Summary
The movie is a kind of homage. You can tell because in an early scene, Paul (30 Rock's Tracy Morgan) tells his partner Jimmy (Bruce Willis) that he wants to question their current suspect, and that he will do it by paying homage to old movies. He then quotes lines from several films SEmD Heat, Training Day, Star Wars, Schindler's List ---- to the baffled criminal, and don't worry if you don't get them all, because Jimmy sits outside the interrogation room and says, "Heat?," or "Schindler's List?," as the occasion requires. Paul also mispronounces "homage," which is, in a way, perfect.
There's a plot here, of sorts: Jimmy, who's divorced, doesn't have the money to pay for the wedding of his daughter, and if he can't, her stepfather (Jason Lee, playing the straight guy) will do so. This would be too much for Jimmy to bear, for some reason: It's difficult to tell, because Willis's distant performance doesn't allow for much in the way of acting. The actor appears to have signed up for Cop Out by mistake, and he compensates by falling back on the default Willis expression, the smirk, to convey a variety of emotions. You'd smirk too if you were being paid for this.See the full content of this document
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