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I did not like Space Cop

posted 9 years ago by trash-46645
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So I just finished watching the long awaited Space Cop and I must say I'm quite disappointed. The movie is quite bad. But not entertainingly bad. The story felt like they made it up as they went along, the acting was awful (especially our leads unfortunately), it's like they weren't even trying to make a good movie anymore. Apart from the CGI and the miniatures - those were nice but the rest of it was just terrible. I would forgive bad sets, technical details or things of that nature as a result of a micro-budget production but not the bad writing. I wasn't expecting academy award material but I was expecting at least something clever. The thing is that the technical side is actually mostly ok. There are some technical issues with the soundmix and adr that were a bit distracting but that's not the problem. The problem is that they tried to make a comedy again for some reason but the humor fell completely flat, the dialog was painful, both Rich and Mike's performances were mostly just obnoxious. The movie reminded me mostly of their 48 hour project, it was that level of quality. Overall the movie feels like a bad idea that got somehow turned into a movie, without thinking things through, that was then pushed out of the door just to get it over with. Even the numerous references to other RLM stuff did not make up for the awful script.

I have to agree with others that SC is definitely a leap back from FF. What happened ? Did you guys forget to take your brain medicine ?

[–] kcott44 8 years ago

I agree with pretty much all that you said. I'm a big fan of RLM and was looking forward to this as well. There are positives, I thought Dick the Birthday Boy was pretty decent, every scene that I got a laugh or a chuckle out of was a scene involving him even though by the end, his shtick was overplayed. Mike, on the other hand, was insanely awful. His character was so dumb and unfunny and surprisingly he was brutally annoying. The effects especially considering the micro budget were quite good but you know what doesn't take a budget? A good script.

Funny enough, the same day I watched Space Cop, I watched The Do-Over with Adam Sandler which was pretty bad but that sadly, had a slightly better script than Space Cop.

[–] avortac4 (3752) 3 years ago

I agree with you, I would definitely accept the quality of the effects, props, sets, costumes, anything and everything, if the story and writing were good. That's basically how Space Cop is - it feels like a wasted opportunity, wasted potential, wasted talent, wasted everything.

With just a few tweaks, it could have been an amazing classic, but it brings itself down to garbage level because it's boring, the story is bad, writing is bad, jokes fall flat, and all that potential is just wasted.

I mean, Mike's character from the past interacting in the 'modern time' (I don't even remember if it was the 1980s or not) with a cop from the future - this theme has SO much potential! All the things that COULD have been done, and we're only shown about three per cent of that. Some small bits were good, like the video camera stuff and some other Mike's characters stuff, but for the most part, this movie is so bad you can't even cringe at it.