Let's Be Cops

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with Ryan (Jake Jonshon) singing karaoke to Justin (Damon Wayons, Jr) in a pizza place. After the song, Justin explains that hes depressed that they're both 30 year old losers, living in Los Angeles and maybe its time to go back to Ohio. Ryan doesn't work and Justin is unhappy in his job as an assistant for a video game developer. Justin also has a crush on the waitress Josie (Nina Dobrev), but is too scared to talk to her.The two head out to a dance club where they're ignored by everyone. They leave, and Ryan's junker Camaro dies out front after the valet brings it up. Everyone in line is laughing at them. The large SUV behind them is beeping and flashing its lights. Finally, Ryan gets it started and pulls out as the SUV whips past. The vehicles collide. Ryan gets out and starts to yell at the people in the SUV. Everyone inside the SUV looks like Albanian mafia. In the rear, flanked by two hot ladies is a scary guy with a scar over his eye. They laugh at Ryan.The next day, Justin is at work pitching his video game idea 'Patrolman L.A.' As a visual aid, he has two mannequins dressed as LAPD. The staff at the company is thoroughly disinterested and his boss decides that Firemen are hotter as are zombies, the company should start work on Firefighters versus Zombies.Ryan is playing football in the park with a bunch of small children and aggressively destroying them. One of the kids is angry and asks Ryan what he does all day. He returns to his dad, who asks who Ryan is and the kid explains that hes a nobody who thinks hes a coach.Justin returns to the apartment he and Ryan share. Ryan is dressed as a ghost because they're going to a costume party in June. Justin doesn't like the ghost costume so instead they both go as LAPD using the uniforms from earlier. Justin lies and says the company bought his game idea.Turns out its not a costume party, but a black tie masquerade ball. All of their old friends are there (even though its established that they're both from Ohio and this is LA). For some reason, they're playing Ryan's big college football moment on the television. His old friends ask what ever happened to him. He tells them he was injured. They clarify that they mean what ever happened to him in life. He says he did a commercial (herpes commercial) once.Feeling like losers again, Justin and Ryan leave the party (still dressed as cops). Justin confesses that he didn't sell the game. As they walk down the street, they cant help to notice that women are checking them out big time. Then a group of women run up and kiss them, explaining its for a scavenger hunt. They confiscate and smoke weed from some young guys. They dig being mistaken for cops.They go back to the pizza place from before and (what a coincidence) the SUV from the night before is there. They go inside and interrupt the Albanian mob henchmen from trying to muscle the shop owner Georgie into selling his business. Justin and Ryan make the mafia guys leave and everyone cheers. Josie takes a liking to Justin and they set up a date.The next day, Ryan watches videos online on how to be a cop. He also finds a used cop car on Ebay. He texts Justin at work asking when they can go out as cops again. Justin isn't sure its a good idea. Then he gets a message from his boss telling him to be prepared to take notes during the Firefighters versus Zombies meeting. Justin leaves work.On his way home, Justin is pulled over by a cop car. Inside its actually Ryan. He bought the car and lights online and made the door decals at Kinkos. He also gave himself sergeant stripes because he felt he deserved a promotion.The two screw around in the car all day, but that night they're pulled over by real cops Officer Segars (Rob Riggle) and his partner see Ryans sergeant stripes and apologize. Right when Justin and Rob are about to drive away, the alarm from the hardware store they're all in front of sounds. All four go inside.The real cops and fake cops split up. The fake cops encounter a tweaking Asian armed with a shovel. He runs off, but the coast isn't clear. A large naked Asian man charges them and tackles Justin. His dick and balls smear across Justin's face. The real cops come in and tell them they should all split up again to find the shovel guy. Instead, Justin and Ryan run off. Segars notices, but doesn't stop them.The Albanian mafia guys report back to their boss that some beat cops stopped them at Georgie's pizza place. Their boss is Mossi (James D'Arcy), the scar face guy from the back of the SUV. Mossi is angry and says that hes the law in town.The next day Ryan takes his police car to the park and scares the kids from earlier. Justin and Josie go on a date. Her dream is to be a make up artist. She tells him she tends to attract the wrong kind of guys. For example, there's one guy now who's super intense and scares her. He tries to tell her that he's not really a cop, but she takes off her top and hes rendered speechless. Outside, henchmen in the SUV watch everything through the window.Ryan and Justin are out patrolling when they get a call for a domestic disturbance at a sorority house. Naturally they go. A hot girl answers the door and says two of the girls are fighting. The two fighting girls are kinda like Flava of Love cast members and viciously girl fighting. Ryan and Justin