The Takedown

Set in France and shot in French. Some mutual teasing between Parisians and people from the provinces. One of two main characters, a pair of Parisian policemen, is Black. Ministry of the Interior wants to make him the face of the police as a tactic to recruit more people of color and improve their own image. The pair come up against a conspiracy in a provincial town that involves people in positions of power espousing anti-immigrant and racist views. Racist jokes, slurs, and stereotypes. References to Nazis and fascists. The racism is confronted and discussed, and the racists ultimately lose.

Two hours of action, like foot and car chases, deadly crashes, and explosions, and violence ranging from bloody fistfights to arrests, shootings, electrocutions, severed body parts, and deaths. A body cut in half is seen up close in a morgue. Another death scene involves a decapitation. Police uncover a plan to kill dozens of innocent civilians; a bomb goes off as part of that plan.

Kissing, sex scenes with no private parts shown, nudity (a dead man's penis, male and female bare bottoms, and a woman's breasts), a woman at a strip club wearing nipple tassels asks a man to smear cream on her back; he tries to also do her bottom. A young and half-dressed woman runs out of an apartment when a young man's father comes home. A man teases another man about a latent homosexual attraction when they must share a bed (and one man likes to sleep naked). Discussion or mention of consent, "a piece of ass," "getting laid," hand jobs, and screwing.

Versions of "f--k," "s--t," and "damn," as well as "ass," "bastard," "d--k," "bitch," "hell," "piss," "screwed," "balls," "butt," "creep," "homo," "perv," and "psycho." Reviewed in the original French with English subtitles.

An assassinated character was dealing a variety of heavy drugs including "oxy" and meth concocted in a lab behind his mother's house. Police inspect the testicles of a dead body for track marks. Someone is sharing a drug used by Nazis to keep people from feeling pain. Mention of hash. Characters drink alcohol with meals.

Parents need to know that the French action film The Takedown (Loin du périph), a sequel to 2012's On the Other Side of the Tracks, finds the same police duo on a case involving a drug trafficking and White supremacist movement in a provincial town. The film has language, violence, sexual content, racist behavior, jokes, and commentary. Banter between the two main characters, who rediscover a valuable friendship, includes some sex talk and mutual taunting about race and privilege. The Black partner suffers racist jabs from a variety of other people; the White partner claims he has it harder because he fulfills no quotas and suggests his friend is being overly sensitive -- until they confront a murderous racist plot. The nonstop action film includes foot and car chases, deadly car crashes, explosions, bloody fistfights, shootings, electrocutions, and severed body parts shown in graphic detail. The police pair drink alcohol at meals and investigate the lab of an assassinated drug dealer. An assassinated character was dealing a variety of heavy drugs including "oxy" and meth concocted in a lab behind his mother's house. Police inspect the testicles of a dead body for track marks. Someone is sharing a drug used by Nazis to keep people from feeling pain. There's mention of hash. Sexual content includes kissing, sex scenes with no private parts shown, partial nudity (a dead man's penis, male and female bare bottoms, a woman's breasts, people partially undressed), and mention of consent, "a piece of ass," "getting laid," hand jobs, and screwing. Language in the English subtitles includes versions of "f--k," "s--t," and "damn," as well as "ass," "bastard," "d--k," "bitch," "hell," "piss," "screwed," "balls," "butt," "creep," "homo," "perv," and "psycho."

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