The on screen duo of Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan is one that looks incredible on paper. You have Willis, a tried and tested Hollywood A-Lister with movie credits in Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Surrogates, amongst several others. Then there's Morgan with his ten year run on Saturday Night Live and his very successful NBC show, 30 Rock. The combination of these proven track records is what caused someone to have the idea to pair the two in a major motion picture. They reportedly spent about $30 million and the end product was, Cop Out,"A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster"(Props to IMDB for that).
I went into seeing this movie primarily for Morgan, I love watching him on 30 Rock and expected his random, sometimes moronic humor to shine in this movie. It definitely did, but I found that they're were times when it was too much and I was dying for a new scene, and a new opportunity for him to be fresh and funny. There's a scene though with Willis, Morgan, and a kid, whose name I couldn't find, that is the funniest scene in the whole movie. It involves a stolen Mercedes and an old fashioned cell phone(Trust me, it's dynamite).
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