Cop Out

Seen at: Cinemark, Ft. Collins, March 1 at 1:20 pm

I saw this early in the afternoon, on a day on which I would see three different screenings. As the first course of three, tt was light and fun, especially for a police drama. It was a good way to kick off a day of moviegoing.

The plot is completely out of the 1980s buddy cop movies. Kevin Smith basically made a homage movie to the genre, one in which Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan do their respective schticks, which they do to perfection, as Brooklyn cops (two movies in one month with that theme).

There is a enough fresh post-millennial material in it to make the story worth following. As such it did not advance the art of moviemaking forward much, but, well, so what. Sometimes movies that tread water artistically are the most fun to watch.

The thing I took most from the film is how much the portrayal of Brooklyn has changed over the last four decades in movies, with a huge run lately---The Wackness, Notorious, Two Lovers, Precious, and Brooklyn's Finest among them. Throw in Tyson as documentary as well.