Observe and Report

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with shots of people in the mall followed by shots of the parking lot where a man in a trench coat runs around flashing different women. Ronnie (Seth Rogan) is reprimanding the two Asian twin security guards saying that they made him look bad. Another guard, Dennis (Michael Pena), tells them that they hurt Ronnie and that no one hurts Ronnie. Ronnie dismisses them.Outside of the mall, a reporter is talking to Ronnie about what happened at the mall. She calls him a security guard and he yells cut and tells her that he is head of mall security. The camera keeps rolling and he asks if shes going to keep going even though she messed up his title, so he calls her doctor.Cut to Brandi (Anna Farris), who is a make up counter salesperson. Ronnie is watching her from a distance. She is talking to her gay friend, Bruce, about a client that she had and laughing. Ronnie walks up laughing hysterically and Brandi stops laughing. Ronnie stops laughing and asks what they were talking about. She asks why he stopped by in a way that shows that she is uninterested. He tells her about the pervert in the parking lot and to be careful. She says shell be fine.Cut to Ronnie and the Yuan twins at the gun range shooting really accurately. They talk about guns and how much cooler it would be if the could carry guns as security guards (there is a gun ban in place). However, they can only carry tasers and mace.Ronnie is now home with his mom watching the news where the interview from earlier that day is playing. The news shows him threatening to murder the pervert. His mom tells him that she is very proud of him. She slurs her words and Ronnie tells her that shes just drunk and she says she isnt. He confesses that part of him thinks that the pervert is the best thing thats happened to him because its his chance to be great. He goes to bed on the couch but wakes up when he hears his mom falling to the ground. He covers her up with a blanket.The next day he gets a cup of coffee from a place at the food court where he meets a girl, Nell (Collette Wolfe), whos new. She had ankle surgery and is in a cast. Her boss comes over and kicks her leg and tells her to keep the traffic area clear and walks away. Ronnie says he disagrees with the bosss methods, but it is a fire hazard. She asks if there really is a pervert and he says yeah and that its his job to protect the people of the mall.Brandi drives to the mall and gets out of her car. The pervert comes up to her, exposes himself and tells her to touch his dick. She screams. In the mall, shes at work, where mall security is asking her questions. Ronnie comes running in and tells the twins to set up a perimeter. The police ask her to come to their office, but she cant walk due to shock so Ronnie carries her. A detective (Ray Liotta) comes to the mall to talk to Brandi. She describes the pervert and the detective thanks her and tells her that hell talk to the other women and go on from there. Ronnie says that Brandi was targeted because shes the prettiest person in the mall and that the pervert will come back to finish the job, which means murdering Brandi. She starts to freak out, but the detective calms her down and leaves. Ronnie gets upset because this was supposed to be his case and now the detective is taking over.Ronnie holds a meeting with all the other guards and explains that they need to catch the pervert. He instructs them to report to him only and dont talk to the police. Later that night, someone breaks into the mall and steals a bunch of sneakers. The next morning the police are called in and the detective is there again asking if the manager has seen anyone suspicious. She says no and he seems satisfied and is about to leave when Ronnie asks her who robbed the store. She says she doesnt know and he asks her again. He then talks to a janitor who doesnt speak English and tells the detective he did it. The detective asks what he said and Ronnie says that he doesnt know because he doesnt speak Spanish. He then accuses another man so the detective asks him if hes seen anyone suspicious. It turns out that the man accused has a restraining order against Ronnie and that Ronnie accused him of having intentions to bomb a Chick-fil-A.The detective and Ronnie are in the office of mall security and the detective goes off on Ronnie saying that he messed up the investigation and he wasted the whole day getting nothing because Ronnie is incompetent then he storms out.Ronnie enters a police station to find out what they are looking for in an applicant. The recruiter gives him some forms to fill out for a background check. He mentions that Ronnie can take a ride along where he can ride with a police officer to see what a typical day would be like. Ronnie fills it out when he gets home.He goes to work the next morning and gets coffee from Nell. He says that the coffee tastes different and mentions that he applied to become a police officer.The detective comes out of the