Saturday 30 August 2014

Film Review: Let's Be Cop's

Genre:  Comedy

Cert: 15A (16+)

Director: Luke Greenfield

Screen writer: Luke Greenfield, Nicholas Thomas 

Starring: Jake Johnson , Damon Wayans Jr. , Rob Riggle , Nina Dobrev , James D'Arcy , Keegan-Michael Key , Andy Garcia, Tom Mardirosian ,   Natasha Leggero , Rebecca Koon , Joshua Ormond , L. Warren Young , Nelson Bonilla , Brian Oerly

Running time: 104 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: A fully nude man attacks a man dressed as a police officer and we see the man's bare chest, abdomen, legs, back buttocks and scrotum (the man's genitals are covered by a roll of fat in the front; he knocks the other man down and crawls over him, dragging his genitals over his face and head before tackling the man.

Women wear low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage in several scenes.

A man and a woman kiss; the woman removes her dress and we see her bare back and shoulders. No actual nudity at all is shown of the woman, not even her breasts. The man briefly reacts to seeing her nude and he asks her to put her dress back on and they kiss again (no sex is implied).

A man kisses a woman and then drops her to the floor (we hear a thud).

A woman invites two men into her apartment and she strikes sexually suggestive poses and makes suggestive remarks in a few scenes (we see cleavage and bare legs); she is shown eating a lollipop suggestively.

Two men dressed in police uniforms go into a dance club and are pulled into a back room where several women cheer them on to dance and strip for them; the two men dance and one thrusts on a woman's lap while three women grab at him and the other man opens his shirt (we see his bare chest and abdomen) and the women say "Ewww."

Men and women dance in a club scene where women wear cleavage revealing tops and tight-fitting dresses.

A man dressed in a police uniform makes five men perform a sobriety test that includes suggestive hips thrusting.

A man makes a sexually explicit remark to a woman and she leaves the room.

A woman tells two men that she once "Did a three-way with 2 paramedics."

Two women argue about one woman stealing the other woman's boyfriend and some suggestive text messages are read out loud.

A man talks about having done a genital herpes ad and we see a clip where he says, "I have genital herpes."

Violence & Gore: A man is shot in the chest by another man with a shotgun and the injured man falls out of a window (the injured man was wearing a bulletproof vest); he lands on a dumpster and runs away as the original shooter and several others shoot at him and chase him.

A man with a gun barges into a meeting room and shoots at a man; other people in the room scream and duck as the man shot at runs away and jumps over a railing to the ground below and he runs away.

A man points a gun at another man tied to a table and we hear a gunshot before the gunman falls dead on the man on the table (he screams and tries to push him off).

Two men dressed in police uniforms hide as another man with a gun shoots around a room; one of the two men is shot in the arm and falls to the floor; one man tackles another man and they fight while another man shoots and hits one man who stumbles to the floor and the other man is shot in the back (we see no blood from the bullet wound and two of the men have blood on their faces).

Profanity:  34 F-words and its derivatives

2 obscene hand gestures (i.e. middle finger)

56 scatological terms (i.e. shit, piss)

29 anatomical terms (i.e. ass, dick, tits)

27 mild obscenities (i.e. boobs, hell, damn)

8 exclamations (shut up)

2 religious profanities (i.e. goddamn)

5 religious exclamations (i.e. Jesus, Oh My God, Oh God)

name-calling (ball hog, loser, downer, idiot, stupid pigs, crazy, weird, psycho magnet, devil's nephew, terrible looking people, gross)

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man hands another man a crack pipe and the man smokes from it (he is shown to have double vision afterwards)

Several men smoke a marijuana cigarette on a side-walk and two men dressed as police officers take the cigarette and smoke it.

We see beer bottles on a table in a restaurant but do not see anyone drinking.

A man dressed in a police uniform searches a vehicle where he finds a bottle of bourbon that he drinks from.

A man drinks a beer at home.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Nothing really intense or frightening  If this film had less language it would have been rated (12A)
Recommended Age: 16+



Story: It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighbourhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Likes : First thing First don't be a dumb ass & try this in the film for real thinking it would be cool or funny, the law is real & you will serve 7 to maybe 8 years in federal prison for impersonation a police officer im not joking around (it is illegal ) .As for the film it has its moments, when I saw the trailers for it it looked pretty funny. But this movie has committed one cardinal sins in any comedy film and that is with all the trailers and TV spots they pretty much show you all the funny moments in the film which ruins the film funny moments when watching it.
 I don't understand why the movie companies keep doing this but they really need to watch what they put in trailers & TV spots im aware they need to sell the film but i feel it can be done better so not to show all the film entertainment.
 Take notes from some of the more successful R rated comedies like Ted, Paul etc. where you don't have to show every single funny moment in your trailer to get people to come in or show us some of the scenes that maybe didn't make it into the movie, this is why when watching the movie you find it funny.
 Jake Johnson , Damon Wayans From the Series (Girl next door Jess) Try the best with the comedy, although a little over acting which for these guys just didn't work all to well, because i find the only actors to get away with over acting are the late (Robin Williams R.I.P & Jim Carrey), but they did OK in other area's.
 Nina Dobrev i feel was put in just for eye candy because her involvement in this film wasn't real much, i feel this is don't to bad scribe writing for her because she seem a very talented actress.
To me this film felt like a straight to DVD film instead of a cinema release to be-honest, it wasn't bad but waste great so many flaws lets this film down.

Dislikes : The action scene didn't feel natural, it felt like they were staged, Most of the jokes were funny but other just completely fell flat just wasn't funny, this film did feel like the funny concept was force & tried to hard to be funny, it felt like they tried to go with the slight concept like national security it kind of failed on this point.This film had potential to be funny but sadly this just wasn't funny at all.
  Andy Garcia brilliant actor but i felt this role was bad for him, because his character just was written well in to the story felt more of a cameo role which was predictable.Sadly this is a film i would wait for the dvd or Rent it from your local DVD store or red-box/ netfex's really.


Overall : Some funny jokes but fall flat, Acting was ok but could of been funnier

Rating: 3.7 out of 5 for entertainment / 5.6 out of 10 for Comedy / storyline




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