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60A movie that makes little sense, is dumb when it's not being stupid and yet is still at times laugh-out-loud funny.
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Working with a full-on studio budget for the first time in his decade-and-a-half career, Smith is still making movies about guys just like him.
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60There is enough ridiculous fun in the Tracy Morgan- Bruce Willis pairing as two of Brooklyn's "finest" to get many of you past the squirm-inducing stuff.
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50Definitely has its amusing moments, but ultimately all that improvised shtick gets mighty tired without any real break in the nonaction.
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50If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
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50You want to cut Cop Out some slack because it's just so darn eager to please. So let's grant that it will make a reliably fun companion when it's on cable 10 times a week.
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50Cop Out seems aptly named. It's not personal. It's barely even a movie. It's a fire hydrant that the director and his stars use for exterior shots.
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50Okay, there are worse movies out there, but I'm hard-pressed to figure out why I'd waste my time and money watching something that's a half-baked retread of better movies I can stream from Netflix.
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50While the plot is as flimsy as a hooker's halter top, it's buoyed by two actors with attitude and timing.
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50Has its moments, it's also regrettably ordinary.
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50Morgan transcends the wayward silliness of Cop Out just by going for the gusto. He grabs it, and he hangs on.
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42Without that heightened racial antipathy-turned-camaraderie, there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn).
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40Flat and unfunny, this merits a second star based entirely on Scott's cameo. Kev, get thee to a typewriter. You're so much better than this.
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40An ultra-thin spliff, Cop Out never sparks, although knowing that in advance won't deter moviegoers who believe pairing Morgan & Willis with Smith equals hilarity.
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40There's precious little of that tension to be found between co-leads Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, but more than enough between director Kevin Smith and the shoddy script he's elected to take on, and neither seems willing to budge.
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38A lot of the dialogue is intended as funny, but man, is it lame.
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38Repeatedly shoots for laughs -- but ends up mostly firing blanks.
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38Director Kevin Smith's tweets, jokes and sharp commentary after being denied a seat aboard a Southwest Airlines flight because of his girth were a lot more engaging than Cop Out, his new movie.
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38It's a performance in search of a movie.
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38Cop Out is still funnier than the dreadful later Eddie Murphy cop pictures. But it feels like an homage to a period best forgotten.
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33With Cop Out, Smith works from a script other than his own for the first time--this one penned by siblings Mark and Robb Cullen--but his slack direction siphons the energy out of this tongue-in-cheek throwback to '80s mismatched-buddy comedies.
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There are a few hilarious bits, but even those are drowned out by constant gunfire and Morgan's motormouthing. Willis is going through the motions; Scott is funny, if irritating; Morgan is irritating and not so funny.
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30An equally tired and wearisome buddy-cop movie that might as well be a forgotten leftover from the era of "Turner and Hooch." Now there's a film with classic Kevin Smith scrawled all over it.
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30It's a phoned-in, gutless piece of hack work that reminds you of other, better films in the same vein.
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30Sluggish, formulaic.
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25A buddy cop film in which one of the cops continually quotes dialogue espoused by fictional cops, in everything from "Heat" to "RoboCop," and not once is it funny.
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25A soulless, witless, landfill contraption that Smith once would have mocked mercilessly.
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25Represents his (Smith) first act of cinematic cynicism, his first crime against his own talent. With this action comedy, he has given us 110 worthless minutes, a bad formula movie like every other bad formula movie.
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25When your movie is nothing more than a cheap and uninteresting homage, best not to call attention to that fact with a ten minute opening scene to that effect.
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25Fails as a comedy-drama because it's neither funny nor involving. But it fails as a buddy movie because Willis and Morgan make for a dull couple.
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20Desperation oozes from every frame of Cop Out, which front-loads its best joke -- then spends the rest of its running time endlessly spinning its wheels.
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10Tedious to watch and torture to listen to.
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0With so much junk littering the screen these days, the movie business looks like a garbage strike, and it's beginning to smell, too. The latest pollution from the celluloid dumpster is sub-mental horror called Cop Out.
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0Cop Out wouldn't be as disappointing if it hadn't been made by Smith, but for those who dig the vulgar wit of his early, funny films, it's not just stupid, it's sad. At least the worst film of the year also bears its most forgettable title.
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0Nothing to see here, keep moving.
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