police building and gets into his car. Ronnie is in the back seat and scares him. He says that he is there for his ride along and he cleared it with the captain and that paybacks a bitch. The detective drives with Ronnie in the passengers seat into a bad neighborhood and Ronnie sees all this crime going on in the streets. He stops and points out a corner that he claims is the worst corner hes ever seen. He and other officers have tried to clean it up but theres still a lot of work left. He tells Ronnie that he will let Ronnie patrol it himself that night to make it up to him for getting off on the wrong foot. Ronnie is excited for the opportunity and gets out. The detective drives off and Ronnie yells after him. A young boy and a friend approach him and ask him if he wants to buy crack. Ronnie tries to arrest him but is interrupted by the boys dad. He informs the dad that his son tried to sell him drugs. The dad says its because he works for him. Ronnie says he is going to take his son to jail, and the dad points a gun to Ronnies head. Ronnie lets the boy go. The dad says hell kill Ronnie and Ronnie gets down on his knees. Ronnie stealthily pulls his extendable police baton from out of his sock and unleashes hell. Everyone is beaten and Ronnie is the only one left standing.At the police station the detective is laughing with his friends who cant believe he left Ronnie on the corner. Ronnie comes into the station yelling for the bad guys to sit down. He accuses the detective of setting him up. The detective admits it and asks Ronnie what hes going to do about it. Ronnie says he wants to thank him because he knew that the detective was testing him to see if he had the ability and Ronnie found out he did and that there are 6 to 8 crackheads who can confirm that. He thanks the detective for believing in him. The other detectives laugh silently as Ronnie gives him a hug.Scenes between Ronnie training at the police academy and him at the mall making plans to catch the pervert are shown.Brandi walks out of the mall at night by herself and she thinks someone is following her so she starts to run. It turns out to be Ronnie in a little security car and he offers her a ride. He asks her out to dinner and she points out her car. He keeps driving and refuses to stop until she agrees to go out with him. She says fine and tells him to pick her up next Friday. He starts stroking her hair and she tells him to stop.Nells boss goes off on her again for not keeping her area clean. Ronnie comes for a cup of coffee and asks if shes married because she wears a ring. She says its a purity ring but shes not a virgin, shes a born again virgin. Ronnie says he thought if she was married, she could help him with his date with Brandi.Ronnie is home getting ready and his mom says he looks really handsome. She talks about her first date with his dad. Ronnie asks why he left and she says that he freaked out when Ronnie was born and couldnt take the pressure. He asks if she thinks its his fault that his dad left and she says definitely.Ronnie is waiting outside Brandis place when a car drives up. Brandi gets out of the car and sees Ronnie and asks what hes doing there. He says they had a date and she says she forgot and its late. Ronnie says its OK because he made several reservations. Theyre at a restaurant/bar and Brandi downs a big glass of alcohol. She calls the waitress nurse and asks her for shots of tequila. She talks about how much she hates working at the mall. Ronnie pulls out some prescription pills and Brandi is impressed because she didnt think he partied like that. He claims he parties like that... looks at the instructions on the bottle, "every 4-6 hours." She asks for one and he gives her the whole bottle. She admits that she thought the date was going to suck because she thought he was weird. She downs several shots and then Ronnie takes her home on his motorcycle. She can barely walk and Ronnie kisses her and takes her into her house. He is having sex with her but she seems passed out. He stops and she asks why he stopped so he continues.Ronnie is at the station getting a psych exam and tells the psychiatrist that he took medication for bipolar disease but is currently off. She asks him why his doctors took him off and he says they didnt. She asks him why he wants to be a police officer and he tells her he has this dream where everyone is happily playing in the park but a dark cloud of bad things comes and he steps up and shoots it with a shot gun and then everyone thanks him. Then he starts using his fingers as guns and shoots the psychiatrist, which makes her uncomfortable.Ronnies security guard friends and his mom throw a congratulations party for him. The cake is in the shape of a gun and his mom starts crying and saying how proud she is of him. Dennis gives her a tissue and she starts flirting with him.Brandi is working and putting make up on a customer, when Ronnie stops by with a rose and starts stroking her with it. He tells her to wait for him. Ronnie walks to