The worst bit of casting came in the form of Guillermo Diaz as Poh Boy, the drug lord villain. He has a few funny moments, but you need more than a few when you're helping carry an entire feature.
Morgan was all right back in the day on SNL and he's pretty good on 30 ROCK, but he grinds on my nerves here.
I love Willis but he doesn't really seem to get much to work with, and for most of the movie he comes off as bored. The problem isn't just with the writing and weak action sequences, it's with the casting.
Smith's trademark borderline-juvenile comedy that usually has me laughing so hard I can't breathe is pretty much gone (though he does manage to toss in his obligatory STAR WARS reference) and replaced by cringe-worthy low(er) brow toilet humor. I've never seen anything written by the Cullens and, thanks to COP OUT, I'm not in any real rush to do so. Here, the writing duties had been given to Robb and Mark Cullen. Smith has created some of my favorite comedies (DOGMA was awesome, and JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK is one of my guilty pleasures), but those were films he'd written and directed. So it just sits in the middle, failing to appease people who watched it for either reason. See, it even sounds like an 80s buddy cop movie!! The problem here is that the film isn't funny enough to be a full comedy, and the action isn't strong enough to be a decent action film. Jimmy and his long-time partner Paul (Morgan) set out to track down the baseball card and find themselves in the middle of a case to bring down a local drug lord who hopes to expand his business. He decides to sell off a rare baseball card to raise the funds, but a robbery relieves him of the card before he can. The timing couldn't be worse, as Jimmy (Willis) is trying to pay for his daughter's wedding.
The film, Smith's attempt at recreating the fun of 80's buddy cop films, stars Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan as two disgraced cops who are suspended after a botched stake-out. Unfortunately, the movie was so mediocre that I found my attention wandering through most of it. Kevin Smith is one of my favorite modern filmmakers, but everyone makes mistakes and Smith's latest is COP OUT.
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