MOVIE REVIEW - Cop Out

When you see the trailer for the new Bruce Willis action - comedy Cop Out, you might think this could be a pretty good movie. Might be some fun here, and this could be a pretty good night at the movies. Well, it's not Gone With The Wind.

Cop Out stars Willis, and Tracy Morgan as two cops in New York that have been partnered up for 9 years. They do things "their" way. You know, renegade detectives with no rules and not very well liked by their superiors. Now that the basic stage is set let's talk about the actual story. Well, that's a completely different challenge.

Cop Out is what you might think it is. If you've seen the commercials, you've pretty much seen the movie. It comes off as a series of scenes that are are sort of like small comedy skits designed for big laughs. They are then pasted back to back thinking you'll just giggle from one sketch to the next. And in fairness, there are some laughs here. Willis and Morgan do pull off some fun and there is some amusement here. But after you realize there is only one joke being told, it gets old in a hurry.

There really is no story per say. But what there is, are a few laughs, a few chuckles, a bunch of gun play violence and a whole boatload of real bad language. And I mean all the words are said time and time again. The constant use of huge profanity gets very fatiguing after a while, but this is a large, new Hollywood trend over the past few years. Cop Out is made for young adults, and Hollywood must honestly believe that the young people today must want to hear incessant horrible language, because Cop Out is not the first comedy to go down this road.

Sad part is that Morgan at times can really be a funny guy But he's asked to cuss a lot and say the same things over and over, and it sells his talent short. Willis, with a shaved head, is somewhat of a parody of himself from the Die Hard series. He is who he is. Toss in a hip soundtrack and an underwhelming supporting cast, and Cop Out staggers around for an a hour and forty minutes, then falls over at last to it's eternal resting place.

There will be those who howl at Cop Out, as any movie can somehow find it's audience. This could have been so much better if it had been bold enough to try something new. But It doesn't. It sells out to cheap attempts at cheap laughs. For many Cop Out, will strike out!