If Roman Polanski and Michael Moore had a love child...

Rating: 5/10 (5 December 2016)

..and that love child grew up to make movies, this would be the result. If Chinatown was a documentary. Or Roger And Me was fiction (no, wait, it was fiction. Never mind).
OK, I know how it got green-lit. Name director, A-list stars, buddy movie, frat-boy humour, boobies.
I'm not sure how it actually was released as such, though.
Ever get half-way through a movie and you are still waiting for it to live up to the trailer? Then you get an uncomfortable feeling that all the good lines were actually IN the trailer?
Yeah, that kind of movie.
Seriously, every time the two leads (Gosling channelling David Arquette, Crowe could get the lead role in a John Goodman bio pic) get a bit of chemistry going, another dumb plot point is dropped into the movie like a lead-filled safe.
For every great line (see: trailer) there are full minutes of "Screenwriting 101" rejects. Characters are often little more than caricatures, and the entire 70s vibe is rather ruined by obvious, and dumb mistakes (calling 911? Really?!?).
This was apparently supposed to be a TV show, which would make more sense. If there is actually a sequel, Hollywood is doomed.
I liked it better the first time, when it was called "Starsky and Hutch".