Cop Out (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Kevin Smith (Dogma, Red State)
	Actors:  Bruce Willis (Die Hard 1-5, Looper), Tracy Morgan, Juan Carlos Hernández, Sean William Scott (Dude where is my Car?, American Pie)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 23.06.2014, SD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Two average cops, old partners in the Police (Willis & Morgan) are suspended after screwing up an drug bust. They keep on their work anyway to find the baseball card one of them was stolen and that would help him pay for his daughter's wedding.
Review: I had this movie on my Maxdome.de list for a while and only now learned it had been directed by Kevin Smith, so I watched it in preparation to the NIFFF14 where the director will be present. Until now I had only seen movies that Smith wrote and directed, and it is easy to notice the difference with this only he only directed: the dialogs are flat and the jokes not funny, even if they are crude and could be assimilated to his usual "style". The only moments that made me laugh are the ones with Sean William Scott playing an unbearable Yamakasi thief. The movie is not badly shot but the story is just not interesting and too long. I don't know why Smith accepted to shoot this movie, maybe he saw a comic potential that never materialized, or he just needed to pay some bills. Anyway after this, he promised himself never to direct anymore a movie written by somebody else. That tells you something about how he lived the experience...
Rating: 3 /10