try to break it up, but one of the girls kicks both of their asses.Later Josie calls Justin in a panic and asks him to come to the pizza place. Ryan and Justin go there and meet Mossi. Mossi tells Justin to stay away from his girl and slaps him silly. Ryan tries to stand up to him, but Mossi doesn't back down. Justin decides its time to stop being a fake cop.The next day Justin looks up online exactly how illegal it is to impersonate an officer. He decides he and Ryan should go to the police station and turn themselves in. However, Segars sees them and pulls them aside. Justin tells him about Mossi trying to muscle the pizza place. Segars says he knows about Mossi, but there isn't enough money in the budget for an investigation. Ryan volunteers themselves to investigate on their own. They check out a bunch of equipment from the police station and stake out Mossi's compound.Ryan is now wearing a suit and has his badge on a chain around his neck. He's promoted himself to detective. They go to a nearby apartment to get a better angle to stake out the compound. The apartment is owned by a scene stealing Natasha Leggero who is rolling on Ecstasy. She gets hot for a man in uniform. Ryan goes back to his uniform. They see Mossi get a shipment of large black crates and meet with Andy Garcia. Andy Garcia tells Mossi to lay low because he pulls a picture of Ryan and Justin out of an envelope. Their badge numbers don't match up and he thinks they might be Feds. Naturally, Justin and Ryan are excited to be mistaken for Feds.They need more evidence, particularly to know what was in those black crates, so they take off and pull over the delivery truck that brought them to Mossi. They get it and kidnap the driver Pupa (Keegan-Michael Key). They ineffectively try to torture him, but he explains that he'll help because he doesn't like Mossi either. Mossi is having a party tonight and if they get in, they can find out whats in the cases. Josie comes over and helps make up Justin to look like Pupa.At the party, Mossi forces Justin (now dressed as Pupa) to smoke Crank. He fights and beats one of the henchmen and lets Ryan into the building. They go in the basement and find that inside the crates are confiscated weapons from the police.Ryan wants to continue, but Justin tells him everything has gone too far. Everyone thinks Ryan is a loser and his big injury that kept him from playing football happened while he when he jumped off a roof at a party. Ryan tells Justin that hes a coward and never stands up for himself.Ryan goes to the police station and tells Segars what they found. Also says the reason Mossi was muscling the pizza place is because it's at the other end of a tunnel and that's how Mossi keeps hiding evidence when the police raids him. Hes a about to show Segars what he found, but before he can, Segars decides they should bring the cop in charge of internal investigations in on this. What a surprise, its Andy Garcia! Segars leaves for a moment and Garcia looks at the evidence. Ryan tells him that he made copies.Ryan goes home in a panic as Justin decides to stand up for himself and pitch his game again. Firefighters versus Zombies is a disaster. Justin's pitch serves as a voice over for Ryan's action. Justin's game isn't just a game, its an experience. It lets you feel the intensity and action of being a real cop and in a fire fight. Ryan goes home and it looks clear, but when he turns around, hes shot in the chest with a shotgun. Luckily its a Hollywood shotgun and hes wearing a Hollywood vest, because instead of killing him, it just blows him out the window and onto the dumpster below. He runs as hes being shot at by the mafia. A crooked cop crashes Justin's pitch and a shoot out starts up. Justin runs away and his boss says, "Now that's a pitch! Lets make that game."The mafia kidnaps Ryan. Mossi calls Justin and tells him to come or Ryan's dead. Justin calls Segars and comes clean about everything. In the basement of the compound, Mossi and Garcia torture Ryan. Justin sneaks in through the basement of the pizza place, coming clean to Josie on the way. Riggle shows up at Mossis and Garcia is going to get rid of him. Before hes out of ear shot though, he hears Ryan telling Mossi that Garcia is going to kill him too to cover up all lose ends. Garcia goes back to kill Ryan, but Mossi kills Garcia instead. Justin hears the gunshot and runs to the rescue. He doesn't have a gun though. Luckily Segars does, and hes also on the scene. He shoots one of the henchmen, prompting Mossi and the rest to run off.Segars is going to give chase, but first tells Justin and Ryan to leave because a police outfit isnt a costume, its a uniform. They decide they have to cover Segars back, so they grab some of the stolen weapons and go to help. They're not good at it and it looks like Segars is down, so they run away.Mossi chases them, shoots Justin and fights Ryan. Justin grabs the gun and tries to shoot Mossi, but accidentally shoots Ryan instead. Before Mossi can kill them, Segars shows up, kills Mossi and saves the day. He lets Justin and Ryan go and doesn't turn them in.Justin's game, now called Brothers in Blue is a hit. Ryan becomes a cop for real. Justin asks Josie for a chance to start over and they kiss.Over the end credits, there are various scenes of Ryan and Justin acting inappropriately while dressed as cops.

