My Movie Review: Cop Out

My Movie Review: Cop Out

1.5/5

Where do I start... Cop Out is a failure. Director Kevin

Smith makes his first flop. Kevin Smith recently tweeted to

a fan regarding the movie that the negative critic reviews

were because "the critics reviewed him not the movie." So

i'm not going to sit here and complain about how Kevin

Smith could do better, honestly we know he can so i'll leave

his name out of the rest of this post. The thing I really didn't

like about Cop Out besides the fact that it was an unfunny

comedy is the formula. The concept here was to make a

parody of old cop shows and use a mismatched couple

of actors to be funny. The story itself is simple, almost hits

the originality mark a couple times, but ultimately fails

to appeal to any true comical emotion. A "b" story but

it could've worked. I did laugh a couple times, but it's been

an hour since i've seen the movie and I wouldn't be able

to tell you any of the jokes i've laughed at. In one year time

I will not remember a single thing that happened in this film.

Next subject, the acting. Bruce Willis is that actor with

potential, unfortunately I don't ever think he will meet his

potential and he is definitely not going to find it doing

comedy. Tracy Morgan is simply not funny. His over the top

stupid humor is held back in this sometimes but he still

keeps his irritating tone, the same feeling you get when

someone tells a really unfunny joke and looks around the

room for people laughing when no one is. The music in this movie is very 80's cop show, and you can tell it's

meant to be that way, if only maybe they stuck to the parodying of cop shows it would be funny. The story

is predictable and simply not entertaining. This will be the first Kevin Smith film that I will not recommend

I do not see this as a Kevin Smith film, this is just a speed bump, hopefully he won't sell out on us like this

again.