Really, I'm not sure why I keep watching these horrible movies. I feel like deep down I hate myself or something. There's has to be a subconscious reason behind this. This time Is at down and watched Let's Be Cops starring Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. I wish it was Jake Gyllenhaal and Damon Wayans Sr. it might have been funny that way.
The plot to this movie starts out pretty good. Justin (Wayans) is a video game developer. He pitches a game about police officers and his boss doesn't even pay attention so of course it gets rejected. His roommate Ryan (Johnson) claims to be a struggling actor but is living off of the money he made from a herpes commercial the year before and hasn't had work sense. They've got their high school reunion coming up and are both pretty depressed about not doing anything. Ryan convinces Justin to dress as cops with him for the reunion.
They pretend to be cops and still feel like crap because everyone in their class has gone on to have success. People barely remember Justin and only remember Ryan for one big football play. They leave feeling discouraged but once on the street they realize people kind of like cops and enjoy it.
This is when the movie goes to Hell in a hand basket. Let me skip the crap in between. Somehow they become entangled in a smuggling plot of the mob. They somehow convince a detective that they're real cops. Plot twist, but not really, the detective works for the mob too. Even with all this, they overcome and topple the entire mob. Then it ends with Justin becoming a successful developer and Ryan becoming a real cop.
Now, IMDB has this movie ranked a four stars and calls it hilarious. Rotten Tomatoes has it at half a star. Nobody should listen to Rotten Tomatoes because the hate everything. They are to movies what Pitchfork is to music. I trusted IMDB with this one. I was wrong, I can never trust them again. The acting in this movie was horrible. I don't know what Jake Johnson was doing, but I'm pretty sure he thought he was in a Lifetime Original Movie. Damon Wayans Jr. could be funny, but he was just trying to do what made his dad popular. Someone should tell him Homie don't play that.
Have you ever noticed how every bad movie has one actor or actress that doesn't get named during promotion. They just sort of appear in the movie as a surprise. Then you shake your head and facepalm why saying "This is so below them." In this move that actor is Keegan-Micahel Key. Why did you do it? Where was Jordan Peele to talk you out of this? Why? Why did you do this? But he's not the only one. Andy Garcia isn't a name you probably recognize. But you should. He's been nominated for countless awards for his work in such films as The Godfather III and Oceans Eleven. He's also in this film. Does he have a drug problem we don't know about? Why would he agree to this? He didn't need the money and they couldn't have paid him that much.
Most of the movie took place in the same rooms. Pretty sure their apartment only has one room. The budget was 17 million and I'm pretty sure that was spent on the stupid action scenes. Those action scenes were horrible by the way. It looked like some hipster college student could have filmed with their buddies.
Here's the worst part. It made 96 million dollars. That means there's going to be a spiritual sequel at some point. Stay tuned for Let's Be Paramedics, and Let's Be Firefighters. Don't forget my personal favorite Let's Be Politicians, where two men pretend to be congressmen and change the world over a week. Then everyone looks the other way and one becomes a legitimate congressman while the other becomes a successful business owner selling tacky suits to Steve Harvey. Screw this movie.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He's also playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal on YouTube
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They pretend to be cops and still feel like crap because everyone in their class has gone on to have success. People barely remember Justin and only remember Ryan for one big football play. They leave feeling discouraged but once on the street they realize people kind of like cops and enjoy it.
This is when the movie goes to Hell in a hand basket. Let me skip the crap in between. Somehow they become entangled in a smuggling plot of the mob. They somehow convince a detective that they're real cops. Plot twist, but not really, the detective works for the mob too. Even with all this, they overcome and topple the entire mob. Then it ends with Justin becoming a successful developer and Ryan becoming a real cop.
Now, IMDB has this movie ranked a four stars and calls it hilarious. Rotten Tomatoes has it at half a star. Nobody should listen to Rotten Tomatoes because the hate everything. They are to movies what Pitchfork is to music. I trusted IMDB with this one. I was wrong, I can never trust them again. The acting in this movie was horrible. I don't know what Jake Johnson was doing, but I'm pretty sure he thought he was in a Lifetime Original Movie. Damon Wayans Jr. could be funny, but he was just trying to do what made his dad popular. Someone should tell him Homie don't play that.
Have you ever noticed how every bad movie has one actor or actress that doesn't get named during promotion. They just sort of appear in the movie as a surprise. Then you shake your head and facepalm why saying "This is so below them." In this move that actor is Keegan-Micahel Key. Why did you do it? Where was Jordan Peele to talk you out of this? Why? Why did you do this? But he's not the only one. Andy Garcia isn't a name you probably recognize. But you should. He's been nominated for countless awards for his work in such films as The Godfather III and Oceans Eleven. He's also in this film. Does he have a drug problem we don't know about? Why would he agree to this? He didn't need the money and they couldn't have paid him that much.
Most of the movie took place in the same rooms. Pretty sure their apartment only has one room. The budget was 17 million and I'm pretty sure that was spent on the stupid action scenes. Those action scenes were horrible by the way. It looked like some hipster college student could have filmed with their buddies.
Here's the worst part. It made 96 million dollars. That means there's going to be a spiritual sequel at some point. Stay tuned for Let's Be Paramedics, and Let's Be Firefighters. Don't forget my personal favorite Let's Be Politicians, where two men pretend to be congressmen and change the world over a week. Then everyone looks the other way and one becomes a legitimate congressman while the other becomes a successful business owner selling tacky suits to Steve Harvey. Screw this movie.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He's also playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal on YouTube
Follow @OriginalKingD
