Let's Be Cops Page #8

Synopsis: It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Luke Greenfield
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
30
Rotten Tomatoes:
18%
R
Year:
2014
104 min
Website
1,463 Views


He's using the tunnel as an escape

route to get rid of all the stuff.

I cracked the case, man.

I'm getting so good

at this that it's scary.

Where are you

going with that?

To the police station,

to turn it in.

No, you're not.

We're mailing it in...

anonymously like we said.

Justin, come on.

This is my collar.

No one can know

this was us.

What is wrong with you?

I worked hard on this.

Why are you

getting so pissed off?

Because I almost

died in there!

All right.

Look at my face!

I smoked crystal meth!

That's not funny!

All right.

And for what? So you could

have some self-worth for once?

Where is this

coming from, man?

I didn't do this for my

self-worth or whatever!

I did it to get a guy like

Mossi off the streets...

and we're going to!

Unlike you,

who runs away...

anytime anything

in your life gets tough!

And maybe that's why

you're still nowhere.

Oh, I'm still nowhere? Me?

Yeah, you.

You've been moping

around for 8 years!

Complaining about, "Oh, life screwed

me. That's why I didn't go pro."

Life did screw me.

That's why I didn't go pro.

You jumped off

a roof at a pool party.

That's how you

injured yourself.

Be careful of where

you're going right now.

Life didn't screw you.

You screwed yourself.

Take some

responsibility for once.

Why don't you act

like a man for once,

because you might

like the way it feels.

You know what?

Everyone was right about you.

About what?

You're a loser.

Be a man.

All right, okay.

I'll show you what a man does.

I'll show you what a man does!

You got Mossi?

I got him.

Wow.

In this envelope,

lgotenough hard evidence...

to put away Mossi Kasic

for a lot of years.

Holy cow!

You and Chang make

a great team, you know?

Yeah.

I gotta get this in the right

hands right away. Can you help?

Detective Brolin.

You've heard of him.

He's in charge of the Organized

Crime Division. He's gonna love this.

Might as well go

straight to the top.

Straight to the top.

Let's do this.

Mmm.

What's up, baby girl?

Carl, park in my spot one more time

and I'm gonna punch you in the dick.

Larry! F*** you!

Okay. Okay.

Okay!

All right!

There he is.

Detective Brolin.

I would like you to meet

Sergeant O'Malley.

O'Malley, this is

Detective Brolin.

Pleasure.

Yeah.

Have a seat.

Sergeant O'Malley says he's

got some hard evidence...

on Mossi Kasic.

Enough to take him

and his whole crew down.

There's some things

in here I didn't put-

It's okay.

It's okay. I wanna take

a look at it anyway.

Sergeant O'Malley has been

doing some surveillance...

of Mossi and his crew

for quite awhile now.

I think he's got some

good stuff in there, sir.

He seems pretty

excited about it.

Give us a minute alone.

Yes, sir.

Not you.

Relax.

Who are you?

I asked a question.

Who are you?

Before you do anything, I

already made copies of that.

Do you have a family?

Are your parents

still alive?

Yeah, my parents

are alive- No.

I am running a routine

undercover investigation...

to bring down Mossi Kasic...

and you're interfering.

That's not true.

Oh, it's not true?

No.

Well, whoever you are...

I suggest you run,

very far away...

and grow eyes in

the back of your head...

because you're never gonna

know when it's coming.

Do you know who I am?

I'm the guy who's gonna-

Take me down.

You've been

watching too many movies.

Yeah.

But I'm still

gonna take you down.

So I guess we'll see.

I guess we'll see.

Hey, O'Malley,

where are you going?

I forgot something

in my car, Segars.

Wow.

This sucks sh*t.

This isn't cool.

When I came up

with it, it was cool.

Where are

their superpowers?

We can give the

firefighters superpowers.

It's just...

It's just what?

It's just your

idea sucks sh*t, Todd.

What was that? I said

your idea sucks sh*t.

Justin, where are you? Call

me as soon as you get this.

You know that mobster, the guy

we thought was Mossi's boss?

He's a cop.

And he's got all

of our evidence...

which means Mossi

knows everything.

Holy sh*t, dude!

We're dead! Dead! Dead!

Okay, no.

Everything is

gonna be fine.

Nothing can

trace back to us.

His name is

Ryan O'Malley,

and he currently

lives with this guy...

Justin Miller.

Okay, print everything out

and bring it to my office.

Hold on a second.

I found the problem.

They're not even real cops.

What do you mean

they're not real cops?

Just what I said!

We gotta take care

of this right away.

Get it done!

I want the word on the street,

underground! Anyone who gets them!

You're not even supposed to

be in here, let alone talking.

A bunch of

shirtless firefighters...

spraying zombies

with their hoses?

What kind of game you

trying to make, bro?

I'm gonna give you one second

to get the f*** out of here.

You like that?

This guy is crazy.

Yeah, ese.

Now, a few weeks ago...

I pitched you a game

and you didn't listen.

That really

hurt my feelings.

You were there.

So were you.

Now, I'm going to

pitch my game again

and you're going

to hear me out...

or I'm going to beat the sh*t

out of everyone in this room.

And I've fought

women before.

I didn't Win...

but I'm down

to redeem myself.

What if we made

a game so visceral...

that it made you feel like

you were in real life danger?

To feel like it's

about to go down?

Don't think of it as a game.

Think of it as

a real life experience.

You are a cop.

My game is about

getting into situations

you wouldn't be in

in your normal life.

Situations that

are dangerous.

Real.

Where it felt like you

could actually get killed.

Aah!

Real violence isn't

like in the movies.

There he is!

Gunfire is terrifying.

Bullets are sick.

They blast and rip

through everything.

But isn't that what

people want, right?

To really feel what it's

like to be in the sh*t?

That's what I'm

talking about, people.

Excuse me.

Justin, there is a police

officer in the lobby to see you.

No, no. You can tell

Ryan to wait, please.

Justin! Do not go home!

I'm coming to your work!

We are in

a lot of trouble-

No,no,no.

No,no,no!

I can assure you that I will

make this thing more real...

than anything you have

ever seen in your life.

How are you gonna show us

this realistic violence, huh?

Freeze!

Nobody move!

YOuI

That's a presentation!

Let's make this game!

Aah!

What the f*** have

you guys been doing, huh?

Dude, where

the hell are you?

Are you having fun?

Justin Miller.

You wanna be a cop? Average

police response time...

12 minutes.

Average time it takes for a

man to bleed out, 7 minutes.

You do the math.

Ryan.

Ryan!

Don't come, Justin!

Run! Run!

Ryan!

F***!

Officer Segars.

Segars, it's Justin.

Who?

It's Chang. I'm Chang.

Chang? What the hell,

you piece of sh*t!

I'm hearing all kinds of

crazy things! I know, I know.

And what you heard is true.

We're not cops.

It's true? But everything I'm

about to tell you right now is real.

Mossi has got Ryan,

and he is gonna kill him.

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Luke Greenfield

Luke Greenfield (born February 5, 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the 2004 film The Girl Next Door. Greenfield directed the pilot of the television series Aliens in America and produced the film Role Models. His newest film, Let's Be Cops, which he co-wrote, produced and directed, opened on August 13, 2014. more…

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