Cop Out [Blu-ray]

Director: Kevin Smith Kevin Smith

Overview

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan team up for the Warner Bros. police buddy movie Cop Out in this Kevin Smith-directed production. From a script by Robb and Mark Cullen, the picture focuses on a detective duo who investigate the disappearance of a baseball card.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/06/2015
UPC:	0883929523542
Original Release:	2010
Source:	Warner Home Video
Language:	English
Sales rank:	24,168

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bruce Willis	Jimmy
Tracy Morgan	Paul
Adam Brody	Barry Mangold
Kevin Pollak	Hunsaker
Seann William Scott	Dave
Guillermo Diaz	Poh Boy
Jason Lee	Roy
Michelle Trachtenberg	Ava
Juan Carlos Hernandez	Raul
Cory Fernandez	Juan
Jason Hurt	Youth 1
Jeff Lima	Youth 2
Alberto Bonilla	Julio
Robinson Aponte	Banger 1
Jeremy Dash	Banger 2
Mando Alvarado	Mexican Man 1
Francie Swift	Pam
Rashida Jones	Debbie
Keith Joe Dick	Big Al
Ernie O'Donnell	Masked Man 1,Masked Man #1
Jim Norton	George
Susie Essman	Laura
John D'Leo	Kevin
Adrian Martinez	Tino
Marcus Morton	Tommy
Fred Armisen	Russian Lawyer
Hannah Ware	Russian Lawyer's Wife
Ana de la Reguera	Gabriela
Ephraim Lopez	Busboy
Mark Consuelos	Manuel
Jayce Bartok	Eddie
Larissa Drekonja	Hourly Housekeeper
Jacinto Taras Riddick	Darnell
Jeff Chena	Cop
Jordan Carlos	Eric
Robb Cullen	Coroner,Captain Romans
Raymond Quinlan	Priest,Groom,Priest
Michael A. Pitt	Henry, the Neighbor
Harold Faltermeyer	Composer

Technical Credits

Mark Cullen

Kevin Smith	Director
Mark Cullen	Screenwriter,Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Marc E. Platt	Producer,Producer
Polly Johnsen	Producer
Michael Tadross	Producer
Adam Siegel	Executive Producer
Jennifer Euston	Casting
Jery Hewitt	Stunts
Brendan Quinlan	Key Grip
Jeff Brink	Special Effects
Bill Anagnos	Stunts
Bob Beher	Sound Effects
Tim Chau	Sound Effects
Linda Di Franco	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

When you hear that the 2010 buddy cop film Cop Out was directed by Kevin Smith, it frames the movie in a certain light. Certainly, you imagine, this must be a postmodern take on the genre -- a tribute or a parody, some kind of meta commentary on the B-movies that stoned Gen-Xers remember catching on cable throughout their youths. And to a certain extent, it is. The film opens with odd-couple NYPD partners Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan), interrogating a suspect almost exclusively through the marathon use of movie quotes, with a background conversation about the definition of the word "homage." So clearly, the tone is meant to be self-aware. The cheekiness also comes to the surface through a silly retro synth score, and a script full of every stock exchange, plot turn, and cliché in the book. But the thing is, self-awareness isn't the same thing as irony, and outside the fact that Morgan actually quotes Die Hard to Willis in that initial dialogue, Cop Out isn't really an exercise in postmodernism. For the most part, it just follows the two heroes on your standard series of crime-comedy adventures as they go rogue following an unjust suspension for their wacky antics, and spend roughly an hour and a half tracking down a rare baseball card that's fallen into the hands of a Mexican drug kingpin. Willis squints, Morgan acts crazy, and Smith leaves his stamp on the whole thing with a greater-than-average number of dick jokes. In this sense, Cop Out is totally passable. To contrast: When Quentin Tarantino says he's made a kung fu movie or a men-on-a-mission movie, you know that's not really true. You know that what he's really done is used those old films as a thematic jumping-off point to make an entirely distinct creative breed of movie -- one that places a ridiculously higher importance on artistic caliber than the fun-and-games fare he's name-dropping. Whereas, in Cop Out's case, things are much more transparent; this isn't a movie about crappy police comedies, it is a crappy police comedy -- ideally sandwiched in between Loose Cannons and Freebie and the Bean on a Sunday afternoon, when the viewer is high, and expectations are low.