the food court where Nell tells Ronnie to wait as she wheels herself out from behind the counter to give him his coffee. He smiles and walks out as she watches him. Ronnie arrives at the police station and knocks on the detectives door. The detective is with his friend and says dont say anything or hell give it away. He tells Ronnie to enter. He tells Ronnie that he cant join the academy because he failed the psychological exam. The psychiatrist wrote that Ronnie suffers from delusions and would be dangerous to others and himself. The detectives friend leaves saying that he thought it was going to be funny, but its really just sad. The detective says there is no chance of Ronnie joining the academy. Ronnie leaves and returns to the mall.Nells boss and coworker are making fun of her when Ronnie comes up to the counter. She asks why hes not with the police, and he says he had made it and tried it out for a couple days and didnt like it so hes back. She offers him coffee, which he refuses, saying its the last thing in the world he wants. She starts to cry so he changes his mind and asks for the cup of coffee. Nell says that Roger (her boss) is so mean to her. She cant quit because of the doctor bills and insurance. Ronnie bursts into the kitchen area and bashes Rogers head into the oven. He threatens to murder Roger if he says one more thing to Nell. He walks out and tells Nell that he was never there.Ronnie and Charles, one of the security guards are putting a boot on the car of the guy Ronnie accused of planning to blow up the Chick-fil-A. He starts flipping out and Ronnie tells Charles to take out his taser. Ronnie grabs it and hits the guy.Ronnie is in the guards office when the Yuan twins come in with a clue about the pervert. Its a Polaroid of a penis, which Ronnie identifies as Charles. Ronnie opens up to Dennis saying he is a dick and puts the picture on his forehead. Dennis opens up to Ronnie saying that he looks up to Ronnie and reveals that he knows how to mess with the system. He asks Ronnie if he is ready to learn from him. Ronnie accepts.Ronnie and Dennis do drugs, drink, graffiti walls, watch women, attack skateboarders, etc. Dennis admits to Ronnie that its him who robs the mall after hours while taking jewelry. Ronnie gets serious and says he cant be a part of it. Ronnie asks him to stop and Dennis hits him over the head with a board. Dennis steals the raffle car and drives away.The security supervisor is yelling at Ronnie for not knowing it was Dennis and letting him get away. Ronnie has another Polaroid of the perverts penis (real one this time). The supervisor says that hell hand it over to the police. Ronnie says that finding the pervert is his last shot at redemption so he cant give it to the police. Ronnie decides to go undercover to catch the pervert. He does a Batman monologue. He sees Brandi get into her car and follows her just to see that she is having sex with the detective (Liotta). He storms into her work the next day and yells at her and blows his cover.The detective is looking for Ronnie who wont leave the mall. He tells the police officers who are with him to get Ronnie. Ronnie starts defeating them one by one while the detective looks on. Ronnie is eventually taken down and Charles comes to the rescue. Ronnie and the detective start fighting and Ronnie is taken down and taken to jail.Ronnie goes home and tells his mom that he lost his job. His mom starts talking but she doesnt know what shes talking about because shes drunk. Shes thankful to Ronnie for not throwing her away and shes ready to make a change by switching to beer. She gives him a postcard from Dennis in Mexico. Dennis admits that he respects Ronnie for caring so much.Ronnie is at the food court where Nell walks up to him with a cup of coffee. He asks how much he owes her because he doesnt have free coffee rights anymore. Nell kisses him. The streaker flashes them and runs away. He is running with his jacket flapping open so everyone can see everything. Ronnie chases him and punches bomb threat guy on the way. Ronnie runs into some people and falls on the floor. The streaker stops by Brandis place and runs up to her. Brandi drops her tray of samples and Ronnie appears and shoots the pervert. The security supervisor comes and yells at Ronnie for killing him. The pervert moves and the supervisor relaxes. The Yuan twins come and point a taser at the pervert. The supervisor says to call an ambulance and Ronnie says that hell take him to the station himself. The supervisor gives Ronnie the mall keys back. Brandi says good job and Ronnie announces to everyone, "f you want a slut that will have sex with you and then fuck your sworn enemy, THIS IS THE GIRL!" People clap as Ronnie leaves.Ronnie gives the pervert to the detectives and tell them that he doesnt need their badge or gun to know who he is. He drives off and is interviewed by the news lady and reveals that he and Nell are together and that he intends to make her break her promise to God by having sex with her.

