Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are an odd-ball cop duo that have been working together for nine years. After Jimmy has his rare baseball card stolen, which he was going to use to pay for his daughter's wedding, these two cops head out on an investigation to get the card back only to get caught up in the middle of a gang fued.
Cop Out is the newest film by Keven Smith, most notably acclaimed for Clerks. This is one comedy that seems to follow in those footsteps with crude humor and lots of foul mouthed jokes that work on less of an occasion than we would expect. The plot is simple, nothing special, and feels contrived at time, which wouldn't be a problem if the film made us laugh more. I've enjoyed a crude or raunchy comedy here and there, but this film has little to offer. The laugh moments are too few and the rest of the film is a shoot em' up action film. It's a buddy cop movie that succeeds to fail.
This is a film that feels like it is wasting the talent of great actors. Tracy Morgan is an up and coming actor but he seems to have a knack for comedy he just doesn't seem to have been handed the right material and Bruce Willis is just one of those legendary actors. The acting is good but with better material it could be better. It's also evident that the film is written by a lover of at least dramatic cop and gangster films, which cause perhaps some of the only truly comedic scenes in the film.
To truly appreciate this film you'll need to turn off your brain and return to junior high for this crude buddy romp comedy.
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