Tags: murder, flashback

Review:
I have just spent 2 hour on buses and 1 hour on foot to a cinema to watch this movie, and it totally worth it.It is fun and I love it.I admit that there are something in the movie that is not logical or not realistic, but it can still be called a good comedy as long as you do not take all the things so seriously.
But like most growing people, these games end as adults decide to start playing with something that truly interests them and make a career out of it.But sometimes the cops and robbers game is fun enough that the adult wants this to become their life.
Like the characters in Let's Be Cops, their most likely stupid and don't think about the consequences on the people they fool.Justin (played by Damon Wayans, Jr.) and Ryan (played by Jake Johnson) are two best friends that have lived in Los Angeles hoping that their lives here would be better then in Ohio.
The two eventually get good enough to deceive the L.A.P.D. and start doing detective work for a Russian mafia.Every summer there's a movie that I'm gonna find is a surprise that I didn't expect; Let's Be Cops is the surprise.
Third, I feel like that the movie is in on the whole joke of cop clichès and that most of the jokes, especially the jokes that aren't funny, are intentional.I'll give this seven fake police badges out of ten.
Let me just start by saying that this isn't an over the top blockbuster film like everyone seems to expect from every movie that comes out now.
Don't expect the same laugh out loud comedy like New Girl from Let's Be Cops but it can definitely lift your mood and give you an occasional belly laugh..
Perhaps not.Let's Be Cops is about two thirty-year-old best friends, Ryan O'Malley and Justin Miller (Johnson, Wayans), who live in Los Angeles for opportunity, but think it's time to go back to Ohio.
The first little bit when they dress up as cops and start acting like them is pretty funny because we all know everybody would try to abuse their privilege.
While Johnson and Wayans Jr. may not have the established fan base of Martin Lawrence or Ice Cube, there's no denying the films refreshing lack of pretense and the actors' enthusiasm towards the one-trick pony screenplay.Let's cut the BS, what it all comes down to in movies like this is can it make you laugh?
There are some truly inspired moments many of which are provided by Keegan-Michael Key (If Key and Jordan Peele were cast as the hapless fake cops instead of Johnson and Wayans who knows how deliciously absurd this movie could have gotten).
If it's movies like this that people are truly finding funny, then I really think we are looking at the decline of comedy as we know it..
As you walk in the theater to watch "Let's Be Cops" you have to have a little bit of understanding what movie you just paid to fill up 100 minutes of your life.
But since this is a motion picture, their partying does come to stab them in the back as they get involved with a mafia- style gang, which is where we get the meat of the story."New Girl" co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. reteam for this film as Ryan and Justin: two of the biggest losers ever put onto the big screen.
Also among the cast were James D'Arcy as the stereotypical villain, Nina Dobrev as the stereotypical girlfriend, Keagan-Michael Key as an over the top gang member, Rob Riggle as the only person who gets anything done, and a surprising appearance from Andy Garcia as the stereotypical gang leader.When it comes to making a comedy of this style there is a precise formula that is easy to follow, works very well, and as a result is done very often.
The movie makes no sense, it's just illogical even if you're looking for a comedy movie.Let's be cop has a "classic" story, 2 clumsy "looser" guys trying to change their life, then they got into trouble and they decide to face it like men, then they become heroes of the movie.
The lead duo played by Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. show great chemistry and deliver a series of uproariously funny moments that seem to never end.
In essence, this could best be described as an entertaining and laugh- out-loud funny "guilty pleasure"; though illogical decisions and plot holes profuse its every minute, Let's Be Cops ultimately delivers the laughs and thrills, especially given the fact that its last act suddenly shifts into a crime thriller with a few satisfying twists and turns up its sleeve.
The idea for this film was really simple and had the potential to be hilarious, there was endless options for hilarity to ensue but really never got out of 1st gear.I would say there are a lot of chuckles but no laugh out loud moments, there are a lot of missed opportunities where your expecting it to get so out of hand you will fall of your seat laughing but the joke ends up just being done very averagely and not amounting to anything.Jake Johnson is clearly a poor actor, I know he was in new girl and people like that but he comes across as a smug, arrogant unfunny individual who is as likable as Hitler.
Overacting on the part of Damon Wayans Jr, an above normal amount of idiocy for a "realistic" comedy movie displayed by Jake Johnson, and the cliché bimbo girlfriend (who I'm actually a fan of) was played by Nina Dobrev.
