Antigang (also known as The Squad and The Sweeney Paris) is a 2015 French action film directed by Benjamin Rocher and starring Jean Reno. It is a remake of the 2012 film The Sweeney.
Serge Buren is a legendary cop, surrounded by a group of young cops with unconventional methods. Whether they use baseball bats or "forget" the rules during spectacular arrests, the results are there! It is then that a group of murderous robbers enters the scene, robbing the capital's banks and jewelry stores with disconcerting ease, using weapons of war and unstoppable scenarios. Faced with such ingenuity and brutality, Buren and his unit find themselves confronted with a delicate situation: will their expeditious methods be enough to stop these much more Machiavellian criminals?
Tropes:
- Agony of the Feet: While storming the farmhouse where Kasper is hiding, Genu slams an 'enforcer' — a one-man battering ram for breaching doors — on to the foot of one of his mooks.
- Armed Blag: Kasper's ultimate plan involves spooking the Daedalis Bank into transferring its assets in a fleet of armoured cars so he can hijack the convoy.
- Back-Alley Doctor: After being shot during the bank robbery, Waked goes to a back-alley doctor to get the bullet removed and obtain painkillers. The retired commissioner locates the doctor and he is able to supply Niels with Waked's location.
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Niels has just finished off one of Kasper's gang during the final battle when he turns around and finds another gang member pointing a gun at him.There is a shot, and then the gang member falls over as Manu walks on from off-screen, carrying a smoking shotgun.
- Batter Up!: The squad carries baseball bats in their cars which they employ against criminals in their raids.
- Blown Across the Room: Following the bank robbery, one of Kasper's gang grabs a passerby to use as a Human Shield. Serge shoots and wounds the hostage taker, forcing to release the hostage. As soon as he does so, Serge opens up with full burst that catches him in the chest and blows him backwards through a set of doors and down the stairs.
- Boom, Headshot!: When Margaux suffers a Dramatic Ammo Depletion while standing on the bonnet of Kasper's car, he kills her with a single shot to the middle of her forehead fired through the windscreen.
- Bound and Gagged: Kasper and his gang leave the armoured car crews bound and gagged when they take their places to hijack the funds transfer.
- Can't You Read the Sign?: Serge and Niels are both smoking in the surveillance van. Manu asks if he can bum a cigarette off one of them, as he forgot to buy any. Serge just points somberly at the 'No Smoking' displayed prominently in the van.
- Car Fu: In the parking garage, Kasper takes down Serge by reversing into him at high speed.
- Cowboy Cop: Serge Buren is a cowboy cop leading a squad of cowboy cops who use unorthodox and violent methods to take down gangs. Needless to say, Serge's new boss does not approve of their tactics and tries to shut them down.
- Dramatic Ammo Depletion: After Kasper runs down Serge in the parking garage, he crashes his car into one of the parked vehicles. Margaux grabs Serge's dropped automatic rifle and leaps on to the bonnet of Kasper's car. She levels the gun at Kasper and pulls the trigger, only for the clip to run dry. Kasper responds with a Boom, Headshot!.
- Dressing as the Enemy: Kasper and his gang dress in the uniforms of the armoured car company in order to hijack the Vulnerable Convoy.
- Forklift Fu: During the raid on the warehouse, Serge takes down one of the robbers by driving a forklift through an interior wall into him.
- Hand on Womb: At the party following the warehouse raid, Neils has his wife Nadia seated on his lap with his hands resting on her pregnant belly: establishing the relationship between and setting Neils up as an expectant father.
- High-Altitude Interrogation: The squad shakes information about Kaspar's associates out of a crook by holding him off the roof of a building by his ankles.
- Human Shield: Happens twice during the Bank Robbery. When Kasper and his gang exit the bank, they are using Cindy the receptionist as a human shield; abandoning her when they reach the getaway car. Later, when the gang is forced to split up and attempt to escape on foot, one of them is cornered by Serge and grabs a passerby to use as a shield; causing Serge to Shoot the Hostage Taker.
- Improbable Weapon User: Genu uses an 'enforcer' — a one-man battering ram used for breaching doors — as a hand-to-hand weapon; wielding it like a tonfa during the final fight against Kasper's gang.
- Never Bareheaded: Squad member Genu is never seen without his knit cap; wearing it even when the squad are in the office working at their desks.
- No Escape but Down: Waked escapes from Niels by leaping over the edge of the bridge over the Seine. Niels thinks he has jumped into the river, but when he looks over the side, he discovers that Waked has landed on a lower walkway and is running back the opposite direction.
- One-Word Title
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: When Niels sneaks into garage where Waked is hiding, he is confronted by a huge black man. He endures several heavy blows from the bruiser before spinning around and whacking him with a baseball bat, only to get an Oh, Crap! expression on his face as the baseball bat shatters on the giant's forearms.
- Shoot the Hostage Taker: Following the bank robbery, one of Kasper's gang grabs a passerby to use as a Human Shield. Serge shoots and wounds the hostage taker, forcing to release the hostage. As soon as he does so, Serge opens up with full burst that catches him in the chest and blows him backwards through a set of doors and down the stairs.
- Signature Headgear: Squad member Genu is never seen without his knit cap; wearing it even when the squad are in the office working at their desks.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: During the raid in the warehouse, Genu exits the car carrying a baseball bat. His first act is to through the bat at one of the robbers; knocking him out.
- Two Girls to a Team: Serge's elite antigang squad has two female members: Margaux and Ricci.
- We Need a Distraction: Kasper and Waked set up a fake robbery on a jewellery store to lure all of the police away from their real robbery which is going down at the Daedalis Bank.
- Vulnerable Convoy: Kasper's ultimate plan involves spooking the Daedalis Bank into transferring its assets in a fleet of armoured cars so he can hijack the convoy.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Waked uses his girlfriend to scope out the jewellery store. He then shoots her in the neck as he leaves the store after the robbery.
