There's that old movie cliche about "good cop-bad cop" where one partner is the nice guy, earning the trust of the suspect and being an all around nice guy. The other is an asshole. Cop Out takes that cliche and mixes it together with a bunch of other cliches to give a weird homage to 1980's cop/buddy movies.
Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is your typical cop movie first husband. What that means is that the second husband must be rich and able to do everything he can not because of his wallet. That is movie rule number one. Movie rule number two is that his partner Paul (Tracy Morgan) always wants to prove himself to Jimmy as a bad ass, but fails miserably, usually causing more harm than good. Things get bad when Jimmy and Paul are suspended, leading Jimmy to sell his fathers prized 1952 Topps baseball card to finance his daughter's wedding, meaning that his dad must have helped conceive Jimmy when said father was fourteen. In the process of getting it sold, Jimmy is robbed while Paul obsesses outside that his wife is diddling the neighbor. So the quest is on for the baseball card which just so happens ends up in the hands of the same drug dealer that Jimmy and Paul are trying to take down. Talk about a coincidence!
Directed by Kevin Smith but not written, so don't expect that witty Smith banter between actors. As I said earlier this is more a homage to 1980's films like 48 Hrs. and Fletch, going so far as bringing in Harold Faltermeyer to do the score. If you don't know who that is, Google it and you will then know why I even brought him up. Cop Out is an OK film if you go in without any real expectations. It's not horrible, but it's not earth shattering either. It's a good movie to see when you've seen everything else.
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