2.75/5
Reviewed June 23, 2024
Not gonna get too deep into this one. Mismatched cop action comedy featuring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as homicide partners whose second jobs (real estate for Ford, yoga and acting for Hartnett) keep getting in the way of their detective work. A young rap group is gunned down in a club (one of the killers is a super young Anthony Mackie) and our heroes have to figure out why, leading to a pretty tame conspiracy. The film is on the lower end of mismatched cop films, but still watchable.
The biggest issue is that while Ford is very believable, Hartnett just did not have comedy chops in 2003 and it shows. He nails the serious parts of his character, but is hard to watch at times. The plot is super basic but surprisingly has some basis in reality, both the murders and the multi-job cops – the cops are based on real police that the writer knew. Film is also chock-full of cameos from the music industry (Master P, Andre 3000, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight) and some Hollywood folks (Martin Landau and Eric Idle, among others). It’s also got Keith David as a super supportive police chief, which is a role I never knew I needed him in before tonight.
There are some rough sections (the canal chase) and some real good sections (the car chase with Ford negotiating house prices), and overall it just kind of levels out at just OK. So many better cop comedies out there, so just go watch Lethal Weapon.
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