Medellin

Medellin is a 2023 action-comedy movie directed by Franck Gastambide, written by Gastambide and Charles Van Tieghem, and starring Gastambide, Ramzy Bedia, and Anouar Toubali. Plot Reda is a French wannabe tough guy who manages a boxing gym. When his brother Brahim, a social media influencer, fan of narcoculture, and even more so of Pablo Escobar, who calls himself Pablito, is kidnapped by cartel members during a trip to Colombia, Reda unexpectedly jumps into action, gathering his gym members and making them pledge to accompany him to Medellin to rescue his younger brother. However, at the airport, only his childhood buddy Stan and Chafix, a dwarf who trains at the gym, show up. The three unlikely heroes land in Medellin and head to a strip club, where they meet and question Cynthia, a pole dancer. She speaks a little French and suspiciously tries to get them to go somewhere else. They end up snorting cocaine before going on a full-night drug-fueled party with strippers. When they wake up with horrible headaches, they realize that they somehow ended up kidnapping Don Nacho, the son of El Diablo, the cartel leader. Reda posts a video online, where he asks for his brother in exchange for Don Nacho. Soon after, his phone rings: it is his brother. Brahim sounds panicked as he explains he had actually staged his kidnapping in an ill-conceived stunt to drive up viewership and that he is really enjoying a vacation in another city in Colombia. Realizing that they are holding Don Nacho for no reason, the trio decide to pick up Brahim and flee. Alas, the cartel is already on their tracks and while Reda, Stan, and Chafix (with Don Nacho in the trunk of the car) barely escape after a car chase and shoot-out, Brahim is kidnapped (for real this time) by the cartel.