Let's Be Cops is a terrible movie with a really poorly written storyline and a decent cast that sadly had no way of making this enjoyable.The two main characters are unlikeable from the moment you meet them and you don't care about them or anything they're doing for the whole movie.It is also just not funny,some parts were enjoyable but absolutely nothing had me properly laughing,I think Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. are both good comedy actors,particularity on New Girl,but they just could not improve on this brutal script.Rob Riggle and Andy Garcia are the movies highlight,it was great to see someone deliver some comedy that actually worked and some good dramatic acting,but they both deserved so much better than this.The movie is also about a half an hour too long,you really don't care about these characters at this point but the story just keeps going,it's only 100 minutes but I honestly thought it was passed 2 hours,I don't think I had ever felt this bored watching a comedy.Little laughs and unlikeable characters,I regret paying money to see this movie and I highly recommend you don't.
but when you see that Jake Johnson's success moment was appearing in a ad about hemorrhoids (or something like that), you can't avoid to get a little annoyed by the repetition, it's unbelievable that a joke so overdone like that one keeps getting screen time.This is a lazy movie, all the jokes where done before, and multiple times, it tries to appeal to being ludicrous-funny, i think, but it's just ludicrous, everything that happens appears to be the product of the imagination of a 12 year old that devotes his life to watch and love generic sitcoms.
But to make an entire feature movie on this particular idea of fake cops requires some serious direction and a strong script with better jokes and situations.Comedy movies are supposed to be funny like Old School, Rat race, Hangover, Liar Liar etc.
"I look like somebody hit me in the face with Lil Wayne."Let's Be Cops is a buddy comedy that falls flat as a feature length film and makes one wonder what the director and the rest of the crew were thinking when they decided to make this.
Nothing stands out either.Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. might be great together in New Girl, but in Let's Be Cops their scenes felt so forced that the comedic elements never work.
Let's be Cops is a funny film, there are lots of laugh out loud scenes and Wayans and Johnson are clearly buds having worked together on New Girl as well, which makes for good chemistry.
The idea of this film is great so I thought I'd watch it but it ended up just being an average comedy that didn't make me laugh all that much.
A mix up of unpleasant and weird people, movie started good, seemed funny, but ended up regreting wasting 2 hours watching it, really needed better event sequencing, the black guy is really obnoxious and annoying, never seemed to be an all-round character..
But as it is a comedy and all we want is to laugh no idea is a bad idea.Let's be Cops is not boring.
At first "Justin" is not willing to go along with "Ryan's" idea but eventually goes against the law and tags along with "Ryan" who buys a cop car off eBay.Both of them end-up partying-it-up dressed-up as cops, having the time of their lives going on actual police calls, then seeking out the bad guys led by "Mossi" played by James D'Arcy who take over local businesses in order to use an underground passage for transporting drugs, money, and weapons.The movie definitely had a great sense of brotherhood between "Ryan" and "Jason." They both had great on-screen chemistry and I hope to see them do another movie together!
As with the recent cop buddy movies you can expect crude jokes painful moments and some laughs.
I guess if you had to only watch 1 movie a year and this is it you would be disappointed..It a classic like Beverly Hills cop of Bad boys.
The two main characters were played by actors I didn't recognize (part of the reason I didn't expect much of the movie), but did a great job of adding to this movies comedy, and I hope to see more of them in the future, especially Damon Wayans Jr..
The movie actually makes a point to show that being a cop is DANGEROUS and wearing a uniform is not a joke.If you liked 21 Jump Street and The Heat...
Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. are not much familiar to me but they acted really well.The story line is not bad.I really enjoyed this movie.I will promote this movie to others who had not watched this movie yet.The funny moments are great than that of the painful scenes.The theme of the movie is different from other comedy movies.Even the title 'Let's be cops' is attractive.The cast of the movie is good.There are some new faces,but they acted well.Rob Riggle and Nina Dobrev acted pretty good.I hope there will bw a second part of this movie.This movie is worth wacthing.
the movie is about a couple of guys ( roommates) a black and white guy,, who accomplished nothing in life after reaching their thirties,,the black guy is an underachiever video game editor and the other is a former pro athlete who is retired because of an injury,,,and by coincidence they went to a costume party wearing cops uniform that ended them getting involved in real police work,,,that ended them blowing the cover of one of the dangerous gangs in the streets and their corrupted police officer backup,,,, I went to watch this movie knowing that it wont be a movie of a value,,,and from the trailer i knew that it wont have a good storyline or acting or anything,,,,so i went to watch it keeping in mind that it will be just for spending joyful time smiling may be laughing sometimes on gags or funny quotes,,,and to be honest i kept in my mind that the reviews from the viewers were fond of the movie even though it was a flop with the critics After keeping all that in my mind,,i tried to be fair and evaluate it as just entertaining movie ,,,but,,,,,,,,,come on people,,,its bad,,,its boring ,,its very predictable,its not even a movie,,,u can try to drag laughs by splashing your face with paint ,,or acting like a clown.,,,but not in a cinema,,,over all the movie is boring,,and it didn't make me laugh at all,,i felt its too dumb to laugh at,,,and you know what,,the stars of the movie are the TV stars of 2 slightly successful shows,,,new girl and happy endings,,,,and i expected much more from them in this movie,,,,baseline i feel bad i wasted my time on this movie,,,i feel bad that it got good reviews from viewers coz this means that cinema isn't a cinema anymore,,,its turning into freak shows.
