It's a movie that shamelessly trafficks in the clichés of other cop movies, while also engaging both characters and audience in the spectator sport of catching references to those very movies.

A movie that makes little sense, is dumb when it's not being stupid and yet is still at times laugh-out-loud funny.

While the plot is as flimsy as a hooker's halter top, it's buoyed by two actors with attitude and timing.

Definitely has its amusing moments, but ultimately all that improvised shtick gets mighty tired without any real break in the nonaction.

Without that heightened racial antipathy-turned-camaraderie, there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn).