After a failed attempt to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth, the planet’s inhabitants find out that they only have three weeks to live before total annihilation. For Dodge (Steve Carell), this horrific news results in his wife leaving him, which further separates him from a growingly chaotic world. As Dodge sits in a lonely shame spiral, he is suddenly interrupted by Penny (Keira Knightly), a youthful... 

It’s a running gag in Cop Out that the detectives played by Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan have probably watched too many bad buddy-cop movies, and resort to a clichéd, abused use of that dialog when playing “bad cop” with a suspect. Perhaps the unfortunate (and unintended) punchline of the joke is that most of the movie sounds like a bad buddy-cop movie, even when the characters aren’t supposed... 

When someone puts a fresh spin on something tried and true, it normally is met with mixed results: those who welcome change by accepting the newer version and then those who stick to fundamentals and tend to say you are ruining a perfectly good thing. That is kind of how it is with Kevin Smith’s new film Cop Out. He is putting a new twist on the 80’s buddy cop genre and I find it to be particularly...