Just arrived on Netflix, this Italian series about a Rome police intervention brigade had some advantages on paper. But in fact, lasting two episodes was already a feat!
Between two seasons of the indestructible Squid Gamecoming from North Korea, or two episodes from Crime at the roota new Swedish thriller, Italian fiction is also among the most popular on Netflix. While the cardboard Lidia rules will come back soon for a new salvo and that Love deceived has proven to be one of the finest European successes of 2024 on the streaming platform, another series could well create an event in January 2025. Entitled Public disorder in French, this novelty in six episodes is actually titled A.C.A.B. in original version, referring to the eponymous book by Carlo Bonini which served as inspiration, as well as to the film A.C.A.B.: All Cops Are Bastardsreleased in cinemas in 2012 and already based on the novel. But what is this new adaptation worth?
Public disorder : what is the new Italian series from Netflix about?
Direction Rome. The series opens with the arrival of a CRS brigade in Val de Susa, a site occupied by Zadists. Quickly, the clashes between the activists and the police unit degenerate and become a real bloodbath. While a young person ends up in a coma, an investigation into police violence is opened. Manzinga (Marco Giallini, who already played this role in the film) takes matters into his own hands to cover up the excesses that he himself encouraged and make the evidence disappear. We thus follow this brigade in its daily life, facing the investigation aimed at them and the arrival of a new leader, with much less muscular methods.
There's not much to save in the series Public Disorder sur Netflix
A staging that wants to be nervous but is only dull, characters without relief straight out of a bad caricature… There's not much to save in Public Disorder sur Netflix. Unless you want brutal entertainment with no real purpose or need an excess of testosterone, you will have to move on. The subject of police violence and the idea of following a brigade were not to be thrown away, allowing us to draw a thousand and one nuances at all levels of the chain of command and to paint a portrait of a difficult profession. But the absolute lack of interest in this set of characters, with their ridiculous cowboy behavior, and the mediocre acting of the actors in the first two episodes do not give us anything to mill about to make us want to move on to the next episode. Despite some scenes of tense and rather gripping confrontations, the banality of the scenario and the clumsiness of the photography end up making us bored and making us feel like we're in a fun situation.
France
TV
