Craig Thomas I watched this movie last night and loved it.From the opening scene where the caricatured bumbling mainland police are foiled by the caricatured independantist locals, I was laughing my head off.Remi the private detective from Paris is hired on a commercial matter to go to Corsica to find Ange Leoni, the independantist who happens to be on the run from police.Many farcical scenes ensue as Remi comes up against a closed culture while Ange plays cat and mouse with the police. Meanwhile rival gangs of independantists and rival judicial organisations all vie with each other for influence and control over events with mostly ridiculous results.I've never been to Corsica, but if you've ever read "Asterix in Corsica", you will understand what all the jokes are about, although I doubt this movie would be anywhere near as much fun with subtitles. The deliberately thick patois at the start is only there for colour - the rest of the movie is in lightly southern-accented French.

pninson This comedy-thriller is probably a lot funnier if you know something about Corsica. You'll get the general idea, though; but it's not particularly exciting. I admit I did not finish watching it, but I got about halfway through before I decided I really didn't care.A private eye is hired to find Ange Leoni (Jean Reno), and proceeds to bumble and stumble about the island. His misadventures are mildly funny...The DVD does not look very good, but a bigger problem is the subtitles. In most outdoor scenes they are not dark enough to be readable, so unless your French is very good, you're going to miss a lot of dialogue. I know enough French to get by, but it's rusty, and this is a very rapid-fire, highly accented regional French that's harder to understand than average.

alamborn I saw this movie for the first time last night, and absolutely laughed my head off! I am an American who does speak French, so I don't know what laughs might be "lost in translation" for some non-francophones, but, the sheer comical situations, personalities, and facial expressions, I think are hilarious in any language. The added treat is the extremely lovely settings, indoor and outdoor, where the film takes place. Now I feel I must see Corsica at least once in my lifetime.Unlike many French films, which are so often self-conscious, unimaginative, and non-spontaneous, "L'enquête corse" is totally spontaneous and refreshing. It delivers!

hakapes Here on the European continent we have the luck to have some good titles from independent studios to freshen up the much standardized Hollywood look. What is more, when such a film comes, it is usually a quality movie so it can keep up with the competition from the US. Therefore I really hoped that after L'Opération Corned-Beef, Les Visiteurs, Tais-toi!, the name of Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, will be a guarantee for a good 2 hours to laugh at - however I hardly had a few minutes to smile tonight.Christian Clavier plays a detective (Rémi or Jack Palmer) who is sent with a fake story to Corse, to look up Ange Léoni (Jean Reno), leader of the a local terrorist-separatist group. There he meets the stunning sister of Ange, Léa (Caterina Murino) and a lot of trouble.Unfortunately, despite the good setup and some good names from French comedy, the interpretation is quite week. The almost Miss Italy Caterina Murino playing the sexy diva was the only point of attraction keeping our attention on the screen, at least that of the men audience. Otherwise, frame after frame, the story was getting more and more complicated, ages away from reality, with even more overacting and exaggerated jokes each time. The action movie sequences were of original idea but the usual problem of French action movies, the lack of money, showed.You can skip this one in peace - 4/10.