Sentences with phrase «of buddy cop films»

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.

When Humphrey Bogart unexpectedly joined forces with Claude Rains at the end of Casablanca, the seeds of the buddy cop film were sewn.

Not exact matches

The buddy - cop film, with elements of «Lord of the Rings» - style fantasy, only got positive reviews from 12 % of top movie critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

A buddy - cop thriller recast as Dante's sojourn in Hell, this graphic, allusion - littered film stands the conventions of the genre on end — along with the viewer's hair.

But, at it's core, the film is nothing more than the latest in the long line of Hollywood's tried and true formula: the buddy cop movie.

Yes, it's a cop - buddy film, and of course there is a case to be solved.

The film, which stars Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc buddy cop duo, is the streaming giant's first attempt a major tentpole release, entering the kind of waters that are normally reserved for traditional studios opening films wide across hundreds of cinema screens.

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.»

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

It's no secret that buddy cop films largely depend on the chemistry of the leads and not much else.

Run the words of the title together and you get a not - terribly - clever yet not - entirely - awful summary of what the film is getting at when it's not busy being a retarded high - concept buddy cop flick pairing your typical crusty old vet with an earnest rookie who happens to be an alien with a spotted pate instead of a hilarious racial minority.

Emmerich is at it again, but instead of disaster porn, he refreshingly gives us the Die Hard clone we were so desperately desiring in Olympus Has Fallen — unlike that film's dour seriousness, and Butler's glower, here we get an almost goofy film wherein Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx play buddy - cop through the elevator shafts and abandoned rooms of the White House.

While Wright was making «Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World,» Pegg and Frost enlisted the help of «Superbad» and «Adventureland» director Greg Mottola to help them make the science - fiction answer to the zombie film homage «Shaun of the Dead,» and the buddy cop love letter «Hot Fuzz.»

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.

Of course, «those two guys» are Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, two of Hollywood's biggest stars, who also noted the unique nature of the film's interpretation of the classic buddy cop tropOf course, «those two guys» are Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, two of Hollywood's biggest stars, who also noted the unique nature of the film's interpretation of the classic buddy cop tropof Hollywood's biggest stars, who also noted the unique nature of the film's interpretation of the classic buddy cop tropof the film's interpretation of the classic buddy cop tropof the classic buddy cop trope.

Premiering in 2016, Lethal Weapon is an adaptation of the iconic buddy - cop film series of the same name by Shane Black.

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.

Cowritten by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi, this nonstop - hilarious buddy - cop film is both a committed rekindling of the old formula Black aced throughout his career and a playful wink to the genre, bouncily walking on the fine line with occasional backflips.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

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.

The buddy - cop movie» 2 Guns» is surprisingly fun, and Fox re-issues the film that defined multiple personalities forever, «The Three Faces of Eve,» in a beautiful Blu - ray transfer.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.

As was true with zombie films and «Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» isn't so much a satire of the buddy cop genre as it is a fanatical love letter.

Skarsgard and Pena make the unlikely central duo in this bad - cop - worse - cop buddy comedy work with such a generous dose of hilarity and raunchiness that you'll easily forgive the film its naive moments and predictability.

The formula that Black continues to use emerges from the subgenre known as buddy cop: from Lethal Weapon to his most recent film, The Nice Guys, the protagonists are a pair of unusual detectives, who are instantly a peculiarity among the unfolding crime story of the film.

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