Another action-comedy with two cops of extreme opposites, forced to work together. The buddy-cop genre. DeNiro is old, white, no-nonsensical and grumpy whereas Murphy is (trying to pass as) young, eager and impulsive. Apart from a couple of scenes where DeNiro times his lines of grumpiness decently (i.e. "Get a real job") there really isn't much to laugh at here. His Mitch Preston is no John Moss and certainly no Jack Cates. He is also given a head start as Murphy's character is so obnoxious and useless that you really do identify with all of DeNiro's spite.
The most notable support is William Shatner... urgh. Making fun of himself as he did for a decade. There's a smile and a half in it. Also watch out for some really, REALLY lame Taxi Driver references.
The stereotypes are all here. The white cop, the colored cop, the money-hungry PR-person that turns out to have some moral fibres after all (as opposed to her boss... no surprise there), the Johnnie Cochran-jokes by colored perps being arrested etc. With one of the least memorable (and certainly least original with his dyed hair, eastern european accent and club life) villains of the decade, this really isn't worth its running time.
The action sequences are generally less than impressive, and the storyline has not really been written by anyone, just stolen from earlier (and better) movies in the same genre. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it made me want to watch "48 hours" again, where Nick Nolte epitomizes the angry white asshole cop, whereas Murphy is actually funny. And that they at least spare us a stupid romantic side-story, although if Russo had shown the same strutting as in "The Thomas Crown Affair" there would be a third scene I liked.
Not even the blooper reel is worthy of a laugh...
2/10
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