Bulletproof (1996)
4/10
Starring
Adam Sandler
Damon Wayans
James Caan
Directed by Ernest Dickerson
What Bulletproof
lacks in humor, it makes up for with a lot of flimsy deaths. The number of
henchmen and innocent people who die in this movie is just ridiculous. The
movie’s name is Bulletproof, and well, the two leads seem to be. While people
are dying everywhere, these two always seem to survive no matter what. And when
both get shot, death is nowhere to be found. One took a straight shot to the
head and survived, while the other got a graze.
The movie’s plot
had as many holes as it could. The way a small-time crook could have access to
a big-time boss like Colton goes to show the movie’s writer didn’t do their
research well. I expected at least a middleman between these two. Secondly, if
you suspect they’re after you, wouldn’t you consider that your phone could be
bugged? Do note, his phone wasn’t bugged, but I wouldn’t have spoken freely to
my girlfriend if I were on the run.
The plot is
about an undercover cop, Jack/Keats (Damon Wayans), who becomes friends with
Moses (Adam Sandler), a small-time crook with connections to a big-time drug
dealer, Colton. Keats wonders how Moses got enough money to throw around, even
though they work together and share the money 50/50. After a while, Moses
brings Keats into his secret. He introduces Keats to Colton, and Keats uses
this opportunity to bust their next operation, which leads to Moses shooting
Keats, and Colton not getting caught.
Colton is now
after Moses, who escapes from him and is later arrested for a separate charge
months later. Moses decides to work with the police to bring down Colton for a
lesser sentence, but he will only work with Keats, whose real name is Jack.
Jack is not over Moses shooting him, and Moses wants Jack to let it go, since
he’s not over Jack betraying him. Now, both must find their way to the D.A.
before Colton and his goons catch up to them.
In the end, the
movie was a dud both at the box office and critically. I watched it again
because I wanted to recall how it was, but I now know I was better off not
remembering how bad this movie was. Adam Sandler worked on a lot of movies in
the ’90s, becoming a household name for comedy, but this buddy cop comedy did
not live up to expectations, even with these two comedians.
The idea that
anyone decided to do a second part of this movie, even though it was a
straight-to-video release, is beyond me. What’s worse is that they got new
people to play the leads.
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