Cop Out 2010

After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughters expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife is cheating on him with their nextdoor neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store the place is burgled by two smalltime thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves.

Review

Saw this film as the first part of a double feature with the far more anticipated Shutter Island following so my attention was only half there. That's about all the attention I needed though as it's a typical buddy cop movie through and through. Not that I expected anything different mind you.

The whole reason I and likely 90% of the audience were there was for Tracy Morgan. And it was a Ȭlassic" Tracy Morgan performance by which I mean he's his usual offkilter self some of his scenes work well and some of them fall flat on their face in awkward silence.

A 50% success rate is more than I can say for Bruce Willis though who looked so disinterested I was half expecting him to break character at any moment and announce he had to leave the set because he had a plane to catch for another movie he was filming.

The supporting cast of the underrated Sean William Scott and Jason Lee were their usually amusing selves while the Latino gang villains led by Guillermo D໚z of The Shield and Weeds fame are absurdly over the top and clichຝ almost to the point of offensiveness.

It's a movie you'll probably see on cable while nursing a hangover one morning or something you watch on a plane because it's light and there aren't many better choices. Hard to recommend it past that.