Cop Out
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 26, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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20
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60
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
A movie that makes little sense, is dumb when it's not being stupid and yet is still at times laugh-out-loud funny. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
There is enough ridiculous fun in the Tracy Morgan- Bruce Willis pairing as two of Brooklyn's "finest" to get many of you past the squirm-inducing stuff. Read full review
60
Village VoiceKarina Longworth
Working with a full-on studio budget for the first time in his decade-and-a-half career, Smith is still making movies about guys just like him. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
While the plot is as flimsy as a hooker's halter top, it's buoyed by two actors with attitude and timing. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Cop Out seems aptly named. It’s not personal. It’s barely even a movie. It’s a fire hydrant that the director and his stars use for exterior shots. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
You want to cut Cop Out some slack because it's just so darn eager to please. So let's grant that it will make a reliably fun companion when it's on cable 10 times a week. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Has its moments, it's also regrettably ordinary. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Okay, there are worse movies out there, but I'm hard-pressed to figure out why I'd waste my time and money watching something that's a half-baked retread of better movies I can stream from Netflix. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Morgan transcends the wayward silliness of Cop Out just by going for the gusto. He grabs it, and he hangs on. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Definitely has its amusing moments, but ultimately all that improvised shtick gets mighty tired without any real break in the nonaction. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Without that heightened racial antipathy-turned-camaraderie, there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn). Read full review
40
EmpireWilliam Thomas
Flat and unfunny, this merits a second star based entirely on Scott’s cameo. Kev, get thee to a typewriter. You’re so much better than this. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew Barker
There's precious little of that tension to be found between co-leads Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, but more than enough between director Kevin Smith and the shoddy script he's elected to take on, and neither seems willing to budge. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthy
An ultra-thin spliff, Cop Out never sparks, although knowing that in advance won’t deter moviegoers who believe pairing Morgan & Willis with Smith equals hilarity. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A lot of the dialogue is intended as funny, but man, is it lame. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Director Kevin Smith's tweets, jokes and sharp commentary after being denied a seat aboard a Southwest Airlines flight because of his girth were a lot more engaging than Cop Out, his new movie. Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
It's a performance in search of a movie. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Repeatedly shoots for laughs -- but ends up mostly firing blanks. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
Cop Out is still funnier than the dreadful later Eddie Murphy cop pictures. But it feels like an homage to a period best forgotten. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
With Cop Out, Smith works from a script other than his own for the first time--this one penned by siblings Mark and Robb Cullen--but his slack direction siphons the energy out of this tongue-in-cheek throwback to ’80s mismatched-buddy comedies. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorAndy Klein
There are a few hilarious bits, but even those are drowned out by constant gunfire and Morgan’s motormouthing. Willis is going through the motions; Scott is funny, if irritating; Morgan is irritating and not so funny. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
It’s a phoned-in, gutless piece of hack work that reminds you of other, better films in the same vein. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
Sluggish, formulaic. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
An equally tired and wearisome buddy-cop movie that might as well be a forgotten leftover from the era of "Turner and Hooch." Now there's a film with classic Kevin Smith scrawled all over it. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
A buddy cop film in which one of the cops continually quotes dialogue espoused by fictional cops, in everything from "Heat" to "RoboCop," and not once is it funny. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A soulless, witless, landfill contraption that Smith once would have mocked mercilessly. Read full review
25
PremiereNick Starkey
When your movie is nothing more than a cheap and uninteresting homage, best not to call attention to that fact with a ten minute opening scene to that effect. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Represents his (Smith) first act of cinematic cynicism, his first crime against his own talent. With this action comedy, he has given us 110 worthless minutes, a bad formula movie like every other bad formula movie. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
Fails as a comedy-drama because it’s neither funny nor involving. But it fails as a buddy movie because Willis and Morgan make for a dull couple. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Desperation oozes from every frame of Cop Out, which front-loads its best joke -- then spends the rest of its running time endlessly spinning its wheels. Read full review
10
NPRJeannette Catsoulis
Tedious to watch and torture to listen to. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Nothing to see here, keep moving. Read full review
0
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Cop Out wouldn't be as disappointing if it hadn't been made by Smith, but for those who dig the vulgar wit of his early, funny films, it's not just stupid, it's sad. At least the worst film of the year also bears its most forgettable title. Read full review
0
ObserverRex Reed
With so much junk littering the screen these days, the movie business looks like a garbage strike, and it’s beginning to smell, too. The latest pollution from the celluloid dumpster is sub-mental horror called Cop Out. Read full review
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