 | Watch Let's Be Cops (2014) online Run time: 104 min Rating: 6.8 Genres: Comedy Stars: Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Rob Riggle |
| Storyline It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line. Written by 20th Century Fox | |
| Plot Keywords: party, mobster, police officer, written by director, raised middle finger | |
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| Box Office Budget: $17,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: $17,813,722 (USA) (15 August 2014) Gross: $46,085,113 (USA) (25 August 2014) | |
Don't misinterpret the wow; it was not the good kind. I think most have stated that most of the "funny" parts were shown in the trailer and that is true, but the worst part is when they don't show a part of the movie that was shown in the trailer. That happens in this movie. They reel you in to see the movie based on the trailer and what is shown in the trailer didn't get shown on the big screen. It is just down right criminal and we keep paying for it and they are laughing at us all the way to the bank.
ReplyDeleteI have sworn off professional sports because they are such opportunists and have spoiled the tradition of the game. It is getting really close to being the same for Hollywood. The only redeeming part of this movie is the end; which is quite climatic, but past that it is a mediocre movie at best. Place it at the end of your "to see" DVD list.
The movie tells about Ryan and Justin, two underachieving best friends with less to be proud of. Having such a life doesn't deter them on going to a college reunion party where they dress as cops due to mistaking it as a costume party. After the party they continue on enjoying being cops, pulling a stunt on Mossi's men, real mobsters. Ryan gets more into it while Justin's nerves come and go on it, but he eventually joins Ryan. Having almost get discovered when 'assisting' real cops, Officer Segars and his partner, on a code 6 one night, they continue on even to investigating Mossi and his men. They get a perp to 'cooperate' and sneak into one of Mossi's party. Later on it turns out that Mossi's dealing with a police detective, who then finds the truth and captures Ryan.
ReplyDeleteJust as the fed up Justin re-pitches his game idea, Mossi's men storm into his ex office but he escapes. Justin manages to convince Segars to the scene so a firefight ensues between Segars and Mossi. Mossi falls back and Segars instructs Ryan and Justin to flee. But the two go back to redeem themselves. Fleeing a firefight where they helped Segars, they head to the wrong direction where they get cornered with Mossi on to them and no bullets left. Although they are wearing Kevlar vests, Justin is stunned when Mossi shots through his cover. Ryan circles back and tackles Mossi. Justin takes one of Mossi's gun and mistakenly shot Ryan clearing him from Segars' line of fire, who comes and shot Mossi down.
The story concept is quite nice. Although the basic concept of impersonating police officers are kind of plurally found in many movies nowadays, especially on comedies, I honestly don't remember the last time that concept is used to the extent of a full length movie. The story flows nicely on quite a quick pace, despite the many slowdown moments. The mood of the movie is also a well kept happy mood, maintaining the distance between laughs approximately the same.
The jokes are nice. This movie rely mainly on the mischiefs, practical jokes and pranks as the main characters enjoy their cops impersonation. There are also a few racial content jokes and one liners. Some very vulgar albeit not nude sexually suggestive scenes are present here and there, still being resented with a comedic aim. Those contents ensure an R rating for this funny entertainment.
The acting is an okay overall for me. Jake Johnson nicely maintain his character's 'can do' attitude with the least regard to the consequences. Damon Wayans Jr. on the other hand manages to pull the role of the friend fed up by guilty pleasures. It's nice to see familiar faces lighting up this movie. Big names such as action movies veteran Andy Garcia, character specialist James D'Arcy, and others like Nina Dobrev. One particular thing I like is seeing Rob Riggle here. It's like a certain comeback, or should I say payback, after I saw the Jump Street movies.
And my verdict for Let's Be Cops (2014) is a solid 6 out of 10 score and a sincere recommendation to go and see. But if you consider yourself craving more of the Jump Street movies, this one the a similarly typed comedy that you can relate to.
My Thoughts:
ReplyDeleteI was really looking forward to this movie when I saw the trailers for it. But this movie has committed one of my cardinal sins and that is with all the trailers and TV spots they pretty much show you all the funny moments in the film. That is always disappointing to me and I do not understand why the movie companies keep doing that. Take notes from some of the more successful R rated comedies where you do not have to show every single funny moment in your trailer to get people to come in or show us some of the scenes that maybe didn't make it into the movie.
The second thing that I didn't like about this movie is that even before the halfway point I knew what was going to happen with not only the two main characters but the storyline as well. I am not going to ruin anything for those that still go see it in the theaters but if you pay attention you know what is going to happen to O'Malley (Jake Johnson) and you know how the story is going to unfold.
This seems to be a recurring problem with R rated comedies, you will get like two great comedies that everyone is going to compare all other comedies that follow it and this year they happen to be Neighbors and 22 Jump Street. I do believe there is room for more great comedies especially the R rated kind but they do need to take notes from the above mentioned movies and plan accordingly.
My Recommendation:
I wish I could say go see it in theaters but sadly do not waster the money wait for the DVD.