Icelandic action comedy Cop Secret has been announced as an late edition to next month’s BFI London Film Festival. Alief the film’s distributor has sent us a English subtitled Trailer, as Two maverick Icelandic policemen pair up – in more ways than one!
The cast includes Auðunn Blöndal, Egill Einarsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir as well as Björn Hlynur Haraldsson who recently starred in The Witcher. The film is written and directed by Hannes Þór Halldórsson whom if you know football, he was the Iceland international keeper who saved Lionel Messi penalty at 2018 World Cup. Now retired his career now in film and this film garnered some strong reviews at Locarno Film Festival.
The film is all about a tough super-cop, in denial about his sexuality, falls in love with his new partner while investigating a string of bank robberies where nothing seems to have been stolen.
If you enjoy those 1980’s and 90’s type buddy cop action thrillers like Miami Vice, you might enjoy this one. However it will parody those films and shows but in a fun entertaining way!
Cop movie cliches have been sent up before, but this Icelandic action comedy takes the homoerotic subtext of so many buddy movies and unapologetically comes out all guns blazing. Rival law enforcers, rough-edged slugger Bússi Bödvarsson (Audunn Blöndal) and slick ex-model shooter Hördur Bess (Egill Einarsson) reluctantly join forces to stop criminal mastermind Rikki Ferrari (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson). Desperate as they are to stop Ferrari’s bank heists, they may just, despite Bússi’s initial denial, want each other even more. Cop Secret embraces the genre’s more ludicrous tropes – expendable henchmen, Mexican standoffs – then gleefully squeezes them tighter. Debut feature director – and Iceland’s international goalkeeper, no less – Hannes Thór Halldórsson deftly adds his own surreal flourishes, so when these cops shoot over the top everybody still scores.
Cop Secret will make it’s UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 6th October [Buy tickets]. There is no details on if and when the film may get an general UK or Irish release.
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