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LET'S BE COPS (15) HAVE [...] [South Wales Echo (UK)](South Wales Echo (UK) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) LET'S BE COPS (15) HAVE you ever seen someone doing something stupid - and wished you were a traffic cop able to put the world to rights? That's the feeling underpinning this fun, escapist film about two friends who do more than just think about it. Armed with fancy dress costumes which gain them new respect from the ladies, former pro-football player Ryan O'Malley (Jake Johnson) and video game designer Justin Miller (Damon Wayans Jr) up the ante by buying a former police car off eBay. Justin knows they are in the wrong, but the chance to find out who crashed Ryan's car, hunt sadistic Russian mobster Mossi Kasic (James D'Arcy) and put into practice everything they've ever learned by watching TV cop shows presents a succession of opportunities that are just too good to resist. It's a terrific premise, made all the better by a sharpish script and decent on-screen chemistry between Wayans and Johnson. They're no match for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the glossier Bad Boys (1995), nor Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum from the current Jump Street series, but all you have to do here is fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride. Though drawing interesting parallels with contemporary video game violence, Let's Be Cops has a more old fashioned feel - a traditional police academy procedural that is, quite literally, dressed in new clothes. Except that is, for a Borat-style nude wrestling scene that will bring the house down. (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |