Roland was a liaison officer at the Consulate General of France in Miami and was visiting Paris for an investigation into drug trafficking.

[5] In 2011, Rachid Bouchareb announced his desire to make an "American trilogy" on relations between the United States and the Arab world.

[5] For the writing of the screenplay, Bouchareb cited Beverly Hills Cop and also buddy movies like 48 Hrs., Lethal Weapon and L'emmerdeur.

In Le Parisien, Catherine Balle writes "the new feature film by Rachid Bouchareb, a comedy, is hard not to smile to and one gets lost in a fantastic scenario".

For First, Pierre Lunn writes: "The new film by Rachid Bouchareb with Omar Sy is struggling to bring into existence the idea of a buddy cop movie in the French."

Hélène Marzolf of Télérama wonders "what has happened to Rachid Bouchareb to make a film that" Americans would experience as "outrageous and not funny".