5 Things You Should Know About . . . Cop Out

1. Kevin Smith did not write this movie, so don't expect a Kevin Smith film.  Yes, it's dirty, but it doesn't have that "colorful" dialogue that we know and love.

2.  The funniest parts of this movie were represented in the red band trailer.  If you aren't amused by it, you won't be amused by the movie.

3.  This is not a buddy-cop movie parody (for that, see National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon) and it's not even a comedy with a little police action thrown in.  It's a standard action comedy, and unfortunately, it doesn't do either action or comedy all that well.  It's almost like a lesser version of Hollywood Homicide, if you can believe (or accept) that.


4. There are three plots, and all of them are very, very uninteresting: (1) Bruce Willis needs to sell a baseball card to finance his daughter's expensive wedding, but the card gets stolen and falls into the hands of (wait for it) the Mexican gangster that they were investigating earlier in the movie! (2) Tracy Morgan thinks his wife is cheating on him; and (3) some sort of weird Mexican druglord, gang-related, bank-account-stealing plot that I found incoherent.  Unfortunately, the last hour spends most of its time on (3) and is therefore snoresville.  [There actually was someone in the theater snoring loudly -- it was a midnight show, but still.]


5. Seann William Scott stands out (an underrated talent, in my estimation), though his role is small and his screen time is short.  Tracy Morgan's rambling garbage-talk saves the movie from being a total waste (when you can understand what he's saying), but you can just watch 30 Rock episodes instead and you'll be entertained much, much more.