Two mismatched partners, one case, and chemistry that carries the whole picture. Reviews of the buddy cop films that earned the formula and the ones that just borrowed it.
ActionA suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
ActionBad Boys is the buddy cop franchise that defined Miami action cinema for three decades. Michael Bay directed the first two films.
ActionRush Hour is the buddy cop trilogy that made Jackie Chan a Hollywood leading man and Chris Tucker an A-list comedy actor for a brief window of his career. Brett Ratner directed all three films.
ActionMidnight Run is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantially underrated buddy action comedies in commercial cinema histo. Martin Brest had directed Going in Style in 1979 and Beverly Hills Cop in…
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