3 of the Best Cop Buddy Movies – When Opposites Attract

Cop Buddy Movies are one of my favourite genres. Long may they continue

When it comes to Cop Buddy Movies, you get the best of both worlds. Almost like a sliding doors scenario, you get to see both sides of a coin and simultanously enjoy your good and bad side on the big screen. I wrote about Buddy Cop Movies a while ago here. With the release of Bad boys Ride or Die (review) I thought I’d look at which of them were the most enduring and have stood the test of time.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to the series they begun in 1995 with Director Bay. While he has remained involved in the franchise as a producer, directing duties for the latest movies in the series (Bad Boys for Life & bad Boys Ride or Die) have been handed over the directing brothers Adil & Bilall, who combined some of their own creative camera work with Bay’s love for making everything on screen explode.

Lethal Weapon began as a much darker series in 1987, with Mel Gibson played a mentally unbalanced, chronically depressed and suicidal officer Riggs, who made the life of his opartner Murtagh (Donald Glover) complete hell. Over the following three sequels it morphed into more of a feel good comedy with friendship and family being at its heart

Rush Hour set itself apart by focusing on cultural differences between comedian Chris Tuckers Agent Carter and jackie Chan’s Agent Lee. There are two ways to deal with racial and cultural differences in society. You can ignore them and pretend they dont exist or you can acknowledge them, make jokes about what you dont understand and eventually learn about them. Rush Hour follows the latter, proving the best way to understand a culture that seems strange to you is to engage with it, respectfully of course!