This is compelling while suffering from a perspective that probably didn't seem like a problem when it was originally shot - the confrontation between the residents of a Paris housing development largely populated by muslims and africans and the police is told largely from the police perspective, and in 2020 that's a problem. The "one good cop" riding along with the two more dodgy ones is a cliche that has become increasingly unbelievable in 2020 as the cops-investigating-and-clearing-cops have piled up, and it damages the realisation of this (although admittedly this isn't entirely a film playing in reality, the igniting incident of a missing lion cub is a case of "seeking exciting visuals over believability"). Still, it builds to a suitably tense finale as the cops behaviour catches up with them brutally, and it's worth following along.
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