Tags: cult, comedy, humor, violence, melodrama

Review:
Taboos are there to be exposed and smashed, and if you like your comedy to be near the knuckle and ground breaking then you will definitely love this film.Seth is fantastic in the lead role.
It is a comedy and the suspension of disbelief is paramount to the viewer's enjoyment.In a nutshell, if you are not easily offended, like your humor to be in your face and boundary pushing (and most importantly, fairly sick) then you will love this film and laugh out loud throughout.One other thing, the soundtrack is absolutely awesome with a great cover version of The Pixies' 'Where is my mind?' during one of the funniest scenes in the film, as well as a rocking song by Pyramid (a band I'd never heard of) during the end credits.One of the best comedies I've seen in recent years, up with Bruno and Black Dynamite.
'Observe and Report' marks a big step for Seth Rogen; as opposed to his good-natured, man-child teddy bear image from 'Knocked Up' and 'Zack and Miri Make an Porno', O&R sees Seth playing a bi-polar mall cop determined to save his workplace from a serial streaker.
Rogen is excellent as Ronnie Barnhardt, who is rude to most people, yet is still kind of likable and ia infatuated with Brandi (Anna Faris) the blonde makeup consultant, even having sex with her when she's virtually unconscious.The thing that sticks out in this movie is the violence, which is brutal at times.
This movie surprised me in a very positive way, i really liked the balance of dark and gritty comedy but at the same time also cute and beautiful (often in a very twisted way).It was a refreshing movie to watch, maybe not as good as Bad-Ass (exact same kind of twisted humor) but nevertheless a movie that shouldn't be missed by anyone who loves dark comedy.With comedy and horror it's impossible to go by the IMDb score, i think a 6 a way too low rating for this movie, but if you're frequent IMDb visitor you know about this already.
At one point later, there is mention of his being a bipolar case, but not just to lend clarification to his behavior but more to ground him in a real-world everyman situation which makes his heroic, narcissistic delusions all the more unexpectedly genuine.Seth Rogen's Ronnie Barnhardt exemplifies both the old-school hardass and the modern-day dumbass, and while he merely defends the domain of Forest Ridge Mall, he does so with an aggrandized self-image and the most brutal of temperaments.
Rather, he's an archetype of misled masculine vigor on a mission: to stop the flasher who has been threatening his territory.One would imagine it'd be a light storyline, one convenient for the cheaper tendencies of SNL or MAD TV, yet Rogen and writer-director Jody Hill extract a subversively funny character study about a depraved man and his perverse perception of what it means to be a hero.
It is a boring, stultifying environment where banality is seen as the highest good and crass consumerism is the almighty God. Certain professions like security guard seem to attract nutballs, guys who dream of a police badge and a gun yet have to settle for chasing off skateboarders from the mall parking lot while carrying mace and at most a tazer.
Hill's direction is well done, but the film is an absolute mess.Seth Rogen's performance is one of the best and hilarious performances from a comedy since probably Steve Carell's in 40 Year Old Virgin.
