justdc4 Review of Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers (2017)

Not M. Jai W. as expected, but pleasantly surprised.

[9/10 · 31 January 2023]

This was a cool well done movie with quite an ending twist. Worth a 2nd watch. Direction, acting, plot were quite good. Those who rated low wanted the fake kicks to the head from White, and missed the entire point of the plot. Both White & Jackson's characters were acting to convince cops and the public that it was a real bank robbery and that the two of them hated each other. I was convinced. Actually stealing only the dirty money, letting the police recoup all the bank money, putting the corrupt cops in jail, occupying the police psychologist, and having the hostage crooked cop commit suicide was superbly done. By not showing the viewer the plans, the director and writer had me believing that the escape in the armored truck was real and the SWAT van was fake. And then one complainer, giving a low rating, criticized the fake actions of the two brothers pointing guns at each other in the nearly final scene within their childhood home. He analyzed as though it were real, which is excellent acting by White and Jackson because the cops were listening. Those negative critiques appear to be from those with a quite shallow depth of understanding. I found the film to be the opposite of boring with the totally surprising twists satisfactorily closing out a fine, entertaining film, without White performing any martial arts and putting in a fine performance. Well worth the watch.