A.C.’s Review: Months ago when the trailer for this movie first appeared I thought it looked like it could be pretty funny. Finally the release date came and it was in theaters but I found myself in no rush to see it. In fact the more I thought about it I had a feeling that I knew how the movie was going to play out. There would be a love interest and I knew there would be problems with the love interest when she found out they weren’t real cops. I also knew there would be a scenario where they would have to save real cops thus gaining their respect. All came true of course…the only thing I didn’t see was one of the cops would have a child as a friend. I should have seen that trope coming.
So the long and short
of it…two down on their luck Midwest transplants to California start
masquerading as cops when they see the respect and women it can get them.
Shortly they run afoul of some sort of
Russian mob trafficking in guns stolen from police weapons lockers. All
this leads to the love interest being threatened and having to save a real cop
just like I predicted.
Also there is a
bizarre subplot of the guys doing a stake out in a woman’s apartment and the
woman is trying to seduce one of the cops and he’s into it. The “joke” supposedly
here is that the cop is only attracted to older woman. So according to
Hollywood a 40 year old woman is old and he should not be attracted to her.
The only surprise was
that the true love interest (a waitress in a coffee shop being fleeced in a
protection racket by the Russian mob)
went to the African American fake cop played by Damon Wayans Jr. because usually he would have the funny side kick
role but he was more of a straight man.
All predictable and
not very funny.
Best Scene: The fake cops
attacked by a naked Sumo wrestler.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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