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Cop Out

R

Released Feb 26, 2010

1h 43m

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Action

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18%

Tomatometer

163 Reviews

39%

Audience Score

250,000+ Ratings

Veteran detective Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) needs money to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, so he decides it's time to sell his prized '52 Pafko baseball card. Before he can turn it into cash, it's stolen, and Jimmy and his partner, Paul (Tracy Morgan), confront a gangster who is obsessed with sports memorabilia. First, Jimmy and Paul have to rescue a beautiful murder-witness who has the key to a fortune in offshore bank accounts.

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Critics Consensus

Cop Out is a cliched buddy action/comedy that suffers from stale gags and slack pacing.

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

In all, though, Cop Out is not much cop.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 23, 2018

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

Desperation oozes from every frame.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Laremy Legel

Film.com

Joyless, pointless, humorless.

Rated: D

May 6, 2011

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Bruce Willis has teamed with a fast-talking Black comedian in a violent, funny and gloriously R-rated throwback to ’80s buddy-cop action films. That movie was 1991’s "The Last Boy Scout" with Damon Wayans. "Cop Out" is a shockingly inept endurance test.

Rated: 1/4

Nov 20, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

So one-dimensional and inadequately made that it’s hard to recommend to anyone except the most devoted fan of the talent involved.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 22, 2023

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

The limit of repugnance… in its own way, it's also a punishment. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 20, 2022

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alan g

Bad movie. Who thought Tracy Morgan could act anyway? Bruce Willis phones it in. And they made a sequel?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/18/24

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jacob b

The one movie Kevin Smith directed but didn't write and...it really shows. There's none of his wit, enjoyable discussions on how there's no way everyone on Death Star II was a bad guy or ability to provoke thoughts amidst all the swearing. He's very much directing somebody else's film whose script is filled with lame pop-culture references and tons of buddy cop clichés. Lethal Weapon or Hot Fuzz, this is not (I've never seen The Other Guys). Cop Out is not good, in case you couldn't tell. It's an unfunny, by-the-numbers action comedy whose leads lack any chemistry and whose best jokes were all in the trailers, naturally. Which include Seann William Scott, by the way. Yes, Stifler is in most of the marketing but he's nowhere near as prominent in the film as the trailers might have you believe. If you think he's going to be the Joe Pesci to our two heroes' Riggs and Murtaugh, you've got another thing coming. And the gags that hit only made me giggle rather than LOL like in the View Askewniverse or the retconned-into-the-'verse Zack and Miri. The set-up seems okay and there could've been something decent in here, especially with a rather dark villain but Cop Out sadly missed the mark. An unfunny, directed-on-autopilot, awkwardly-placed buddy cop film whose behind-the-scenes drama is arguably more memorable than the movie itself. Can't say I blame Smith for abandoning the mainstream after this oddball in his filmography; as a director-for-hire.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

All it felt like was a ripoff off the Other Guys. Literally felt like I was watching a remake of the Other Guys but with a 1 million dollar budget instead of the 45 they claim to have used.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Podcast in Crime !

Just like with any partnership, when one partner doesn't give it everything they have, the relationship is bound to fail. Cop Out could have been something good, but because Bruce Willis phoned it in, and his character was such a wreck, unfortunately we'll have to take this movie's badge and gun. Case Closed

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/22/22

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Audience Member

I don't understand the low reviews on this movie. It is one of the funniest films I know. The cast works very well together. Not to mention there is almost no time in the movie where you are not laughing. I have seen this master piece over 50 times and yet to get sick of it. Please disregard some of the negative reviews, and give this movie a shot... you will not regret it!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Henry R

Hands down one of the best comedy movies of all time

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/21/20

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Synopsis

Veteran detective Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) needs money to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, so he decides it's time to sell his prized '52 Pafko baseball card. Before he can turn it into cash, it's stolen, and Jimmy and his partner, Paul (Tracy Morgan), confront a gangster who is obsessed with sports memorabilia. First, Jimmy and Paul have to rescue a beautiful murder-witness who has the key to a fortune in offshore bank accounts.

Director: Kevin Smith
Producer: Marc Platt, Michael Tadross, Polly Johnsen
Screenwriter: Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Marc Platt Productions
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Brief Sexuality|Sexual References|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 26, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $44.9M
Runtime: 1h 43m

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