Seth Rogen plays a hyped up mall security guard who wants nothing more than to be able to carry a gun and carry off Anna Faris' charactera hot counter girl at the mall.While it will receive obvious comparisons with Paul Blart: Mall Cop, the world of Observe and Report makes Blart's look like Rodeo Drive on a warm spring day.
Hill has a gift for mining comedy out of the mundane, and he effectively populates his mall with a hilarious food court of human pain.Rogen adds a surprising depth to his usual comic genius as the bipolar Ronnie.
Like Hill's previous film, The Foot Fist Way, what Observe and Report really needs is a few more laughs.
I like Seth Rogan, and Anna Faris, and I like this genre, too.Instead of the funny, goofy, and escapist trip I expected, I saw a very sad and even depressing movie.
If there's anything this movie did, it reminded me that a bad enough script can turn even the most likable people (Seth Rogen who I normally love) into annoying losers that you want to shut up and die.I can't believe people are trying to call this "a dark comedy".
"Well, i'm gonna do a comedy starring Seth Rogen, but it will have these really deep sub- plots that are really serious and emotional, it will be this insane combo like nothing you have ever seen in a movie before"...
all of them!!!) "I can totally just poop out a garbage script with no relevance or thought and it will be funny anyways because it's Seth Rogen and no one will notice how non-linear, shallow, and terrible the movie actually is..."I feel bad for the person who wrote this movie.
Seriously...I could easily crap out a better movie than this in a day.The only thing that gave the movie a 2 instead of a 1, is because of the guy they picked to play the pervert/flasher...his full frontal performance during the finale was one of the only memorable scenes in the film.
It is easy to prejudge Observe and Report, because the plot summary from this movie seems to indicate that it will explore the same territory as the atrocious Paul Blart: Mall Cop, because we also have a security guard from a shopping whose detective fantasies and delusions of greatness contrast with his ineptitude and zero authority.So, I started watching Observe and Report expecting a horrible movie, but I ended up taking a very nice surprise with it, because this comedy shows unexpected audacity and a twisted sense of humor which is much more dark and subversive than many comedies which imitate director Judd Apatow's style (like Semi-Pro or Forgetting Sarah Marshall).The result was a simultaneously funny, dramatic...and also disturbing experience.Although it is structured as a comedy (and it really has various hilarious moments), I think it would be more precise to describe Observe and Report as a perverse parody which uses the bipolar disorder as a replacement of the generic stupidity which usually motivates the immature characters from the new North American comedy.By adding a medical condition as an excuse of the inappropriate and scandalous behaviours from the main character, the movie achieves to set itself on a different level, where the jokes keep being funny but they leave a bad taste which stays with the spectator for a long time.To explain this more clearly, I will compare two similar scenes on their shape, but deeply different on their effect: on the film Role Models, Paul Rudd's character insults a kid with enthusiasm, and that made me laugh because it shows the immature adult catching up to the level of his child rival; on Observe and Report, Seth Rogen's character makes the same, but his face expresses genuine aggression which borders on the abuse, and although that scene made me laugh, it is accompanied by a sensation of pity on the character.The best element is that things like that feel very natural in this movie.The fails I found on it are some forced moments and other ones which feel a bit unnecessary.However, I liked Observe and Report pretty much because of its audacious intention, grotesque humor and solid performances.Rogen shows a lot of conviction on his character; Ray Liotta perfectly transmits intensity on his role; Anna Faris is very funny (as always); Michael Peña is brilliant as a Mexican security guard; and Patton Oswalt has a short but funny appearance.It may not be a great film, but I found Observe and Report to be a very competent comedy, and I recommend it with confidence..
This movie was one of the worst movies I have seen in years I watched it because people said it was funny there was a couple scenes that me me chuckle but nothing really laugh out loud.
