Let's Be Cops 2014

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: This notion might have worked perfectly well in sketch form, but stretched out to feature length - in a film that's overlong at nearly two hours - it grows thin, repetitive and wearying. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: Let's be clear: No one should choose this movie. It's a title in search of a plot. It could also have been called Let's Be Funnier, Let's Be Directed, Let's Be 15 to 30 Minutes Shorter, Let's Be 22 Jump Street. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The only truly lethal weapons in the criminally unfunny action comedy "Let's Be Cops'' are the lame script, putrid direction and pair of sitcom stars mugging nonstop in frantic pursuit of laughs that have fled over the state line. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Sporadically hilarious funny business. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: At times, the movie seems to exist for no other purpose than to collide these two personalities together, privileging their antagonistic banter above all else. But isn't that the basic point of all buddy comedies? Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: A ridiculous comedy whose greatest sin is one of omission: a lack of humor. And that's a hard one to forgive. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: None of this is as riotously zany as it wants to be. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Let's not and say we did. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: The promising tang of something anarchically amusing is in the air, which makes the rote, slipshod and unfunny rest of the movie all the more dispiriting - like a drug that's as much fun as precinct paperwork. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: The chillingly gung-ho darkness that Johnson lends his comic riffs would be the story, if only the director, Luke Greenfield, didn't play the movie solely for laughs, which are few and far between. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: You have the right to remain silent and, for much of "Let's be Cops," you will be. Read more

Andy Webster, New York Times: "You've been watching too many movies," says a detective (Andy Garcia) during an interrogation in "Let's Be Cops." The same could be said for the filmmakers, who hit predictable beats in this disposable comedy. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Let's earnestly hope there is no sequel. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: More often than not feels more like a court-ordered defensive-driving class than a rousing high-speed chase. Read more

Brittany Spanos, Village Voice: As a film, Let's Be Cops glides in the same way its characters do. Though it charms, it's difficult to ignore how many times we've seen this story played out before. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Let's Be Cops has its moments, but it in no way distinguishes itself. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Johnson and Wayans are both gifted comic performers but are given way too little to do in a film that wends its way from set piece to set piece, not with antic glee but desultory and-then-this-happens randomness. Read more