Space Cop
Space Cop
| 12 January 2016 (USA)
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Space Cop is the story of a cop from the future of space who travels back in time to the present and is teamed up with a cop from the past who is unfrozen in the present. Together, they must defeat evil aliens with a sinister plan.

Reviews
Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Michael Ledo The film starts out in the future with Space Cop (Rich Evans) spoofing action film cops as he accidently blows up the moon mines with miners in them. Space Cop is inept, clumsy, careless, stupid, lazy, and arrogant. He gets "promoted" to Traffic Space Cop where he finds himself chasing a speeder through a wormhole back in time. He remains "Space Cop" with his gadgets in modern day Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He gets teamed up with Cooper (Mike Stoklasa) a cop from the past who got accidently released from cryro-sleep. They are teamed up as the odd couple cops with bad swagger. The film was designed to be campy and looks like a community TV project, it was done that well. There is only so much stupid Rich Evans can dish out before it gets old. The plot had potential but it feels more like a wasted opportunity as so many of the spoofs were of a generic nature and not directed at various films. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
Ole Oberländer I love RLM and was really looking forward to this. This movie was hard to watch, but since I payed $25 for it, I had to watch it. Watching it felt like sitting in a doctor's waiting room for 3 hours. The commentary track was more entertaining than the movie itself. It surprised me a lot that RLM managed to make so many mistakes even though they should've learned from the mistakes of other film makers since they criticize them in Half in a Bag and Best of the Worst like real professionals.The 2 main characters in this film were horrible. They weren't even real characters. I managed to accept Rich Evans' over-the-top Space Cop performance as it seemed so ridiculous that it kind of got funny again. Mike Stoklasa's detective from the past though was just painful to watch as it seemed like a cynical attempt of playing a comic relief character without any mentionable character traits. I guess Mike was aware of the shittiness of his character and felt no need to hide this. I feel bad for the other actors, because they could've turned this movie into something great would they've played the lead roles as well. Or maybe everybody else was acting too well and made especially the RLM gang look bad? I think Jay did a good job even though he seems way to nice to be a villain-ish character and fell short when acting with the real actors.The movie as a whole was entertaining in certain moments, but boring and shameful to watch in many of the others. They often tried to be funny no matter what and sacrificed the credibility of the world they've created. As many lines were improvised there were loads of long tripod shots which made it obvious that they were on a set. More cuts and close ups instead of tripod boredom would've made this much better and less boring to watch (and much more work to edit). A shame that they cut out the ghost of Jack, which was part of the deleted scenes.Nonetheless what they've managed to accomplish is highly impressive to me. The sets, costumes and special effects are dope! I hope on their next film they'll prioritize character building and action scenes a little more so it's not too focused on acting. Also they should make use of green screen technology more often to avoid monotone and lifeless sets.
KineticSeoul 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
hlocnw 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.