Space Cop (2016)

Excellent, smart action film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

For what it is, it's a alright movie. It's not one of those bad movies that is so stupid that is actually really good. But I appreciate what it tried to do with the resources they had. The main reason a movie such as this got the recognition that it did was because it was made by RedLetterMedia. And if you are a fan of RedLetterMedia, you just might have more appreciation for a movie such as this. Because it's created by people that are huge fans of movies and it took like 3 years to make this movie. I could tell some parts they were trying really hard to make it funny by making homage to some B movies that are unintentionally funny. With it's low production value actually adding to the humor. What this is, is a low budget buddy cop comedy that takes on a really bizarre route with a cop from the past teaming up with a cop from the future. Which does lead to some amusing moment, not super funny or anything like that but it was amusing. Even if some of the jokes dragged on and on, overall it still was a amusing movie to sit through.6.5/10

I enjoyed this movie because of the lessons it teaches about telling a story on a tiny budget.Mike, Rich, and Jay (along with the other members of the RLM team) focus most of their output talking about movies, about what makes them work and what makes the fall short.Space Cop is very self-aware, and I don't think it can be viewed by itself as a standalone movie. In many ways, it is a meta-movie, designed to point out the elements that comprise storytelling on the screen.It's not hilarious or beautiful or fascinating; it's something else, a secondary communication from the creators that brings together many of the ideas from Half In the Bag, Best of the Worst, and The Plinkett Reviews.I enjoyed this movie, but I did lot of homework with RLM over the years to get the points they are making. I accept it for what it is.

There's a special kind of joy that comes when the opening credits of "Space Cop" are rolling and you realize that you're not watching just any low-budget sci-fi movie, you're watching a labor of love from a group of friends who really wanted to make this movie.Even when the script falters, or when the acting falls flat, it's this heart that powers the film and keeps you invested.You can see the care and effort in the miniature Moon sets, in the production design for the alien spaceship, and in the props used by Space Cop and the rest of the Milwaukee precinct. Certain elements of the production are intentionally cheap, an elbow jab at the low-budget movies the gang discovers on "Best of the Worst."The filmmakers were obviously inspired by these cheesy, goofy, often over-the-top buddy cop actioners they saw on their show, because from obvious stunt doubles to overacting police chiefs, this movie goes right down the list, checking off every box.As Space Cop, Rich Evans is devotedly stoic and straight-faced, adopting a gruff, no- nonsense voice to mask his character's gross incompetence. But one yearns for the lovable presence Evans has in "Best of the Worst," or on "Half in the Bag." Mike Stoklasa, on the other hand, also hams it up as a detective from the past. There's a childish fun to their scenes together, and to their scenes with Jay Bauman's character Griggs. But too often does the pacing overwhelm the film, and we're left marooned for minutes on end with no jokes to latch onto.How much you enjoy the film will ultimately rely on how much you share Mike, Jay and Rich's absurd, awkward sense of humor. If a nearly minute-long scene of Space Cop punching in the code for his refrigerator only for a single bottle of beer makes you smile, or if you're delighted by three minutes of Space Cop and Patton Oswalt's character awkwardly watching each other on a video call, Oswalt scrambling to figure out how to log out of the call, then this movie is made for you.Stoklasa's character gets some good mileage out of his fish-out-of-water character, and he's dumbstruck to discover that not only can you not smoke in the police station, but you can't "have sex with a woman against her will," either.But on top of it all is Evans, whose Christian Bale–type gruffness anchors much of the film, and whose "Don't Think, Act" attitude provides many hilariously violent scenes. A certain sequence involving a train and a seven-year-old on a bicycle made me laugh so loud, I probably scared my neighbors, only for the scene to be matched a half an hour later by an out-of-nowhere shootout in an alien spaceship that leaves several innocents dead.Only those who truly love the team of RedLetterMedia should check out "Space Cop." It's not as consistently funny or as well-paced as "Black Dynamite" or other farcical '80s-nostalgia films, but the care and love put into the production is undeniable. And, hey, it has to be good — it took 12 years to make, after all.

This movie is good, but you have to already be into comedy to get it. This is like comedians humor, not someone who thinks the jokes in transformers are good's comedy. If you're not the right kind of person a lot of this will go over your head. The guy who was cryogenically frozen who they woke up definitely had some jokes that bothered me. He played up his schtick a bit too much. I don't know if thats just the writing or if he came up with those jokes, but a lot of them fell flat on their face. Some of them were pretty good, but definitely not all of them. Also i don't remember how it ended, but i remember being a bit disappointed. Starts of really good though. Lots of "future" jokes. They're killer, you just cant be looking for some comedy that involves someone falling in a lava pit or anything very simple. The jokes require more thought than your typical broad comedic bits, like things that play on trivializing violence, or belittling women. Which i can often appreciate, but are "low blows"- they're funny, but far from ingenious. Once again, if you're going to watch this movie, keep your expectations low for the unfrozen guy. If you're reading this, unfrozen guy, i apologize, if its any consolation you definitely did not single handedly ruin this movie. There's other problems with it too, and the biggest one is probably that the comedy isn't broad enough for the masses, and personally i appreciate that. Make stuff that you think is funny, not things that you think everyone will understand.