Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
4 |
A lot of the dialogue is intended as funny, but man, is it lame. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
3 |
...not once is it funny. |
E!
Luke Y. Thompson |
8 |
While Smith's self-acknowledged weakness with action sequences is still evident, his gift for profanity-laden comedy more than makes up for it. |
filmcritic.com
David Thomas |
6 |
While this mash-up doesn't produce results on par with the best of the genres it draws on, it still provides plenty of laughs. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
4 |
...repeatedly shoots for laughs -- but ends up mostly firing blanks. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
5 |
...a meandering, sloppy hodgepodge of gags strung together by a narrative beset by superfluous subplots. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
...diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
4 |
...there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn). |
New York Times
A . O. Scott |
5 |
From time to time, Cop Out offers glimpses of the giddy, goofy delight it might have been. |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
7 |
...ridiculous fun. |
LA Weekly
Karina Longworth |
6 |
...works as a love letter to film fandom, and, amid the ample violence and genitalia jokes, its strength is its sincerity. |
Village Voice
Karina Longworth |
6 |
...works as a love letter to film fandom, and, amid the ample violence and genitalia jokes, its strength is its sincerity. |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
4 |
...his [Smith's] slack direction siphons the energy out of this tongue-in-cheek throwback to ’80s mismatched-buddy comedies. |
Premiere
Nick Starkey |
3 |
...nothing more than a cheap and uninteresting homage... |
Christian Science Monitor
Andy Klein |
4 |
...tends to fall flat on comedy as well as character chemistry. |
Variety
Andrew Barker |
4 |
Cop Out marks indie hero [Kevin] Smith's first attempt to direct a script he did not write and given the absence of his garrulous dialogue and sweetly obscene sensibilities, the shortcomings of his craft are made all the more apparent. |
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