10 April 2012
Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro are LAPD cops unwillingly forced into a buddy-buddy cop-opera for "reality TV", in which De Niro's Dirty Harry-type blows it and Murphy's incompetent patrol man turns in an Oscar-worthy performance.
There's an idea here: the media belongs to those who can manipulate it. But it's buried under a continuous hee-haw gag about cops doing their work when the camera's in their face. And this, in turn, is sidetracked into an overkill plot about drug dealers who own a supergun that fires uranium-depleted, armour-plated shells that can demolish a whole bungalow.
Irony is the loser in a show about ironware. And even the pretend out-takes in the end credits are unfunny.
Showtime
Cert: cert12
