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Cop Out (2010)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 129

Cop Out is a cliched buddy action/comedy that suffers from stale gags and slack pacing.

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 32

Cop Out is a cliched buddy action/comedy that suffers from stale gags and slack pacing.

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Average Rating: 3/5
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Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan team up for the Warner Bros. police buddy movie Cop Out in this Kevin Smith-directed production. From a script by Robb and Mark Cullen, the story centers around police detectives Jimmy (Willis), a no-B.S. divorced dad, and Paul (Morgan), a crazy-talking loose cannon. Despite nine years as partners, the two lawmen can still sometimes seem like polar opposites -- especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and

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Comedy

Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen

Jul 20, 2010

$44.0M

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All Critics (161) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (129) | DVD (6)

Joyless, pointless, humorless.

May 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Film.com
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[A] pitifully unfunny 'hommage' to '80s action comedies.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Smith certainly does his thing here, delivering a film that's part celebration and part parody of the well-worn genre.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
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It just wants to remind audiences of something they've enjoyed before, like looking at an old photo album.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: MSN Movies
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Cop Out is a little too well-shot to be full-on cheesy and too much a redux to be, well, as fresh as Beverly Hills Cop or Lethal Weapon.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment (1)
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An unholy mess.

February 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
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Smith's love of long takes where people talk about nothing in particular just isn't right for this movie.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

Cop Out is marvelously juvenile, not just in its typical situation comedy and sight gags, but from its ability (even desire) to frequently bring its plot to a shuddering halt so its characters can engage in a few minutes of quiet ridiculousness.

March 18, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

Even if many of the jokes in Cop Out aren't all that funny, Smith's facility with crude wordplay is what he salvages from this huge mess of a film.

March 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

O roteiro estúpido só não se revela pior do que a direção amadora de Smith, que, também assinando a montagem, não consegue criar lógica ou estabelecer ritmo algum, demonstrando que ainda não aprendeu nem o básico da profissão depois de tantos anos.

February 27, 2011
Cinema em Cena

Cop Out feels like a pilot lost without 20 or so episodes to follow it up.

October 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK

A half-baked concept halfheartedly executed.

August 25, 2010 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

As something of a Kevin Smith fan, this mostly hurt to watch.

August 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Projection Booth
Projection Booth

Willis and Morgan are a devilishly delightful down and dirty detective duo, as Kevin Smith releases their combo inner zany outlaws in a kind of Clerks with badges.

July 24, 2010 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

...it looks as though everyone in the film had a better time making it than the audience has watching it.

July 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Once you've boogied out to Harold Faltermeyer's self-parodic "Axel F"-style music, it's all downhill from there. [Blu-ray]

July 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Groucho Reviews

Ultimately, there are hints that Cop Out was supposed to be something smarter and less lazy, but no-one involved seems to be able to counter the truly terrible script.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Digital Spy
Digital Spy

It could have been a match made in heaven. The snake in the garden is a tired script from Rob and Mark Cullen, which purports to "spoof" Eighties buddy movies (Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, etc) but lacks any real brain power of its own.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment (1)
This is London

Trying to make up for a lack of genuine wit, this film adopts a frenetic pace with a constant stream of jokes and action. The result is watchable, occasionally funny and instantly forgettable.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

Seann William Scott provides some amusing moments as irrepressible thief Dave but they are few and far between.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Express
Daily Express

The whole enterprise plays out like a bad, dumbed-down US version of Hot Fuzz, or Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, minus Robert Downey Jr and the meticulously structured verbal riffs.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Scotsman | Comment (1)

It's just not very funny -- despite the all-too-apparent struggle to deliver verbal fireworks, there's something immovably sluggish and inert about it.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Cop Out marks a new low which is really saying something given that Smith's the man behind Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comments (2)
Daily Mirror [UK]

Whilst Smith uses crash zooms and slow motion to evoke the likes of Michael Bay, it just feels clumsy and drawn-out.

May 20, 2010
Little White Lies

Kev, get thee to a typewriter. You're so much better than this.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Cop Out

Hmmmm this film tries way too hard to be a cool violent buddy cop flick, well basically the next Lethal Weapon franchise methinks. It falls way short of the mark in all areas to be honest.

I didn't really find it funny, it just seemed so forced and to eager to result to bad language to try and make things funnier. There isn't much action, well anything to shout about anyway and well its all been done before but much much better, not even close to 'Beverly Hills Cop', '48 Hours', 'Lethal Weapon' or even 'Red Heat', I could go on. Cast wise Tracy Morgan is basically a fat Chris Tucker and nowhere near as good where as Willis is just Willis as in most of his other action flicks, in my opinion he doesn't do comedy too well mainly because he's a bald plank of wood with a set number of facial expressions.

Cop out? yes it is, don't bother, nowhere near Die Hard standards on action and nowhere near the above mentioned buddy cop flick standards on comedy, plus zero originality.
March 27, 2010
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I guess Kevin Smith is done making good films.
November 20, 2011
Graham Jones

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    1. Paul: You just shot down the wrong mother fucker 'mother fucker'.
    – Submitted by John B (15 months ago)
    1. Paul: Why did you smack me?
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (20 months ago)
    1. Paul: Fuckin' monocle wearin' mother fucker.
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
    1. Paul: This is the stuff that my mom would tell friends about me, 'My son is genius, my son is a genius'.
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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