Cop Out is Kevin Smith‘s newest movie, starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott and in supporting roles, Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg and Adam Brody.

Plot:
Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) have been police men and partners for quite  a while now and things have been working fine. Now, Jimmy’s daughter (Michelle Trachtenberg) is getting married and the only way Jimmy can pay for the wedding is by selling a rare baseball card. Unfortunately, that card is stolen and bought by a latino gangster (Guillermo Díaz). Now Paul and Jimmy get drawn into a series of events neither would have expected.

Cop Out feels like the sequel to an average buddy cop movie: The whole team-building phase is already over, the jokes are a little tired, it’s completely repetitive and you are convinced that you’ve seen it all before. And it might have put me off 30 Rock forever.

I probably should mention that I’m so not in the target audience for this movie (since I can think about dicks without laughing. In fact, not only that but I need a little more than the mention of dicks to see the joke at all) and I knew that going in. But I was hoping that, since I like Kevin Smith, I’d be surprised and that the movie would be more than the trailer. It wasn’t. In fact, if you find the trailer hilarious, by all means, disregard this entire review and go watch the film.

The plot itself was rather weak and rather predictable. If you don’t enjoy the humour of this film – and I didn’t (except for a couple of scenes) – there’s nothing else left to enjoy. Even what could have been potentially hilarious – Tracy Morgan’s “impressions” of and hommages to other movies – fell flat for me.

I have to admit that I have a problem with Tracy Morgan’s screen persona. I mean, he always plays the same guy – and I can’t stand him. In 30 Rock, I can deal since it’s only 20 minutes at a time. But seeing him for 90 minutes straight was too much – and I don’t know if that will fade enough so that I can enjoy 30 Rock again.

But apart from the fact that I couldn’t stand Paul because he annoyed the hell out of me, he stalks his wife – and it’s treated as a joke. I mean, Jimmy tells him that he’s an idiot but in the end, he goes along with the whole thing. Harbloodyhar. It’s so funny when husbands don’t trust their wives (or vice versa) and think that they have an affair with anybody else they talk to and then they whip out the spying cams. I can’t stop laughing. Not.

Summarising: watch the trailer. Did you laugh? Then you’ll enjoy this film. If you didn’t, stay away.

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As a minor sidenote (and that’s probably just me), I couldn’t take Guillermo Díaz seriously as a gangster since I kept thinking, “hey, that’s the nurse from Mercy!” And that’s just not the thing you want to have in your head, when the big bad turns up…