- Location: Ma & Pa Fisher's
- Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a fairly standard police action-comedy that manages to find yet another way to mismatch two detectives. It's what Roger Ebert brilliantly termed a "Wunza Movie," as in one's a French Canadian and the other's an English Canadian. I was worried that it might be difficult for a Yankee to appreciate the expected cultural in-jokes, but it turns out that the French guy is sloppy and romantic while the English guy is professional and uptight. By comparison, the hockey-obsessed serial killer seems almost subtle.
- Initially, the detectives David Bouchard (Patrick Huard) and Martin Ward (Colm Feore) are brought together by the discovery of a body that spans the Quebec-Ontario border. Their comically bilingual investigation first takes them into Quebec, where they forcibly arrest the suspicious Luc Therrien (Sylvain Marcel). Two violent and unexpected explosions later, Therrien is presumed dead, the evidence in his house is destroyed, and the murders continue to accumulate. Fortunately, the killer has the habit of tattooing hints to his next crime on each victim, and the two detectives realize that he is targeting the purveyors of bad hockey deals.
- While the first half of the film is completely silly and exaggerated, the two detectives are sufficiently likable that it is not unpleasant to watch. Unfortunately, the same can't be said once things move to Ontario. The first sign of real trouble is an awful, awful scene that inexplicably juxtaposes the mysteriously resurrected Therrien's attack on Ward with shots of Bouchard having sex with Ward's sister. This alone would have been enough to torpedo most movies, but it is followed by a painfully unfunny scene of Therrien doing a Travis Bickle impression in hockey mascot regalia and the overwhelmingly cliched kidnapping of Bouchard's daughter. Finally, the film dramatically reveals that the mysterious hockey killer is...some no-name guy we haven't met. Like every other aspect of the production, he blows up at the end.
- According to the imdb, this film ended Porky's 24-year reign as the top-grossing film in the Canadian box office, although it is not clear that this includes adjustments for inflation.
