There’s a new Romanian series broadcasted by a certain TV channel called “Good guys”. It’s about the adventures of two policemen in the ever-flourishing world of the Romanian outlaws. It has everything, drugs, prostitution, kinky sex scenes and a huge quantity of Romanian humor. I actually thought it would suck but it’s great! There’s of course a black policeman, called Edi Balan (Balan is something like White, so…), played by Cabral, local TV star, and his partner whom he of course arrests while working undercover. And the English of one of the bad guys (played by a great actor and singer) is actually delicious! Very bad accent, English words mixed with Romanian – mostly cursing and swearing – and the Romanian street-wise attitude! Delicious!!! Obviously, it is copied – mostly influenced by the American series – but it has something very genuinely local that makes it so good! |
Apart from the direct irony which breaks the mood (the black police officer is called "Balan" - White) and some false situations (in ROmania, there are no "detectives" in the Police), the movie is boring and the few actors that play are not credible, because viewers remember them from other embarrassing situations (Calinescu had different TV shows, Banica Jr. is a rocker etc.).
A corny copy of even "cornier" American cop movies.