A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. With that being said I'm going to bring you my top 10 favorite buddy cop movies of all-time. You can check out my other list here.These movies are ranked 11-20 so when you see number 5 it is actually number 15.So without further ado...
10. (20) Turner and Hooch
I'm a big dog lover and seeing Tom Hanks interact with a Dogue de Bordeaux is pretty fun. While investigating a murder case, neat freak detective Turner reluctantly finds himself responsible for taking care of the only witness -- Hooch, the victim's lumbering, slobbering mess of a dog. Turner and Hooch has a rating of 54% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. (19) Miami Vice
While it doesn't live up to the tv show, it's still a really fun and beautiful film. Ricardo Tubbs (played by Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (played by Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (played by Colin Ferrell)is charismatic and flirtatious until--while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group--he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (played by Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Miami Vice has a rating of 47% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. (18) The Rundown
This film is really great and it showed that The Rock could do both action and comedy and that he has a lot of potential as an actor. Beck (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a "retrieval specialist" in hock to a powerful and not particularly nice gentleman named Walker (played by William Lucking). Beck is anxious to retire from his dangerous work and open a small restaurant. Walker tells Beck he'll be free and clear with enough cash to fulfill his dream if he does one more job. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis (played by Seann William Scott). Travis is down there looking for a legendary idol, El Gato Diablo, which he could sell for millions if he found it. A pretty local, Mariana (played by Rosario Dawson), offers Travis the use of her boat in exchange for a cut of the take on the statue. But the powerful Hatcher (played by Christopher Walken) owns the area's huge mine, where locals work for slave wages, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until the statue is in his hands. Using his estimable fighting prowess (he doesn't like guns), Beck manages to get Travis out of town, but Travis doesn't want to go home, and he ends up getting them stranded in the jungle, where they're confronted with horny monkeys and angry guerrillas. To make matters worse, Hatcher and his thugs are hot on their trail, and Mariana turns out to have her own motives for getting involved. The Rundown has a rating of 71% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. (17) Hot Fuzz
While this isn't the best film in the cornetto trilogy, it's still a really funny movie. A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) always gets his man, but these days his impeccable record seems to be more indicative of his fellow officers' shortcomings than his own formidable skills as a keeper of the peace. Loathe to stand idly by as their once respectable track record is steadily soiled by the hyper-competent actions of one lone overachiever, Sergeant Angel's superiors at the Met soon determine to remedy their problem by relocating the decorated constable to the West Country village of Sanford -- where tranquil garden parties and neighborhood watch meetings stand in stark contrast to the violent crime and heated gunplay of the city. As Sergeant Angel does his best to adjust to the relative calm of his new environment, his oafish new partner Danny Butterman (played by Nick Frost) strives to gain the respect of his fellow constables while sustaining himself on fantasies of his favorite action films and police shows. Later, just as it begins to appear as if Sergeant Angel has been relegated to an uneventful existence in the relative calm of the countryside, a series of horrific "accidents" lead him to suspect that the tranquil hamlet of Sanford has fallen prey to a sinister plot which reeks of foul play. Hot Fuzz has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. (16) 48 Hrs
This films is great and the chemistry between for Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte is just fantastic. When a pair of reckless cop-killers break out of prison, grizzled detective Jack Cates (played by Nick Nolte) is left no alternative but to spring fast-talking hustler Reggie Hammond (played by Eddie Murphy) from the penitentiary in order to find the criminals. The catch: the pair only have 48 hours to complete their assignment before Hammond must return to prison. Naturally, the two despise each other and even engage in fisticuffs, but eventually the danger facing them proves a strong enough common bond for them to play on the same team, and even achieve a little mutual admiration. 48 Hrs. has a rating of 92% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. (15) Kindergarten Cop
I know Arnold Schwarzenegger is more of an action guy, but this is by far his greatest comedic performance. As the film begins, John Kimble (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (played by Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious drug dealer Cullen Crisp (played by Richard Tyson) and his scabrous mother Eleanor (played by Carroll Baker). John learns Cullen is searching for his ex-wife and his little boy, and Kimble plans to nail them when they find the former wife, who is believed to have $3 million of Cullen's drug profits. John and Phoebe follow the trail to Astoria, Oregon, where they believe Cullen's son is attending kindergarten. Although the child and his mother have changed names, John hopes they can pick up some clues. By coincidence, Phoebe used to be a schoolteacher and the school board permits her teach the kindergarten class, but Phoebe gets food poisoning and John is forced to teach the six-year-old whippersnappers himself. Kindergarten Cop has a rating of 51% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. (14) 21 Jump Street
