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None of that is in Cop Out, though: This is a throwback to films like Beverly Hills Cop and Lethal Weapon, movies in which an explosive white guy and a funny brochure printing black guy solved crimes, traded quips, chased cars, broke laws and made billions at the box office. None of that in Cop Out either, I suspect.

The movie is a kind of homage. You can tell because in an early scene, Paul (30 Rock's Tracy Morgan) tells his partner Jimmy (Bruce Willis) that he wants to question their current suspect, and that he will do it by paying homage to old movies. He then quotes lines from several films SEmD Heat, Training Day, Star Wars, Schindler's List ---- to the baffled criminal, and don't worry if you don't get them all, because Jimmy sits outside the interrogation room and says, "Heat?," or "Schindler's List?," as the occasion requires. Paul also mispronounces "homage," which is, in a way, perfect.

There's a plot here, of sorts: Jimmy, who's divorced, doesn't have the money to pay for the wedding of his daughter, and if he can't, her stepfather (Jason Lee, playing the straight guy) will do so. This would be too much for Jimmy to bear, for some reason: It's difficult to tell, because Willis's distant performance doesn't allow for much in the way of acting. The actor appears to have signed up for Cop Out by mistake, and he compensates by falling back on the default Willis expression, the smirk, to convey a variety of emotions. You'd smirk too if you were being paid for this.

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Smith has no idea how to stage any of this for laughs or excitement. He's best when he falls back on his old juvenilia: Seann William Scott steals the picture as a yappy burglar who tells knock-knock jokes and plays that game where he repeats everything you say at the same time that you say it. Scott's cockeyed grin of stupid mischief is the best thing about Cop Out. You have been warned.

-- Canwest News Service

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Selected excerpts from reviews of Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis.

A movie that makes little sense, is dumb when it's not being stupid and yet is still at times laugh-out-loud funny.

-- Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

Definitely has its amusing moments, but ultimately all that improvised shtick gets mighty tired without any real break in the non-action.

-- Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter


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