Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been "Sally Jessed" and "Geraldoed" adnauseam only needed a nudge from a football player-turned-B-movie-actor-turned-B-murderer to go completely nuts. Every pathetic character in the long and sundry march toward the first verdict was vaulted into international fame. The ridiculous "surfer dude," the racist cop, the narcissistic judge, the scuzzy defense lawyers and the mutually enamored prosecutors--it was almost too much...
...beside themselves to reimprison or retry him. In the meantime, he lives in near seclusion, although he recently met with TIME for two days of interviews that offer his first detailed account of his case since his release. Tan, relaxed and defiant, he says he is not going to cop a plea, say, for time served: "I didn't come this far to cut a deal. My case will be fought on the merits, and I am completely innocent...
...Kevin cop out? Or did he happen by historical circumstance to get away from the rat race for his own benefit? Can we even ask these questions without being cliched...
...evidence of Metro, maybe The Nutty Professor was less a trend than a fluke. This cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop, but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with...
Murphy is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie...