Showtime Movie Review 2002

Murphy hams and De Niro grimaces as they both plod through this lame buddy cop comedy. The odd couple are the fiery LAPD detective Preston (De Niro), who's forced to star in a reality-based TV cop show with beat cop/frustrated actor Sellars (Murphy) after Preston impulsively shoots out a network camera and must avoid a law suit. Russo is the show's producer and has little to do here. The rest of the action involves tracking down some robbers who are also the owners of a really, really big gun. Shatner briefly injects some life into the lackluster action as he coaches the boys on how to play to the camera. Although the two leads are unarguably cast correctly and easy to watch doing what they do best, the premise lets them, and the audience, down.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Look Ma! I'm on TV!, Police Detectives, L.A., Mass Media

Screenplay

Alfred Gough, Keith Sharon, Miles Millard

Cast

Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Frankie Faison, Dante "Mos Def" Beze, William Shatner, Pedro Damian, Nestor Serrano, Drena De Niro, Kadeem Hardison, TJ Cross, Judah Friedlander

Cinematography

Thomas Kloss

Director

Tom Dey

Music

Alan Silvestri

Other

J. Paul Huntsman, Christopher Aud, Michael McQuarn, Joel Sill, Billy Weber, Geoff Hubbard, Christopher Lawrence, Jeff Mann

Producer

Jorge Saralegui, Jane Rosenthal, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Tribeca Productions, Warner Bros.