Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
TrueJoshNight
Truly Dreadful Film
Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
dinklesteinburgantonio
I'm a big fan of RLM and have been for a while, I got this for my birthday and laughed the whole way. As a film, it's definitely not that good, but as a comedy by these guys, it's better than I'd expected. I gave it such a high rating purely because I had lots of fun watching it and I'm beyond happy that I got it. 10s come from filmmaking masterpieces in my reviewing, this perfect score is because I expected them to make fun schlock and got super schlock, it got a 10.
Clement Tyler Obropta
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.
gaba gool
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.
Christian Fauteux
Where does one begin. There is a scene about 30 minutes in where Space Cop gets spammed with popups in his helmets visor. He continues to run around blindly for what seemed like 14 minutes. He bashed into things and there was awful music playing the ENTIRE time. The awful music is overused in every scene. The guy from the past CANNOT act, he reminded me of a terrible high school stage actor who thought he was imitating Corey Feldman when I was a kid. The best part of the entire movie is when Space Cop struggles with the plant on the Lunar Colony before it blows up. They have glimmers of hope early on but this should have been a 10 minute short, they simply can't hold on for 90 minutes. What is more disturbing about this movie is that I believe its existence nullifies their satirical take on movies from this time forward. Why do I want to listen to people bitch about movies as though they know what they're talking about when in truth they are talentless hacks. 1 star Worst purposefully bad movie I've ever seen.