Two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party and become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
A bolt from the blue – not least because it’s from the director of The Girl Next Door and Something Borrowed…
Let’s Be Cops is an amiable watch that succeeds in spite of its many flaws, but you can’t help but wonder what someone like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's Shane Black or Superbad's Greg Mottola might have done had they got hold of it.
The dopey duo have a few decent lines, though Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum already showed us how to do the pseudo-cop routine in the Jump Street pictures.
Far from arresting.
It’s rarely laugh-out-loud funny and stretches credibility to breaking point but I’ll settle for a few dumb laughs in today’s grim world.
Luke Greenfield's cop-impersonation comedy is by turns boring, exasperating and infuriating.
Noisy gunplay, screaming homophobia and stale gags that couldn’t get arrested at any other time of the year.
Needless to say, laughs are thin on the ground.
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