Cop and a Half

Burt’s STOP! OR MY KID WILL SHOOT… it’s not necessarily a bad premise for a movie, and I appreciated what must have been a Herculean effort not to involve Golden directly in the violence, but because there’s no development of the premise, or indeed any sense of a burgeoning camaraderie between Reynolds and Golden, the film stalls out halfway through with nowhere to go, except following Reynolds’ grim trudging through the cliches of a tame crime plot, while an even more ineffectual Taylor tries to call him out – the film ends up belonging to Golden, who displays a good instinctive feel for throwing off one-liners, but he (and his character) really don’t have the heft to carry even a shallow film like this one.