Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Steineded How sad is this?

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

dandbone I enjoyed this movie, even if it wasn't meant to be the second coming of the Lethal Weapon. This was supposed to be a philosophical movie, but since such movies get Oscar and then end up with no one watching them, they thought to make the heroes cops. There is a lot of subtext to the movie. One of the cops is a family man, while the other is a drunkard who never goes to bed sober. The first seems to live a happy family life, while the second drinks out of despair. They seem to be completely amoral, robbing robbers, beating up suspects, and... completely neglecting the paperwork. Or, that's one way to see it. The other way is that they only care about what matters, their own lives, freedom, their families and friends. They appear not to give a damn about their assigned role in society, and the movie send the message that neither should we. And if we have second thoughts, we should know that those above us, that we protect by doing our duty, don't care either. That, I think was the metaphor with the English lord. Apart from the subtext, the movie has many cool moments, and great music. It also has the feeling of a seventies movie. Since it's a movie about freedom, I guess it has to feel like that.

fishguy-20977 This was way more than I expected, and it was the cap to a really good day. I was flying back to the US from Switzerland, and I had snagged a first class seat with United being a standby guy. After a great four-course meal and some lovely drinks, I decided it was time to watch a movie. I look through everything, and I don't see much. But, then, I find this movie. I like Pena, and I figured right away that it was Stellan's kid starring along with him. Skarsgard isn't a popular name. So, I put it on. Within about a minute, I knew I was going to like it.It was certainly all over the place (in a good way), and I would never have guessed they would go to Iceland, but, hey, go figure. The entire throwback nature of the film and soundtrack was just what I was looking for. Glen Campbell's music along with some other interesting choices was right up my allay. Sadly, Glen died about a week after I got back in town. It was fun to see Iceland. As someone who just went there, too, it was fun to see that they were really there. The movie did suffer a tiny bit at the end I thought, but, overall, it was a freaking fun movie that I recommend to anyone with a twisted, off-the-wall sense of humor.

targe1314 If you have enjoyed good 70's detective homages such as The Other Guys and Jackie Brown, then it is very disappointing to see a director completely ruin a potential new hit and cult movie here.You can tell how disjointed and badly edited this movie is by the soundtrack, which tries multiple times to 'get us in the vibe' with cheesy 1970's cop show licks, only for the music to die an agonizing death as nothing at all happens during it. We are left watching endless boring stretches of film that should have been cut (the seemingly 5 minutes long part of the main gangster walking from his bedroom downstairs is one)The two main characters, one a self-absorbed prick who likes to lounge in his silk kimono and make fun of his fat son, and the other, a total alcoholic loser who likes hitting on strippers, are NOT funny. NOT at all. The fall-flat jokes come at us a mile a minute, and the movie tries to see-saw between shocking black comedy and yuk yuk make fun of it comedy and oh so serious cop drama. It's a total mess and not worth your time, frankly.

alindsay-al I had heard about this film a while back and I have now gotten around to seeing it and I got to be honest this film is really bad. The premise of this film sees a couple of corrupt cops attempt to get the best out of there job while a criminal attempts to take them down. Now the best thing in this film is pretty easy to see, that is Michael pena and his performance, even though far from his best he tries his best to give a decent performance with a few fun laughs. Alexander skaarsgard plays his partner in this film and he is truly awful in this film, he is so unlikeable that you really don't care about him or anything that he does in this film. The supporting cast is completely forgettable whether it is Theo James as the villain or Tessa Thompson as a love interest or anybody else none of them stand out or give any performance that you care about. The story is all over the place and really doesn't create one likable character in this scenario or one story beat where you will care about anybody or anything in this film. The script I will admit does have some funny lines in it and I did chuckle sometimes. But it is not enough and any of the dramatic dialogue is ridiculously bland. The style of the film is awful, I get that these lead characters are not really meant to be good people but there is nothing here that gives you any reason you no reason to care about in the action scenes. Overall I hate this film and I believe that it should be avoided at all cost unless you just like dark comedies that don't have much quality.