‘Puerto Ricans in Paris’ goes nowhere
Despite its name, “Puerto Ricans in Paris” is less a fish-out-of-water comedy than a mild buddy-cop trifle: good natured and sometimes charming, but not enough for its thin premise to approach the magnifique.
Guzmán’s character, Luis, works on an NYPD unit dedicated to rooting out high-end knockoff merchandise with partner Eddie (Edgar Garcia).
Garcia and Guzmán were in “Puerto Ricans” director and co-writer Ian Edelman’s HBO series “How to Make It in America.”
The detectives are loaned out to help a fashion company in Paris recover the stolen prototype of its next-season handbag.
[...] you know, police departments do that all the time, apparently.
The theft of the bag could somehow spell the end of its beloved designer, Colette (Alice Taglioni), if our intrepid heroes can’t solve the case in time.
Despite the ticking clock, the investigation and movie stroll lugubriously along until the person you pretty much knew from the start was the culprit is caught.