Cop Out
admin | Jul 17, 2010 | 5 comments
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Officers Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges have their weapons drawn on a gun-wielding killer. They agree to shoot on three. But, wait, does that mean 1…2…shoot or 1…2…3…then shoot? Punches hit hard and laughs hit harder (or is it the other way ’round?) when action star Bruce Willis and ace comic Tracy Morgan pair as bickering-but-got-your-back Brooklyn buddy cops. Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) directs the gritty, goofball goings-on as the guys hunt for a … More >>
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R26C0KDY6QH76 Gina from Haunted Flower reviews “Cop Out” starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and directed by Kevin Smith. Did the latest buddy cop duo flop?
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To say “Cop Out” is bad is to underestimate how excrable this movie truly is! I can safely say that “Cop Out” is one of the worst movies I ever sat through; and I’ve sat through some really bad ones. Not only is the pacing poor, the rapport forced, and the acting awful, there ar less laughs in this ‘buddy comedy’ than there were in “Julia and Julia.”
Bruce Willis merely goes through the motions and looks like he was having second thoughts in merely every scene. Tracy Morgan should be given the 2011 Razzie right now…He’s that bad. The plot is a mish-mash of Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, 48 Hours, and Lethal Weapon. The music has been lifted right out of Fletch and you’ll be longing for even one moment as funny as the weakest moment from any of the above named films.
Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie like it was guaranteed to infect you with the Bubonic Plague.
Ok, so this is a cop movie, 2 cops, serious white guy (Bruce Willis) and stereotypical bumbling black guy. So lets consider the primary aspects of the movie:
1) Story line: An extremely weak plot. A snitch tells 2 bumbling cops about a narcotics drop off. The cops have a stake out (with just 2 guys), it goes foul, snitch dies. In comes a drug baron, a very very cheesy mexican dude with equally cheesy Mexican actors as side kicks. I live in LA, and I know mexican tough guys, these guys are the kinder garden variety. Seems the drug baron has lost a car.
White guy (Bruce) has daughter’s wedding, needs 50g’s, decides to sell a rare baseball card. Card gets stolen by Stifler (from American pie… of Stifler’s Mom fame). Stifler is in to parcour (Street jumping) and steals the baseball card, which he sells to the drug lord. Then comes the worst ever street jumping clip ever filmed. I mean if I had a retarded little brother, who had polio… probably he could jump better.
Drug lord strikes a deal with the cops, get the car… get the baseball card back. Hmmm.. didnt know any NY cops who were soft enough to let a street hood call the shots. Anyway, these 2 evidently allow it. They trace the car.. By interrogating a 11 year old car jacker! JESUS! Car has been sold to a russian attorney. Honestly… NY lawyers make enough money to buy new cars (especially if living in a mansion with a swimming pool and detached garage as shown here), and any lawyer knows better than to deal in stolen goods and have his license revoked. /facepalm!
The cops get the car, and surprisingly, there is a girl in the trunk, thumping away. Evidently she has been there 2 days. And no one noticed it, with all the dealings with the car…while stealing the car, changing the number plates (as you would expect car thieves to do) or while the car was being sold to the lawyer.
Well, the cops find the girl. She is the ex-mistress of a Mexican drug baron, who our NY drug baron killed. She has a flash drive with the mexican baron’s bank information. Passwords and cash amounts. (How convinient).
She gives the 2 cops the slip, and leaves the flash drive (her only bargaining chip) behind. She is eventually caught by the NY drug baron.
Insane twist : Stifler is being held for felony robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, Assault on a police officer. I believe that the bail for that would be around a couple of million dollars, but … guess what… Bruce willis, who doesnt have 50 g’s for his kid’s wedding, has dough enough to bail him. BIG hole in the plot!
Plan: stifler is going to go in to the NY drug baron’s house (which everyone seems to know where it is…) and its a condemned house (by the looks of it). Stifler falls off the roof and dies (Lol). the cops are in a shoot out. The bad guys die. Black dude finds out from nanny cam his wife isnt cheating on him. Bruce’s wife’s 2nd husband pays for the wedding. The flash drive is forgotten.
You are left with a wtf feeling.
Take “Shutter Island” for example. It had one story to tell, which it did solidly. Genius, Scorsese style. Take “Cop Out”, mindless plot made up by a writer who is obviously on some serious drugs.
There is NOTHING which ties up. The story line is absolutely nonsense.
There is some lame attempts at slapstick humor, but it is horribly presented.
Acting: Bruce willis is a respected actor. He must have been seriously compromised (wine or women?) to take up this pathetic role. His team up with the black dude is really really ill matched. There is absolutely no on screen chemistry.
There is a scene, where the black guy literally pouts and says “PUH LEEEEAAASSE… look at the nanny cam I put in my wife’s bedroom to find out if she is cheating on me. I am too gutless to look, please look and tell me what happens.” How lame is that….
The acting makes you disrespect Bruce Willis. Everyone else is pretty bad as well. Well, you get it, with such a plot, and such direction, no one can really look good.
It is an utter waste of time. It is so much fail.. let alone paying to see it on a theatre, or paying to rent the DVD or pay per view.. Dont even download it for free. LAWL. Its total fail!
Kaz, LA April 2010.
From the very beginning of Cop Out, you know you’re watching a bad movie. I didn’t believe Tracy Morgan as a cop at all, unless there’s a Special Ed Police Academy that his character graduated from. Morgon’s just bad and that’s mostly why the movie is bad, because it counts on him for most of the laughs. He’s not funny, whether he’s dressed like a giant phone or quoting lines from other movies. His impersonations are so bad that Bruce Willis’ character has to tell us who Morgan is supposed to be. Sean William Scott isn’t exactly at his best, but when there’s laughs in the movie, they are supplied by him.
Director Kevin Smith was a guest critic a few times on At the Movies, so you’d think he knew a thing or 2 about how to make a good movie. From the trailers I knew this movie would be bad. So I’m surprised that Kevin Smith didn’t know that he was making an awful movie. Hell, if I was directing this, I’d know the movie was bad just by watching Morgan’s performance. Smith should have just fired him and hired a better actor. But then again, the story sucked too.
After years of carving out his own unique niche in film history — call it smart/fart art because of its odd balance of intelligent comic dialogue and toilet humor – Kevin Smith has finally done the one thing his dedicated fans may never forgive him for.
He’s sold out.
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