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- Despite a premise rife with potential dark humor, there’s too little edge in “Let’s Be Cops.” Director/co-writer Luke Greenfield chose wacky over witty and the result is a film with no sense of danger, no reason to care and not enough laughs to make the sitcomish handling of a strong premise forgivable.
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Aug 13, 2014 · Best pals Ryan (Jake Johnson) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion.
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Aug 13, 2014 · Despite a premise rife with potential dark humor, there’s too little edge in “Let’s Be Cops.” Director/co-writer Luke Greenfield chose wacky over witty and the result is a film with no sense of danger, no reason to care and not enough laughs to make the sitcomish handling of a strong premise forgivable.
Let's Be Cops, a dull, lame, sexist and predictable 'comedy' ticking the wrong boxes. Full Review | Mar 4, 2019
Parents need to know that Let's Be Cops is an over-the-top comedy about two average guys who decide to impersonate Los Angeles police officers and end up becoming embroiled in a real mob scheme. There's a lot of shooting and fighting, as well as tons of swearing (with every word you can….
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- Luke Greenfield
- Should you ride along with this R-rated cop comedy?
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By Chris Carle
Posted: Aug 13, 2014 7:00 am
With the critical and commercial success of the recent Jump Street movies, it's a wonder that there haven't been even more R-rated cop-themed comedies. But Fox is getting in on the action with Let's Be Cops, a movie with a fun premise that doesn't quite deliver on its promise. Sometimes hilarious but mostly only mildly funny, Let's Be Cops will leave you wishing it had gone a little further.
The conceit of the film is simple but fun: Longtime friends Ryan (Jake Johnson) and Justin (Damon Wayons Jr.) don a pair of cop uniforms to attend a masquerade party. The party doesn't go well but upon leaving, they discover that folks look at them differently when they're in uniform.
After basking in the glow of positive attention, the pair eventually finds themselves in a situation where they can use their (fake) badges for actual good, breaking up a shady shakedown of local business owners by henchmen of a bad guy named Mossi (James D'Arcy). After successfully busting the thugs, Ryan gets a surge of confidence and wants to continue the charade, while play-by-the-book Justin wants to end it before anyone gets hurt. But where's the fun in that?
The guys get increasingly bold, led by Ryan. He gets a cop car on eBay, sews insignia on his uniform to make him a sergeant, and begins to go on actual police calls, dragging Justin along against his wishes. While Ryan loves the danger and the status of being a cop, Justin just wants a normal life.
While I spent a good portion of the movie with a smile on my face, and some of it laughing out loud, I wanted a little bit more on all fronts. The leads had great chemistry; they were likeable and believable. But I wanted more wackiness like the Pupa sequence, and even more exploration of what folks could and would do when impersonating cops. Let's...
- Chris Carle
Aug 13, 2014 · ‘Let’s Be Cops’: Film Review. Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. play two underachievers who decide to pose as L.A. policemen. By THR Staff. August 13, 2014 10:26am. At one point during...
Aug 13, 2014 · It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals (Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.) dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations.
