Sentences with phrase «cop buddy action»

Bullock and McCarthy were well cast alongside each other in the daring first female cop buddy action crime comedy.

Not exact matches

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

Opening this weekend, buddy - cop action - comedy The Other Guys stars a pair of actors caught in a mid-career slump.

In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems....

The pursuit of laughs, friendship and criminals in action crime buddy cop films has always been a thriving success with male characters, from ’21 Jump Street» to «Die Hard» to «End of Watch.»

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

Hot Fuzz is similarly filled with references to its other target — buddy cop Hollywood action extravaganzas — and is this respect it is less than impressive.

This isn't a self - aware buddy - cop - action movie.

It's simply a buddy - cop - action movie, and a pretty derivative and annoying one at that.

The original, airing for a half dozen seasons starting in 1977, was a buddy action drama basically revolving around the heroic exploits of a couple of mismatched motorcycle cops, with Ponch often going rogue, much to the chagrin of his relatively - straitlaced partner.

The action comedy Let's Be Cops is the ultimate buddy cop movies, except for the fact that they're not actually cCops is the ultimate buddy cop movies, except for the fact that they're not actually copscops.

Ernest Tidyman's script tweaks buddy - cop stereotypes by compelling the audience to identify with a bigoted and obsessive loose cannon whose actions grow increasingly questionable, and subverts the tidy moral resolution demanded by genre convention, reflecting a darker, more ambivalent worldview, simultaneously hearkening back to the post-WWII high tide of film noir and resonant with Vietnam - era anxieties and tensions.

Rush Hour 3 (New Line, August 10) Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max Von Sydow, Noemie Lenoir, Vinnie Jones, Yvan Attel, Roselyn Sanchez, Roman Polanski Director: Brett Ratner Rating: NR The Pitch: Chan and Tucker re-team for the third installment in Ratner's hugely successful (at least as of 1998) buddy - cop series, this time taking the action to Paris.

The performances save this film from being a standard police cop / buddy action flick.

The movie: Channeling the best elements of every buddy cop movie and crafting something wholly unique, Shane Black's action comedy noir is simply one of the funniest flicks of recent years.

Hot Fuzz is a great example of homage and meta - commentary capped by a masterclass in shooting action; it's buddy cop flick that's all about buddy cop flicks.

We have corrupt cops, the reluctant buddy partnership and even Stallone's daughter getting kidnapped by the bad guys in the final act to round the action up.

Here's yet another buddy comedy / action flick where two cops with some sort of barrier join forces and save the day.

The cast and crew of «2 Guns,» including stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, discuss the humor prevalent throughout the action movie's script and taking a different approach to the traditional buddy cop trope.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are officially reuniting for the action - packed buddy - cop movie Bad Boys for Life, Entertainment Weekly reports.

With Hot Fuzz, he takes the action - packed buddy cop films and does it again.

If you've seen This Is the End on VOD or DVD and felt like you didn't get enough Seth Rogen / James Franco fun, Netflix have made available Pineapple Express, a stoner / buddy / action - comedy about a drug dealer and a process server who go on the run after one witnesses a murder involving corrupt cops and the head of a narcotics empire.

Joining Ottman on the score is rising action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of film noir moodiness.

Fast & Furious (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, profanity, drug references and intense action sequences) Fourth installment of the popular muscle car series, featuring a reunion of the original's principal cast, revolves around a couple of unlikely buddies, a cop (Paul Walker) and a fugitive ex-con (Vin Diesel), who team up to infiltrate and bring down an L.A. heroin cartel.

Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this buddy cop action comedy based on the»70s T.V. show, co-starring Michael Peña as Ponch.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

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It's a parody of buddy cop movies with Ferrell and Wahlberg playing a pair of New York police detectives, one of whom prefers to play it safe and fill out paperwork all day, while the other yearns to be out on the street in the middle of the action.

The «In Living Color» veteran will play veteran detective Roger Murtaugh in Fox's reboot of the classic buddy - cop action franchise.

Director Edgar Wright has previously delivered is parody of Zombies (Shaun of the Dead), his parody of buddy - cop - action films (Hot Fuzz), and now takes on Sci - Fi in this latest... a worthy conclusion with the trademark quick cuts and rapid fire witty / silly dialogue.

Writer / director Edgar Wright, co - writer / star Simon Pegg, and star Nick Frost reunited again in 2007 on the action comedy Hot Fuzz, this time working within the buddy cop format and again turning out something wholly unique and wildly entertaining.

Having thoroughly sent up, worked over, and skewered zombie movies (Shaun of the Dead) and buddy - cop action pics (Hot Fuzz), it makes sense that writer / director Edgar Wright and his crew - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and a scrum of like - minded Brits - would fix their sights on another well - trod genre.

The action involves a lot of loud gunfire and the breaking of glass, reminiscent somewhat of buddy cop films from the 1980s, a la 48 Hours and the many that followed it, including the Shane Black - scripted Lethal Weapon.

«It's great to be working together, «buddy cop» - style with esteemed developer Ground Shatter, in order to bring the visceral and frenetic action of RICO to a global audience.»

In terms of sound, the soundtrack for The Chase Begins matches the Wii U version with some very upbeat, cheesy tunes that you'd find in a buddy cop action movie from the 80s and 90s.

Cyanide Studio's Of Orcs and Men is a cross between an action - role - playing game and a buddy - cop film.

Now there's a duo that deserves an RPG buddy cop adventure action game.

RICO is a first - person, buddy cop shooter inspired by modern action cinema.