody the cop buddy system which is laughable because the whole point of it was ignorance. Maybe the coarse screenplay is supposed to be the goal, but the out-of-shape performance simply demolishes my theory.
We have a villain that resembles a disfigured ex-military man a police chief who’s a woman and a second in command who’s a panic-stricken woman. This police chief, who Kasia noticed during her Nordic noir series, goes by the name Steinunn Olina Thorsteinsdottir. That second guy, Klemenz appears to be the most anxious of the three, and in addition to that, he frequently repeats phrases like, You vow your hate towards police procedures! Klemenz keeps moaning while the two other characters are engaging in a car chase.
The car chase is accompanied by an anthem structure, which provides an overview of the action that occurred during the film. While the cinematographer is able to show his skills, the scene is goofy fun. However, a transformation of a sprinkled hyper-romantic scene into the gay trope was hilariously dreadful.
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