Observe and Report is supposed to be dark and twisted, but it's nothing more than you're average Norbit or Bedtime Stories-a generic comedy with pathetic laughs aimed at the masses, using violence in an attempt to pretend to be something more.That being said, I would like to urge everyone to see Big Fan, which should be coming to theaters soon.
Wow. With every 'Knocked up,' 'Superbad' and 'Zack & Miri,' I guess we had to expect a dud like 'Observe & Report.' After all, doesn't Seth Rogen make a new movie/comedy/cartoon every 15 weeks?
The premise of the film is basically about a Naive Mall Cop (Seth Rogan) who suffers from Bi-Polar, his aim in life is to become a Police officer, without going into too much detail and spoiling it, he sets his target of finding a Flasher that is terrorising customers of the Mall to prove to an investigating police officer (Ray Liotta) he is capable of doing his job.
Very Dark and Very Funny, But That's Not All. I went in to the movie theater to see "Observe and Report" knowing it was going to be a lot darker than a typical goofball comedy.
After all, if it came out two months after another slapstick film like "Paul Blart: Mall Cop", it better not be the same movie.
Just like Adam Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love", if you come in with more of an open mind, you'll see that Seth Rogen's darker side can carry a movie very well.
An anonymous pervert (Randy Gambill) begins flashing women in the parking lot, and after he exposes himself to cosmetic hottie Brandi (Anna Faris), Ronnie takes it upon himself to find the flasher and bring him to justice.Observe and Report, the second film about a mall cop this year after Paul Blart: Mall Cop, is one of the most polarizing films I have ever seen.
His performance is the most mean-spirited in the film (saying a lot for what kind of person Ronnie is), and Liotta's twisted sense of morality and judgment makes for a great character to play off of Rogen.
The movie seemed to come out of nowhere and did not get a lot of publicity which is rather odd for a film starring Seth Rogen.
Seth Rogen being the nice humble guy he is, probably couldn't turn down the role no matter how unfunny he thought it was.The movie had jokes that give you a chuckle and not a huge laugh like in his other movies.
All in all Observe and Report is an unfunny comedy, which I guess wouldn't make it a comedy, so I guess you can just call it a movie starring Seth Rogen with other actors trying to make jokes..
If you thought My Best Friends Girl(2008) was bad, and it still is, but Observe and Report is a half a second behind it.The story begins with Ronnie(Seth Rogen) a security guard at a mall, who longs to be a big shot police detective, and he longs for the make up girl named Brandi(Anna Faris).
Jody Hill may hate the fact that his movie is constantly getting compared to the other mall-cop movie of the year, "Paul Blart", but "Observe And Report" is in many ways the complete opposite of "Paul Blart".
It's like Hill has no idea what comedy means.In the end "Paul Blart" and "Observe And Report" do have one thing in common: They are both extremely low on laughs.
When afore-mentioned perv flashes the sexy shallow make-up counter girl Brandi(Anna Faris,shedding any reserve here,if she ever had any),Ronnie goes from "heading up" the investigation to making it some sort of personal mission,a Quixotic endeavor to augment his dual sense of duty and an empty but destiny-bound personal life.I have yet to see either writer/director Jody Hill's first film,Foot Fist Way,or his HBO series "Eastbound and Down",but his sophomore effort had heightened my curiosity.
In this film,Hill presents Ronnie as somewhat of a contradiction: a near-fascistic believer in law and order whose sense of creating that order is something out of a violent,sadistic nihilistic nightmare/fantasy,peppered with quasi-racist and thick-headed assumptions,all the while he's holding fast to his dreams while setting brave face against the very real facts(that he's become almost blissfully oblivious to)of his bi-polar disorder,the fact that he's generally mocked or not taken seriously by most anyone outside of his close group of friends(including but not limited to the same Police department he so longs to join) and that his heavy-drinking mother(Celia Weston,fantastic in what could be considered a strictly ancillary role)seems as oblivious to his problems as he is to his own.This is another movie that seems to garner a lot of "10"s,"9"s,"8"s,"3"s,"2"s or "1"s;in other words,not much middle ground of opinion.
