Jean Paul Belmondo is probably best know still to English speaking audiences for his French classics but he made an awful lot of commercial crud that was popular in France. From the 70s to the 80s you could count on an annual Belmondo film where he'd play a secret agent or cop going around bashing people up. This one flopped and ended the cycle.
This one is best described as Belmondo's most "McBain" movie. He's a tough cop who discusses retirement with his partner - who is duly killed by a psycho baddie, leaving Belmondo to look after his cute kid. There's some other cops, a visit to a nightclub where they play hilariously awful 80s French pop songs, a visit to a brothel, tired action sequences that seem out of a TV show.
The relationship between Belmondo and the kid is undercooked, the villains are dull. It's a very ordinary movie.
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