In a set - up typical of any number of cop movies, hard - bitten veteran Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and cocky newcomer Mills (Brad Pitt) partner up to spend one week
together as homicide detectives: Somerset's last and Mills's first.
Not exact matches
They will talk about gun deaths, gun
homicides, and total suicides all
together, switching
as necessary to grab the right statistic.
director Xavier Beauvois uses the investigation of one crime... to string
together a character piece that is
as much about the character of a Parisian
homicide squad within a police department
as it is a study of some of the individuals who comprise it.
In their first job
together, a triple
homicide call turns into a battle for survival in one of the city's worst slum blocks,
as they become ensconced in the drug - dealing turf war of former prostitute Ma - Ma (Lena Headey, TV's Game of Thrones) and her enforcer Kay (Wood Harris, best known for The Wire).