This film surprised me a whole lot and it is one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. Schmidt (played by Jonah Hill) and Jenko (played by Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. 21 Jump Street has a rating of 85% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. (13) Bad Boys 2
I may give Michael Bay a lot of crap, but this movie is funny and somewhat entertaining. Narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey (played by Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (played by Martin Lawrence) have been assigned to a high-tech task force investigating the flow of designer ecstasy in Miami. Their inquiries inadvertently lead them to a major conspiracy involving a vicious kingpin, whose ambitions to take over the city's drug trade have ignited a bloody turf war. But Mike and Marcus' friendship and working relationship is threatened when Mike begins to develop feelings for Marcus' sister Syd (played by Gabrielle Union). Unless they can separate the personal from the professional, Mike and Marcus are in danger of blowing the case and endangering Syd's life in the process. Bad Boys 2 has a rating of 23% on rottentomatoes.com,
2. (12) Rush Hour 2
This is one instance where the sequel is better than the first film. Chief Inspector Lee (played by Jackie Chan) of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles detective James Carter (played by Chris Tucker). The men intend to take some vacation time but are quickly pulled into the case of two murdered U.S. customs agents, who were investigating an illegal counterfeiting scam involving Ricky Tan (played by John Lone), one of the most powerful Triad gangsters in Asia and an old enemy of Lee's. Lee and Carter are soon embroiled in a dangerous mystery that also involves a sexy secret-service agent (played by Roselyn Sanchez), a billionaire hotel owner (played by Alan King), a dangerous femme fatale (played by Zhang Ziyi) and a finale set in a lavish Las Vegas casino. Rush Hour 2 has a rating of 52% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. (11) Die Hard with a Vengeance
While not as quotable as it's predacessors, I personally love the cast and Jeremy Irons is just fantastic. McClane (played by Bruce Willis) has fallen on hard times; after moving to New York City and breaking up with his wife, he's developed a drinking problem and has been suspended from the NYPD. However, his past comes back to haunt him in the form of Simon (played by Jeremy Irons), a terrorist bomber who has been using McClane as his contact as he plants a series of bombs in public places and gives McClane inane "clues" to their whereabouts in the form of riddles and bizarre games. McClane soon discovers he's been involved in Simon's scheme as part of a personal grudge; while associated with an international terrorist group, Simon is also the brother of the man McClane threw off the side of a skyscraper several years back (in the original Die Hard). Now McClane, with the help of a Harlem shopkeeper named Zeus (played by Samuel L. Jackson), has to find out where Simon has planted the bombs, guess where he'll strike next, and try to find his base of operations before more bombs go off and thousands of people die. Die Hard with a Vengeance has a rating of 51% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite buddy cop films and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
10. (20) Turner and Hooch
I'm a big dog lover and seeing Tom Hanks interact with a Dogue de Bordeaux is pretty fun. While investigating a murder case, neat freak detective Turner reluctantly finds himself responsible for taking care of the only witness -- Hooch, the victim's lumbering, slobbering mess of a dog. Turner and Hooch has a rating of 54% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. (19) Miami Vice
While it doesn't live up to the tv show, it's still a really fun and beautiful film. Ricardo Tubbs (played by Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (played by Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (played by Colin Ferrell)is charismatic and flirtatious until--while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group--he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (played by Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Miami Vice has a rating of 47% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. (18) The Rundown
This film is really great and it showed that The Rock could do both action and comedy and that he has a lot of potential as an actor. Beck (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a "retrieval specialist" in hock to a powerful and not particularly nice gentleman named Walker (played by William Lucking). Beck is anxious to retire from his dangerous work and open a small restaurant. Walker tells Beck he'll be free and clear with enough cash to fulfill his dream if he does one more job. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis (played by Seann William Scott). Travis is down there looking for a legendary idol, El Gato Diablo, which he could sell for millions if he found it. A pretty local, Mariana (played by Rosario Dawson), offers Travis the use of her boat in exchange for a cut of the take on the statue. But the powerful Hatcher (played by Christopher Walken) owns the area's huge mine, where locals work for slave wages, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until the statue is in his hands. Using his estimable fighting prowess (he doesn't like guns), Beck manages to get Travis out of town, but Travis doesn't want to go home, and he ends up getting them stranded in the jungle, where they're confronted with horny monkeys and angry guerrillas. To make matters worse, Hatcher and his thugs are hot on their trail, and Mariana turns out to have her own motives for getting involved. The Rundown has a rating of 71% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. (17) Hot Fuzz
