COP-OUT "Rock out with your Glock out"

I was lucky enough to attend an advanced screening of Cop-Out this week. I am predisposed to Kevin Smiths usual trash filled films and I totally love every ounce of garbage that comes out of his characters mouths! Cop-Out however, was NOT written by K Smith, and guess what? I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Alot like Shutter Island, this film has a lot of buzz going on about it, but not for the same reasons as Shutter Island. The verbal holocaust lies in who else? Kevin Smith! Poor Robb and Mark Cullen who actually DID write the screenplay...or maybe not, maybe K Smith's heat will turn out to be for the best. If you think about it, if the film does well, the Cullen's (Sorry Twi-hards, wrong Cullen's) can quite possibly thank the slack administered to Smith's ego for getting movie goers into see the film. On the other hand, if the film tanks, they can blame the verbal diarrhea floating around Smith. I won't get into all the rumors and specs surround the so called "timing" involved with the premier of the film, google it, it's there!

I was thoroughly entertained throughout the movie. First off, the film looked like it was just a blast to film, which always gets me pumped and excited.

EXHIBIT A


The film opens with a flippin' hysterical "homage" to crime based cinematography. It was brilliant, Willis and Morgan had the theater in stitches. The film has hysterical one liners and pokes fun at Willis as well as has some classic Smith references. Some of the Smith references made me wonder how many people in the packed theater would actually "get" them...let me tell you, A LOT! Was the film "authentic" and/or believable? Hell to the no! I mean come on, can you take this seriously??



The reviews for the film that I have looked at, not so good...

EXHIBIT B

"Cop Out" is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis. SOURCE-Yahoo Movies

EXHIBIT C

"Cop Out is pretty funny...for the first 20 minutes. After that, it totally disintegrates into a generic buddy movie that could have had any two actors in the lead and gotten the same results."

EXHIBIT D

Cop Out fizzles out once the action scenes kick in. In fact, it might have been a better film had the action scenes been booted in favor of more time spent concentrating on the human elements. It also might have worked better had the two leads, Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, had even the tiniest bit of chemistry. They don't, and the film suffers for it. SOURCE-Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog

EXHIBIT E

An homage to the '80s buddy-cop comedy, right down to the Harold Faltermeyer synth score, the extensively ad-libbed "Cop Out" doesn't cop out on talking the talk, but it falls down on the job whenever it comes to walking the walk. SOURCE-Hollywood Reporter

AND EXHIBIT F U

He didn’t write it as he does with the rest of his movies, however, and that appears to be part of the problem. (Referring to K Smith) SOURCE-Personal Money Store

Man, the Cullen's can't seem to get a break, I mean, first the movie gets bashed, Smith gets a bunch of hell, then they bash the Cullen's writing...which by the way, I thought it was well written and really funny! Definitely a movie to go to with a group of friends. The one thing that has gotten all around positive feedback was the NY premier, of course star studded....




It looks like the two stars had chemistry to me...I totally object to Rebecca's Hollywood Movies Blog in that aspect.

Listen, I think people forget what this type of movie is a platform for...it's not chopping for an Oscar, it's not a thought provoking tale with a plot twist or a surprise ending...lets can the BS and remember that this is a film which is meant for FUN, Smith doesn't take the crap thrown at him too seriously, and that's the point of a film like this. It's a raunchy type comedy...If you want a few hours of funny, entertaining BS go see this film. Willis and Morgan are hysterical together, Michelle Trachtenberg was also very funny and don't be offended by the fact that her humor lies in a language barrier, and Sean William Scott was ridiculously funny!
And hey, Nanny Cams are always funny right?