Cop Out (2010– 107 mins) Willis, T. Morgan Directed by Kevin Smith.  

    Ok I will admit it, I am a huge Kevin Smith guy. I love all the old Smith genre (Clerks I and II, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back etc) and his non Smith type stuff as well (cept maybe JErsey Girl). He just has a way about his writing and directing. The writing is spot on the dialogue is always hilarious, and the story always has a certain way of tying it all up in a nice package, but in a twisty way. With Cop out he goes more in the buddy cop type movie in the vein of the old movies like Running Scared (Crystal/Hines) and Tango and Cash. Those were great examples of fun get the bad guys but be aloof and funny while doing it movies.

   It starts out in a real typical way, we start with a real funny scene where the 2 good guys interrogate a bad guy but a under-cover op goes wrong and they get suspended. So then the real bad gang guys get up to no good even worse. So it’s up to Willis and Morgan (the dynamic buddy duo in question) to do what they can to foil the bad guys and make their personal lives right. It doesn’t break new ground but it really doesn’t have to it’s a good movie on it’s own and Sean William Scott adds some great comic relief to a movie that’s already a comedy, as weird as that may sound!

 It kind of reminds me of the more mainstream (and less campy) movie comparison to Travolta’s From Paris with Love. Both good movies and fun, but Cop out is more of the movie you will want to catch each time it’s on cable or basic cable then the other.

   I have one beef with the movie, and I guess it’s more of a beef with Tracy Morgan himself. It seems Morgan these days is just trying to either be too fricking wacky or he has become waaayyyy too full of himself. See, to me, his character on 30 rock is a satire of the Comedian who has no idea how to act, but it seems he is trying to bring himself more and more to be like that himself. If you look at his schtick in real life and the press and movies such as this you will see what I mean. My beef then here in the movie is Morgan and having to have his 20 lines of ranting or wackiness in some scenes. We get it you are just as funny as Martin Lawrence you don’t have to TRY and show us this is true. Too many times in this movie (and the next one on the Review today) we have scenes that should just have been over after a few jokes but we have to sit thru another Morgan tantrum/monologue first. But like some other movies this is just a small gripe and prob more of a personal one I have these days with him then the movie itself.

Verdict–> Go ahead and rent this one if you see it in the Red Box. It’s a welcome addition to a sea of crap that has been in there of late and I recomend it to everyone. Good popcorn and laughs movie.

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