It has been awhile since I have seen a movie that I like as much as this one. It is a dark comedy, I believe they call it, when the comedy is at the expense of others, I guess. The movie is called War On Everyone and it came out in 2016. I believe it is one of those cult movies that will find its audience and be beloved in time. It is set weirdly in present day New Mexico, but the two cop leads of the movie drive around in cars from the 70's. There is some sort of homage to those cop movies from back in the day, but instead of being good and standing with justice, the two cops start the movie running down a mime, making a dry joke to the effect of "I wonder if a mime makes a noise when you hit it with a car?" They don't explain why but they take a thermos size wad of cocaine from the mime, which they are then enjoying in a scene and using to force a citizen to give them information.
There are many weird scenes, the two guys Michael Pena and Alexander Skaarsgard are the two cops and although very different, they are loyal to each other. Pena is a Hispanic whose backstory indicates they have been on suspension for going after a racist cop. Skaarsgard plays a very alcoholic punch happy kind of guy. Pena is the smarter one, the other the muscle.
They get some information that some local bad guys are planning to rob a million bucks from somewhere, so the movie is based around trying to stop it and then trying to figure out where the money goes. There is a funny-ish scene where after all the bad guys who were supposed to steal the money are surrounded by SWAT, they get killed. The guys in SWAT are standing over there like oops, shrugging their shoulders like our bad. The police Chief played by Paul Reiser sighs and says at least they weren't all black. Like I said it is a dark comedy, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Hispanic cop has a couple kids which are funny for some reason, he kind of talks to them like I talk to my boys, so I was LOL'ing pretty good over that. The other cop kind of plays hero to a stripper taking her in "for her protection", but she is pretty hot and it doesn't take long for him to be playing hide the salami with her. I don't think the movie did well enough for a part 2, but dammit, these two cops deserve to be known, if anything, for their quips. They kind of reminded me of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, carrying on their deep conversations while making the world a little better, for them.
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