MOVIE REVIEW: Cop Out — C

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MOVIE REVIEW: Cop Out — C

POSTED: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 7:30 PM

Filed Under: Movies Movie Review

You won't see our review of Cop Out in tomorrow's paper because it didn't screen in time for publication. But we went anyway.

Cop Out is not a Kevin Smith movie. He directed it, as the credits will tell you. But it also marks the first time that the director has taken the reins of a film without writing its script, and the once-wunderkind leaves little trace of his presence. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) are longtime partners with an outside-the-box (to say the least) approach to police work. A swirling plot that involves Jimmy's daughter's (Michelle Trachtenberg) wedding, a precious Andy Pafco baseball card, a parkour-practicing bandit with a surfing wiener dog tattoo (Seann William Scott) and a Mexican drug dealer (Guillermo Diaz) serves as a vehicle for the pair to play their respective badass and batshit archetypes (when they go off type though, they're essentially useless). Actors — Jason Lee, Rashida Jones — come and go, often wasted in Mark and Robb Cullen's sprawling script. But Willis and Morgan know their roles and play them well. Watching Morgan chase a perp wearing a cell phone costume or scream movie lines as her interrogates an informant is gratifying enough. Too bad Smith never shows up to the party.

City Paper Grade: C

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Posted 2010-02-26 07:44:42

Just from the trailers my opinion of this movie is that Bruce Willis must really be needing a paycheck.

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