36th Precinct 4K 2004 Ultra HD 2160p

A gang of elusive and dangerous criminals has been running Paris for months. Almost every day they manage to attack well-protected banks, and every time they get away with it. Two talented and ambitious police officers - Leo Wrinks, head of the Anti-Gang Division, and Dennis Klein, head of the Organized Crime Division, has a real chance to rise up the ranks. Police Chief Robert Mancini, their good friend, gives them the following condition: the one who will be able to disarm a gang of raiders, will become Chief of Police of the famous Office at 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Between the two super-police unfolds a real struggle. Former friends and now irreconcilable enemies, experience differences in literally everything - from the methods of catching criminals and ending with the choice of subordinates. In addition, for many years between them stands a beautiful woman Camille Vrinks. And when it comes to women, there can be no compromise!

User Review
About two police officers - the almost cynical careerist Denis Klein (Gerard Depardieu) and the almost moralistic Leo Vrinks (Daniel Otoy).

Actually, the key word in the synopsis is 'almost', because the movie even starts with a drunken party with a police shooting. And don't think that I mean some kind of a chase after the criminals who got loose at the gathering - it's almost literally a Caucasian wedding with festive fireworks, where the role of Dagestanis is played by the custodians of order.... And in the first half an hour there are many such details - friendship with a prostitute, for example, a beating with threats, a police officer's transportation of a released convict to the scene of the crime.... The difference between the criminal world and the world of cops is only in the involvement of the latter in intrigues and politics. Otherwise, it's fleshy and poorly covered violence.

Probably, that's the point of Quay - the police officers are not bound by anything but a conventionally understood sense of duty and a fanatical desire to put the gangsters behind bars. By any means necessary. However... Here the director includes the theme of a moral code, the executor of which becomes the hero of Daniel Otoya, who was at that time at the peak of his acting form.... And even something resembling a moral choice. Klein (Depardieu) for lack of anything but work and Vrinks (Otoy), who has a lot of things, or rather a lot of who - wife, daughter, comrades (at work), friends (in the criminal world). Oh, and ideas about what a cop can and can't do. Kill? You can. Betray? You can't. And although the director simplifies the ending a bit, but before it the tension is kept qualitatively, and also by the battle of characters, and not only by shooting. So, Nikita and Leon, examples of the psychological (sentimental) action movie genre, got a worthy successor.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (61.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#French: DTS 2.0 (Commentary by Director Olivier Marchal)

Info Subtitles

French SDH, English, German SDH.