Cop Out (2010) R

Despite getting absolutely thrashed by critics, I decided to give Cop Out a chance. Ughhh...I should've listened. Despite having an impressive cast and a director who knows what he's doing, in Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Zack and Miri Make a Porno), this film is a dud. The laughs are scarce and the whole thing is very forgettable. It's stars Bruce Willis (Live Free or Die Hard, Surrogates) and Tracy Morgan (Death at a Funeral), of course. They are perhaps the worst cops in movie history. They are clumsy, stupid, can't aim, and would be killed in record time in real life. But nonetheless, we have to watch them make horrible decision after horrible decision, over and over and over and over again. Hooray!!

Jimmy Monroe (Willis) and Paul Hodges (Morgan) have been partners for nine years. They lose a perp and are suspended indefinitely, without pay. Jimmy's daughter Ava (Michelle Trachtenberg) is about to get married and the wedding will cost over $40,000, so he needs money. Her step dad Ray (Jason Lee) offers to pay for it, but Jimmy won't let that pass. So Jimmy plans on paying for the entire wedding with a baseball card...yeah. They head to a card store and try to get some money for it. While they're there, the place gets robbed by Dave (Seann William Scott). He takes all the cash in the building and the baseball card. He later sells the card to a drug lord named Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz). So, they strike a deal with Poh. They must find Poh Boy's stolen Mercedes-Benz and he will return the stolen card .

They find the car, but in the trunk is a young lady (Ana de la Reguera). This throws a wrench into the whole plan. It turns out she has a flash drive that Poh Boy desperately wants. Meanwhile, Paul begins to suspect his wife Debbie (Rashida Jones) is having an affair. He goes to extreme measures to find out. Adam Brody (Jennifer's Body, Grind) and Kevin Pollack (The Usual Suspects, House Arrest) are also in the mix. They play the reliable cops on the force. They too, are terrible at their job. They hate each other, but the four must join forces to take down the powerful Poh Boy. The whole thing comes down to a huge shootout at the dealers house. The end.

The opening isn't terrible, but it gets old fast. Seann William Scott (American Pie, Role Models) is the only thing keeping this film from being the absolute worst movie of the year. Everybody else involved is at their worst, as far as I'm concerned. The storyline is brutal, the acting is absurd, the characters are one-dimensional, and it's just plain not funny. It's basically an unfunny version of The Other Guys.
D+