Judging by the names in the cast and crew, this is one of the most international movies I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the biggest messes. After several hundred years in the same body, a demon needs to be reborn. So he impregnates a Japanese girl living abroad, forcing her father to fly all the way to France to try to kill her. It proves to be no easy task, as he doesn’t want to do it and a French friend and a squad of the demon’s henchmen protect her. For the most part this is just garden variety bad. But one element particularly bothered me: the friend has a stupid, annoying sidekick who appears to be of North African descent. I’m not sufficiently familiar with French culture to say for certain, but I’m willing to bet that the guy is an ethnic stereotype that would be considered highly offensive as a Black or Hispanic caricature in an American movie. Wish I’d skipped it
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