Cop Out (2010)

Director: Kevin Smith

Writers: Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen

Composer: Harold Faltermeyer

Starring: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Sean Cullen, Kevin Pollak, Adam Brody, Jason Lee, Rashida Jones, Seann William Scott, Fred Armisen, Guillermo Diaz

More info: IMDb

Tagline: Rock out with your Glock out

Plot: After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves.

My rating: 6/10

Will I watch it again?  No.

I remember hearing about this before filming when Smith said the title was A COUPLE OF DICKS.  That sounded like a Kevin Smith title if there ever was one.  This is is sole director-for-hire gig and I'm sure it soured him to A) do that again and B) ever work with Bruce Willis again.  The latter is well documented.  Google it and prepare for some fucked up shit about Willis.  Even as a longtime Smith fan, the word of mouth was so bad about this, not to mention what Smith has said about it, that it took me over seven years to get to it.  It's OK.  There are touches of Smith here and there but it doesn't feel like a Smith movie.  I guess you could say that Smith succeeded in making a typical Hollywood action comedy.  Most people, it seems, were less than impressed to the point of deriding the film.  I'm sure many of them haven't seen it.  It's not a bad film but it's not good enough to recommend and it's certainly not a good film for the standard Smith has kept.  I really dig the guy.  Kevin Pollak is good and plays well with others (I'm sure that last bit is a bullet point on his resume).  The Warner Bros. DVD has a nice anamorphic widescreen print and the extras you get are 11 minutes of deleted scenes and that's it.