Something The Fifth Element gets so right is that they make the American police look intimidatingly militarised, but also profoundly stupid, and it works.

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I look at the outfit and see laughably buffoonish, fat, cartoonish NPCs.

The high goofy symmetrical masks with "Police" backwards knocking on low doorways, the massive light in the center of the chest letting criminals/heroes where to aim, and everyone of those guys looks really fat and sweaty. At one point one of them orders McDonalds.

If I was running from these guys, I would be half tempted to trip one over, knowing it would be more than half a minute for them to recover.

@softspeak @vampiress The cop who gets his McDonalds order all down his front is Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf, IIRC.

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It’s the sweatiness that really clinches the authenticity…