While this isn't the best film in the cornetto trilogy, it's still a really funny movie. A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) always gets his man, but these days his impeccable record seems to be more indicative of his fellow officers' shortcomings than his own formidable skills as a keeper of the peace. Loathe to stand idly by as their once respectable track record is steadily soiled by the hyper-competent actions of one lone overachiever, Sergeant Angel's superiors at the Met soon determine to remedy their problem by relocating the decorated constable to the West Country village of Sanford -- where tranquil garden parties and neighborhood watch meetings stand in stark contrast to the violent crime and heated gunplay of the city. As Sergeant Angel does his best to adjust to the relative calm of his new environment, his oafish new partner Danny Butterman (played by Nick Frost) strives to gain the respect of his fellow constables while sustaining himself on fantasies of his favorite action films and police shows. Later, just as it begins to appear as if Sergeant Angel has been relegated to an uneventful existence in the relative calm of the countryside, a series of horrific "accidents" lead him to suspect that the tranquil hamlet of Sanford has fallen prey to a sinister plot which reeks of foul play. Hot Fuzz has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. (16) 48 Hrs
This films is great and the chemistry between for Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte is just fantastic. When a pair of reckless cop-killers break out of prison, grizzled detective Jack Cates (played by Nick Nolte) is left no alternative but to spring fast-talking hustler Reggie Hammond (played by Eddie Murphy) from the penitentiary in order to find the criminals. The catch: the pair only have 48 hours to complete their assignment before Hammond must return to prison. Naturally, the two despise each other and even engage in fisticuffs, but eventually the danger facing them proves a strong enough common bond for them to play on the same team, and even achieve a little mutual admiration. 48 Hrs. has a rating of 92% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. (15) Kindergarten Cop
I know Arnold Schwarzenegger is more of an action guy, but this is by far his greatest comedic performance. As the film begins, John Kimble (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (played by Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious drug dealer Cullen Crisp (played by Richard Tyson) and his scabrous mother Eleanor (played by Carroll Baker). John learns Cullen is searching for his ex-wife and his little boy, and Kimble plans to nail them when they find the former wife, who is believed to have $3 million of Cullen's drug profits. John and Phoebe follow the trail to Astoria, Oregon, where they believe Cullen's son is attending kindergarten. Although the child and his mother have changed names, John hopes they can pick up some clues. By coincidence, Phoebe used to be a schoolteacher and the school board permits her teach the kindergarten class, but Phoebe gets food poisoning and John is forced to teach the six-year-old whippersnappers himself. Kindergarten Cop has a rating of 51% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. (14) 21 Jump Street
This film surprised me a whole lot and it is one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. Schmidt (played by Jonah Hill) and Jenko (played by Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. 21 Jump Street has a rating of 85% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. (13) Bad Boys 2
I may give Michael Bay a lot of crap, but this movie is funny and somewhat entertaining. Narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey (played by Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (played by Martin Lawrence) have been assigned to a high-tech task force investigating the flow of designer ecstasy in Miami. Their inquiries inadvertently lead them to a major conspiracy involving a vicious kingpin, whose ambitions to take over the city's drug trade have ignited a bloody turf war. But Mike and Marcus' friendship and working relationship is threatened when Mike begins to develop feelings for Marcus' sister Syd (played by Gabrielle Union). Unless they can separate the personal from the professional, Mike and Marcus are in danger of blowing the case and endangering Syd's life in the process. Bad Boys 2 has a rating of 23% on rottentomatoes.com,
2. (12) Rush Hour 2
This is one instance where the sequel is better than the first film. Chief Inspector Lee (played by Jackie Chan) of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles detective James Carter (played by Chris Tucker). The men intend to take some vacation time but are quickly pulled into the case of two murdered U.S. customs agents, who were investigating an illegal counterfeiting scam involving Ricky Tan (played by John Lone), one of the most powerful Triad gangsters in Asia and an old enemy of Lee's. Lee and Carter are soon embroiled in a dangerous mystery that also involves a sexy secret-service agent (played by Roselyn Sanchez), a billionaire hotel owner (played by Alan King), a dangerous femme fatale (played by Zhang Ziyi) and a finale set in a lavish Las Vegas casino. Rush Hour 2 has a rating of 52% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. (11) Die Hard with a Vengeance
While not as quotable as it's predacessors, I personally love the cast and Jeremy Irons is just fantastic. McClane (played by Bruce Willis) has fallen on hard times; after moving to New York City and breaking up with his wife, he's developed a drinking problem and has been suspended from the NYPD. However, his past comes back to haunt him in the form of Simon (played by Jeremy Irons), a terrorist bomber who has been using McClane as his contact as he plants a series of bombs in public places and gives McClane inane "clues" to their whereabouts in the form of riddles and bizarre games. McClane soon discovers he's been involved in Simon's scheme as part of a personal grudge; while associated with an international terrorist group, Simon is also the brother of the man McClane threw off the side of a skyscraper several years back (in the original Die Hard). Now McClane, with the help of a Harlem shopkeeper named Zeus (played by Samuel L. Jackson), has to find out where Simon has planted the bombs, guess where he'll strike next, and try to find his base of operations before more bombs go off and thousands of people die. Die Hard with a Vengeance has a rating of 51% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite buddy cop films and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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