Movies: Red

This movie's funny but it fails to reach its full potential. It suffers from uneven pacing, starting off slow and only picking up in the middle. The writing is pretty weak throughout. The only thing that really propels this movie is the soundtrack and the actors' performances.

Unfortunately, for a movie that is built on memorable actions, it seems to be lacking memorable action scenes. It could've been much more badass.

Overall, this movie had an interesting premise but stale writing, and the all-star cast carried it throughout. John Malkovich is the best part of this movie.

Movies: Cop Out

As the title of the film may suggest, this movie is a joke. While watching this movie I was very confused. The movie is very funny but (although I wasn't expecting much) it had a really bad plot, even for a buddy-cop comedy. However, as silly and stupid as it was, it was still a few yucks short of a straight-out parody (see Loaded Weapon 1).

I was confused as to what kind of film this was supposed to be until the credits started rolling and I saw that Kevin Smith was the director. Then it all made a little bit more sense. The cheesy 80's music that popped up every now and then was an obvious homage to the buddy cop genre's golden age as were Tracy Morgan's penchant for spouting cliché film quotes.

Overall, this movie is pretty funny. There are enough cheap laughs to remind you that it doesn't really matter that the plot is loose. Loose like your mother's vagina. Yeah, that's the kind of humor you can expect from this movie.