Cop Out – Giving Keystone Cops a bad name.
Cop Out – Giving Keystone Cops a bad name.
Rated: R Time: 1:50
Stars: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Ana De La Reguera, Guillermo Diaz and others
Final Grade: C-
Jimmy’s (Willis) one of New York’s finest and the proud father of a daughter that’s getting married in a few weeks and wants a large wedding. His ex-wife’s new husband is playing the money card and trying to do the studly thing of showing up her ex-husband in front of his kid.
Jimmy has a card up his sleeve. It’s an old and valuable baseball card that he’s hoping to sell for enough cash to cover his kid’s wedding. But he runs into a small snag. While at the store getting the card appraised for sale, he’s robbed, in broad daylight and in front of his incredibly inept partner Paul (Morgan) who’s more intent on his cell phone conversation than watching his partner getting tazored and robbed right in front of him. Frankly, if Jimmy weren’t so absolutely stupid he might be funny.
As if having Paul as a partner isn’t bad luck enough, poor Jimmy’s luck takes a turn for the worse when local drug lord Poh Boy (Diaz) becomes the new owner of the card. Poh Boy it seems is interested in making Jimmy and Paul an offer they can’t refuse and at the same time get back some property that he’s lost and dearly wants back.
The plot winds its way through several improbable road chases, kidnappings and gun fights that make the Battle of the Bulge dim by comparison as these totally mismatched partners attempt to retrieve the lost baseball card while all the time staying alive and trying to catch Paul’s wife in a unfaithful romp with her neighbor.
If you’re thinking that this plot sounds like it’s the extreme opposite of a Die Hard movie and perhaps dreamed up by a bunch of incredibly drunk frat boys after a long weekend of boozing, you’d be about right. Frankly, there are a few laughs in this flick, but not because they’re funny but because the scene is that stupid.
This comedy wanna-be is seriously laced with violence, language and sexual innuendo. It’s definitely not for kids and not worth the six bucks to see it at a matinee.
I’m Don Rima, and that’s the way I saw it, From Where I Stand.
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