This movie was so bland it's no wonder I kept zoning in and out. This standard cop movie broke no new ground in the genre and only succeeded in throwing millions of dollars down the drain. I guess they figured by casting Eddie Murphy in the lead that would be enough. Sorry, you gotta do better.
Eddie Murphy plays Inspector Scott Roper, an SFPD negotiator. He's the protagonist in a cop movie which means he's badass. He loses his friend to a murdering thief early in the movie and has to confront that same murderer later in a hostage situation. We got our customary shootouts, car chase, and explosions. I bet the writer thought he was being really smart when Roper's girlfriend, Veronica (Carmen Ejogo), was kidnapped for an exchange! How original!!
The movie started slipping into the darkness with me pretty early on, but the biggest plunge would have to be when Ronnie (Veronica) invited Roper over "just for dinner." Their relationship was the classic, I'm-through-with-you beginning which eventually becomes a steamy romantic make up/affair. It was clear that they had a thing at one time and Ronnie dumped Roper. She moved on to a baseball player while Roper stayed single. After rebuffing Roper several times Ronnie decided one day that he could come over for dinner only (code word: we'll be having sex by the end of the night).
"Where is your baseball player?" Roper asked.
"He's on a road trip," she replied.
I'm not to savvy when it comes to women, but am I missing something? Is "on a road trip" code for "he left me for another woman," because that guy was never around again and Ronnie jumped in the sack with Roper faster than a frog after a fly.
The movie just kept devolving from there. Eddie clearly mailed it in. He wasn't funny at all, and in fact he opted for an angry ranting role over his normal wittier self.
I wouldn't be spoiling a thing if I told you he saved his woman and killed the bad guy, Michael Korda (Michael Wincott). It was simply a matter of when not if as you could expect from a generic cop movie.
Eddie Murphy plays Inspector Scott Roper, an SFPD negotiator. He's the protagonist in a cop movie which means he's badass. He loses his friend to a murdering thief early in the movie and has to confront that same murderer later in a hostage situation. We got our customary shootouts, car chase, and explosions. I bet the writer thought he was being really smart when Roper's girlfriend, Veronica (Carmen Ejogo), was kidnapped for an exchange! How original!!
The movie started slipping into the darkness with me pretty early on, but the biggest plunge would have to be when Ronnie (Veronica) invited Roper over "just for dinner." Their relationship was the classic, I'm-through-with-you beginning which eventually becomes a steamy romantic make up/affair. It was clear that they had a thing at one time and Ronnie dumped Roper. She moved on to a baseball player while Roper stayed single. After rebuffing Roper several times Ronnie decided one day that he could come over for dinner only (code word: we'll be having sex by the end of the night).
"Where is your baseball player?" Roper asked.
"He's on a road trip," she replied.
I'm not to savvy when it comes to women, but am I missing something? Is "on a road trip" code for "he left me for another woman," because that guy was never around again and Ronnie jumped in the sack with Roper faster than a frog after a fly.
The movie just kept devolving from there. Eddie clearly mailed it in. He wasn't funny at all, and in fact he opted for an angry ranting role over his normal wittier self.
I wouldn't be spoiling a thing if I told you he saved his woman and killed the bad guy, Michael Korda (Michael Wincott). It was simply a matter of when not if as you could expect from a generic cop movie.