The films plot is somewhat predictable, and there are no real surprising twists or a storyline, however the comedy and the way that the characters lead you down their own self destruction is quite an amusing watch.
Part the relatively well-formed chemistry between leads Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr, every single minute of Let's Be Cops is formed of something excruciatingly painful to sit through, whether it be generic and plain embarrassing fart or testicle- related humour, a poorly constructed romantic subplot which serves little but to supposedly provide character development for one of the protagonists, or scenes which just last far too long.
I was looking for a movie for a bit to relax, rest your brain and laugh a few times, so some of stupid comedy.
Both Damon and Jake are hilarious, just not in this movie and the savior of this film, Rob Riggle doesn't have enough screen time until late in the film.The premise was fresh, original and funny, but if this is the direction Hollywood is going in, we are in for 7 years back luck.The key to comedy is good writing and the writing here was horrible.
Johnson gets the best lines as his Ryan is a fast talking man child that dreams big and achieves little while Wayans is a little more subdued as Justin but does get some of the films best moments involving an untypical burglary and a high tension party but many jokes within the film fall a little flat and after 30 minutes or so you get the feeling that the creators here didn't exactly know how to take the seriously over the top story.Let's Be Cops over reaches in its story stakes, you get the feeling that if things remained more basic we could've actually had a lot more consistently funny scenes.
But after the first 30 minutes the movie ends up being just another forgettable buddy cop film.Johnson and Wayans did share some moments with each other and the film doesn't lack a supporting cast like other films do.
I don't recommend spending 10.75 on it though.+Johnson & Wayans work well together +first 30 minutes +Dobrev's beauty-Trailers took the jokes -Long periods without laughing -Tries hard to be like Jump Street.6.2/10.
I just want to see a good movie without having to much expectations.WOW!The latest time I am always disappointed with comedy's.
I didn't expect anything from this movie, to be honest, as the ratings are quite (too) low everywhere, and I didn't know the actors.Johnson and Wayans have great chemistry on camera and are believable in their characters, that is the most important thing in cases like this.The story is a police prank gone too far and for too long mixed with a police investigation of a drug cartel.
Of course, this is a formula of a movie, with stereotypes, comedy formulas that work every time, the ending we expect, and situations and dialogues that will make you laugh.
Let's Be Cops stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. as Ryan and Justin, two thirty-something buddies who dress up as police officers for a costume party and soon realize people actually think they are cops, then the funniness begins.
Let's Be Cops has a great premise for a comedy, and actually for the most part the movie lives up to its potential.
While it is no instant classic of a comedy, it definitely packs some entertaining laugh out loud moments.Full Review:I only saw one trailer for Let's Be Cops, and I don't think it was in everyone's radar when it finally released.
It was a perfect comedy as it was funny at times, although it wasn't a consistently hilarious movie you'll still find yourself laughing out loud a lot.
Overall, this movie could have been so much funnier; especially towards the end.I recommend this film only to those who are fascinated by the plot or big fans of the two main actors, Damon Wayans and Jake Johnson..
Let's Be Cops is a funny, witty movie which includes the hilarious Jake Johnson and Damon Wayan's Jr. from the American sitcom New Girl.
So let's be cops." Ryan (Johnson) and Justin (Wayans Jr.) have been friends forever and both have fallen on hard times.
Let's Be Cops was a really funny film with a great story idea.
man, let me just start by saying that this isn't an over the top blockbuster film like everyone seems to expect from every movie that comes out now.
If you have a desire to get enjoyment from a film without becoming emotionally invested in a story that lasts 3 movies or longer with hints and clues popping up all over the place eluding to a next installment of whatever series, (and enjoy comedy of all types) then I would recommend this highly.
If you have a desire to get enjoyment from a film without becoming emotionally invested in a story that lasts 3 movies or longer with hints and clues popping up all over the place eluding to a next installment of whatever series, (and enjoy comedy of all types) then I would recommend this highly.