lety Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 is pretty funny...for the first 20 minutes. After that, it totally disintegrates into a generic buddy movie that could have had any two actors in the lead and gotten the same results. Cop Out fizzles out once the action scenes kick in. In fact, it might have been a better film had the action scenes been booted in favor of more time spent concentrating on the human elements. It also might have worked better had the two leads, Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, had even the tiniest bit of chemistry. They don't, and the film suffers for it. Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan play NY police officers who've been partners for nine years. Jimmy (Willis) is the more sedate, level-headed one while Paul (Morgan) is more emotional, sentimental, and easily riled up. These are the comic book versions of cops, which is fine since Cop Out isn't trying to be Training Day. Suspended following the latest in an apparently lengthy list of bad decisions, Jimmy and Paul are forced into action in an unofficial capacity after Jimmy's prized baseball card is stolen while he's trying to sell it to pay for his only child's wedding.If he can recover the card, he can save his pride. If not, then his ex-wife's wealthy hubby (played by Jason Lee) will foot the bill for the $50,000 wedding. Jimmy doesn't want that to happen and is willing to go to pretty much any length, including making a deal with one of the major players in the local drug trade, in order to get his rare card back still in pristine condition. Jimmy and Paul have to find a stolen Mercedes and in exchange baseball collector/drug dealer Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz) will return the card. After a pint-sized, underage trash-talking car thief points them in the right direction, Jimmy and Paul set off to retrieve the Mercedes. What follows is a series of misadventures involving car chases, a gorgeous mistress of a major Mexican drug lord who doesn't speak English, Seann William Scott (the funniest actor in the film) as a thief who practices Parkour, a teddy bear nanny cam, and other assorted silliness that serves no purpose other than to fill out the 100 minute running time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnstyle Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 It’s a comedy film directed by Kevin smith. A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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