Space Cop (2016)

People are voting emotionally.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Blistering performances.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This is an intentionally bad movie from the guys who frequently says, on their review shows, that the "so bad it's good" thing only works on movies that are unintentionally bad. Nothing more needs to be said about this movie. It's not funny and it's not entertaining.They should stick to talking about movies, that's where they're entertaining.For all their "insights" into the flaws of big budget movies, it seems they simply aren't competent movie makers themselves after all, and because of it they hide behind the "intentionally bad" shield so that they can say: "It's stylistically designed to be that bad, we know exactly what we're doing! Aren't we wacky and funny and genius by doing something so bad it's great?". Of course, eagerly cheered on by their fan army. Although it's not cheering, instead they're called "hacks" and "frauds", which here doesn't mean what it actually means but instead is RLM code for "I'm in on the joke! I'm part of the club! I'm a comedic genius just like Mike!"

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.

Where does one begin. There is a scene about 30 minutes in where Space Cop gets spammed with popups in his helmets visor. He continues to run around blindly for what seemed like 14 minutes. He bashed into things and there was awful music playing the ENTIRE time. The awful music is overused in every scene. The guy from the past CANNOT act, he reminded me of a terrible high school stage actor who thought he was imitating Corey Feldman when I was a kid. The best part of the entire movie is when Space Cop struggles with the plant on the Lunar Colony before it blows up. They have glimmers of hope early on but this should have been a 10 minute short, they simply can't hold on for 90 minutes. What is more disturbing about this movie is that I believe its existence nullifies their satirical take on movies from this time forward. Why do I want to listen to people bitch about movies as though they know what they're talking about when in truth they are talentless hacks. 1 star Worst purposefully bad movie I've ever seen.

It's hard to qualify a movie like Space Cop. I don't think it can be fully appreciated if you don't know the Red Letter Media guys, and if you are not familiar with their shows "Best of the Worst" and "Half in the Bag". The movie is self-referential from start to finish, with lots of nods specially to "Best of the Worst" episodes from the opening credits to the ***SPOILER*** Len Kabasinski cameo and stunt doubling. The "Samurai Cop" references also had me in stitches!All in all, I wouldn't say the story kept me riveted, nor the gags had me rolling on the floor, but it was a very funny movie for me, as a fan of Rich Evans and Mike Stoklasa's overacting. It's like having your (talented) friends making a movie. You can see all the work and efforts that went into it (specially if you listen to the commentary track), you're already won to their brand of humor and the end result is very endearing.If you are not fans of Mike, Rich, Jay, Jack and all the gang, better skip it. You won't get the joke.