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505671, Critics are really going after Smith
Posted by SoulHonky, Thu Feb-25-10 05:17 PM
My guess is that it's going to be a typical Kevin Smith movie; enough laughs for the fanboys, not enough for the average filmgoer.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cop_out/

"Desperately unfunny, tone-deaf homage to 80s buddy cop movies from director Kevin Smith - just one of the many who should have known better."

"A variety of scenarios provides ample opportunities for humor, yet most are lazily wasted."

"As rotten and laugh-free as the trailer. Just much, much, much longer."

"A soulless, witless, landfill contraption that Smith once would have mocked mercilessly."

"Smith's directorial style is far too slack for this material, which aims to be an homage to populist '80s classics like 48 Hrs. and Lethal Weapon, but only winds up resembling one of the bargain-bin knockoffs that floundered in those films' wake."

And Ebert: "Many of the gags possibly looked good on paper, but watching Willis and Morgan struggle with them is like watching third graders do Noel Coward, if Noel Coward had been rewritten by Kevin Smith. "