Man, I really want to read the script "A Couple of Dicks" and find out what went wrong from the time the film made it onto the "The Black List" (a list of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood) and then somehow became the almost laughless film "Cop Out". Now, admittedly, I'm not a huge fan of Kevin Smith but I thought this film really failed on most every level. It looked better than MacGruber but other than that, it wasn't even better than that flick. At least MacGruber had a handful of legitimately funny moments; Cop Out didn't really have any.

One of the problems was the casting. Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis had zero chemistry together, not that their characters ever really felt developed or like a team. One problem is that Morgan rarely seems like a normal person. I love him in 30 Rock and any of his whacked out talk show interviews but in a role as a regular guy, it just doesn't work. The casting of Morgan goes along with the rest of the film which didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. It seemed like Smith was going for a feel like "Fletch" or "Beverly Hills Cop" but instead of giving us Fletch or Axel Foley, we just got two generic lead characters.

Maybe fans of Smith's work will like this (I also hated Zach and Miri Make a Porno but apparently some people enjoyed it.) but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.