Another in a long line of bad Netflix original French language action thrillers Nice girlsdirected by Noémie Saglio, might have been quite good if it weren’t for the constant jokes about how not every joke they make is politically correct. The film gets boring after the first viewing and the unnecessary amount of it is completely inappropriate. Bad Girls The action is fine, as are the romances and partnerships at the heart of the plot. But the crime they’re trying to solve is difficult to follow. That is, if you even allow yourself to get carried away out of boredom or close your ears to the bad humor long enough to try.

Léo (Alice Taglioni) is a cop with a terrible boss who is investigating the murder of another cop she loved like a brother. And apparently there’s a sniper after her too? Because the murder happened in Germany, a German cop from the internal investigations department is also assigned to the case, who the cast repeatedly makes fun of before we meet him, simply because he’s German. When that cop turns out to be a black woman named Mélanie (Stéfi Celma), everyone is completely freaked out.

It’s a typical enemies-to-friend sequence, with the two characters, despite their differences and personal squabbles, brought closer together through a few decent action scenes. To make matters worse, this all happens while Léo is supposed to be working as security at a major oil summit being protested by a group of young activists who, for some inexplicable reason, hate Léo’s boss.

Léo is also in a relationship with Bat (Baptiste Lecaplain), who helps with the investigation, mainly as the man in the chair, at the end. They are kind of cute, you have to give them that. And some of the banter between Léo and Mélanie is pretty tolerable too. But Nice girls falls apart completely as soon as you try to follow the plot. There are too many villains, henchmen, attackers and allies involved, doing too many obscure things, for you to really bother to keep track of who is who and what each person’s motives are as the film progresses.

In fact, it’s the relationship between Léo and Mélanie and the motivations they reveal over time for wanting to solve this murder that keep things going. But at every turn, clumsy and pointless attempts at risqué humor threaten to drown the whole thing out. There’s one joke after another about how everything has to be political. correct. Sometimes they make jokes that are not politically correct, followed by jokes about how politically correct they should be. Other times they just go around complaining aboutt political correctness.

Nice girls doesn’t try to say anything in the context of the film itself. It’s all just pointless and bad commentary on the state of society or comedy – or something. It’s tasteless, constant, and never adds anything to a scene except groans. The gunfights and hand-to-hand combat choreography are all decently choreographed, aside from one bizarre stunt shot involving wire. It’s maybe even a little better than the Netflix average.

The scenery is pretty, too. There’s a really unpleasant glare on a car’s windshield during the climactic chase scene, though. And the dialogue is full of expository lines that make it seem like the film thinks you’re stupid. Bat’s constant unintentional references aren’t particularly exciting, either.

Nice girls wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t insist on repeating some weird, backwards point about political correctness. There’s entertaining action and entertaining relationship dynamics. The slightly confusing plot doesn’t matter much in a cheap action thriller like this. It’s just hard to have too much fun when every other line is either a poor explanation or bad humor about political correctness.

Nice girls is now streaming on Netflix.