I will have to say that it isn't Seth Rogen's best work, but is still worth going to see because he always produces a few big laughs which are very hard to do for people like me that only like weird humor.
But that aside, movie itself is loaded with dark humor that sometimes may seem out of line, but if you go in the movie with the right mindset you are able to experience comedy, in a sort of similar style as Jody Hills previous works as "Eastbound and Down" and "Fist Foot Way", of course there are many situations where you just have no idea who to root for, and who is supposed to be the good guy, but that is the whole point, making the main hero sort of anti-hero with his crazy antics and little to no regard to safety of those around.
It's not the 'offensive factor' I'm bothered about, and I love Seth Rogen's other performances...just that the movie is devoid of any humour for 95% of the film, and I was under the impression it was supposed to be a comedy.Basically....avoid it like the Ebola virus, it's pants..
And for all those people that disagree with this and think it shouldn't be in movies, well too bad, not all movies are going to be in Pleasantville.Personally i thought it was a real good movie, some of the violence caught me off guard and made somewhat uncomfortable but after some of the earlier parts of this movie, you can't be too surprised.The trailers were a lie, this is not a goofy comedy of Paul Blart style, this is not a date movie, and this is most definitely not something most people will love like Superbad or 40 Year Old Virgin.
I had never heard of Seth Rogan before I saw this film and had to look up his credits on IMDb. This movie is a real black comedy like Doctor Strangelove and The 'burbs only not as good.
I think this was supposed to be funny, but it's just awful, filled with cringe-worthy moments and terrible comic timing.Ronny (Rogen) is the head of security at a suburban shopping mall.
Even the crime Rogen is bent on solving - a portly flasher running around the mall terrorizing shoppers - is ridiculously mediocre in terms of dramatic effectiveness and leads to a completely underwhelming finale.If there is a single fun or funny moment in this film, I must have missed it, but credit writer/director Jody Hill with turning an appealing, talented case (Ray Liotta, Jesse Plemens) into charmless, unlikable bores.
i don't see the appeal of this movie.apparently it's part comedy,but i guess i didn't get the memo about that,because i didn't find it funny.check that.i did actually laugh out loud once.but i forgot exactly what it was i laughed about before the movie was over.so there there are no real laughs.there is however an abundance of crude language,and there's even some male full frontal nudity,if that's what floats your pontoons,though i'm not saying these are good things.for me,the characters are mostly unsympathetic and shallow and inspire nothing more than indifference towards them.the only decent character in the whole bunch has very little screen time.there are a few things that keep it from being a complete wash.the main character has one or two scenes in which he actually seems like he could almost be a decent human being.there's also good action sequence in the earlier stages of the movie,and it isn't boring.best of all though,it's mercifully short,at less than ninety minutes,even with the end credits.for me,Observe and Report is a 4/10.
But this inexcusable attempt at comedy as I have witnessed this atrocity driven picture, Observe & Report is his worst performance to date.Not to say Hollywood hasn't been beating a horse that was never funny in the first place, Mall Cops, this film takes it to uncreative places.
Watching Observe And Report, I remembered who Seth Rogen's character reminded me of.
They can make films that are mass-appealing, we know that...now it's time to have a little fun.In Observe And Report, you can tell that Seth Rogen and Jody Hill are getting slightly bored with the whole comedy thing...but just slightly.
It's too bad the makers of this film didn't take that line out because it gives reviewers like myself a perfect tagline to sum up the whole film.Seth Rogen plays Ronnie, a determined - if obsessive - mall cop who one day plans of becoming a Police Officer, enforce the law and conquer his love in the form of an Anna Faris.
What both films do seem to miss though is the fact that literally no-one finds the subject of an overweight mall security guard interesting.With very little to like and a supporting cast chiseling away at your patience, "Observe and Report" features minimal laughs and an unlikeable Seth Rogen.