Observe and Report

Pros: Rogen, Liotta, Weston, some moments of humor
Cons: Some moments are more heavy-handed than darkly comic

Ronnie Bradford dreams of having a career in law enforcement. He wears a badge, but his domain is the Forest Ridge Mall, where he serves as the head of security. In "Observe And Report," Ronnie (Seth Rogen) sees a career-changing opportunity. Incidents ...

Pros: Very, very funny, solid work from the talented cast
Cons: Gets a bit carried away with itself, lots of violence/nudity, if that's not your thing

Three years ago, Borat featured an extended sequence of nude men wrestling all over a hotel, played for extreme laughs with their zany penises.  The following year, the sadly little seen comic biopic Walk Hard co-starred a surprise ...

Pros: hilarious, poignant, more interesting for its darkness, in-your-face satire
Cons: raunchy, generally predictable, not for grandma or the teens

Usually, when two movies are made from the same topic, the second film gets the shaft.  That's what happened when two studios went after the gunfight at OK corral.  The first film, Tombstone, made $56 million, a nice take for ...

Pros: It doesn't sugar coat a mall cop's job.
Cons: Profanity, debauchery, nudity.

Forest Ridge Mall is assaulted by a flasher. A TV reporter interviews head of mall security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) who quickly establishes himself as lead investigator shoving aside police Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta)—who would rather not ...

Pros: Ray Liotta's acting; that's about it
Cons: Boring, predictable, not funny

I had a free movie ticket which was expiring one day so I decided to use it.  The only thing playing at the time I could go was "Observe and Report."  I had seen the "other" mall cop movie and that one was pretty good.  Unfortunately, ...

Pros: A couple funny scenes
Cons: trying to hard

As Seth Rogans first non-supporting role in a movie, I thought that this would be hilarious and was very eager to see it.  Luckily, I didn't waste the money by seeing it in the theatre, and waited till I could rent it on DVD. The plot of the movie ...