The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
With jokes that fall flat so often, the film’s cardiograph flatlines before the first five minutes are over.
France, Russia, United States · 2013
1h 23m
Director Quentin Dupieux
Starring Mark Burnham, Steve Little, Eric Judor, Marilyn Manson
Genre Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
With jokes that fall flat so often, the film’s cardiograph flatlines before the first five minutes are over.
Wrong Cops is a tedious exercise in self-consciously hip lowbrow comedy.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Wrong Cops does what underground movies used to do: It gives the viewer the sense that what they’re watching is thoroughly wrong in terms of both behavior and style. What’s missing is the transgressive kick, the sense that a real boundary has been crossed.
No doubt a labor of love, the result is just plain laborious for the audience.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
It’s really just a tortuous series of blackout sketches hung together with the flimsiest of threads.
Dupieux might have done better to construct an entire movie around his best idea.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
This meandering lark about a corrupt, spiteful and hopelessly distracted police force in a decriminalized, sun-scorched city never quite finds the funny bone.
A monstrously unfunny “Police Academy”/“Reno 911” knockoff directed with just enough winking self-awareness to seem both insipid and pretentious.
In the California desert, a car tire comes to life and embarks on a homicidal rampage.
The past always catches up.
An aspiring director is given 48 hours by a producer to record an Oscar-worthy groan of pain.
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take on Italy.
They do not come in peace.