The viewer is advised to first familiarize self with action movie tropes

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2007)

Simply put, I walked out of the theater thinking this was totally wretched and appalling, and wondering why my opinion was at such a distance from that of so many critics and fellow viewers. Then I realized that I was really projecting my hatred onto cop films themselves, a genre I'm about as familiar with as Kanye West is with German opera. They're just not my  what's that British phrase?  cup of tea.
See, most of us  well, most Anglo-Americans anyway  have seen enough cop movies to be drawn in to their strange little world, absorb their themes and grammar, temporarily suppress any natural abhorrence for gun violence, and suspend one's disbelief regarding such absurd displays of gratuitous bloodshed as the standard shoot-out climax. So if you've seen enough cop movies  say, three times as many as I have  you, unlike me, will probably appreciate this send-up. But hey, when you think about it, aren't most of those films already self- parodies to begin with? (Note: I'm trying to submit this with no rating, but if I must, I'll rate it 5/10).