My Top 10 Favorite Buddy Cop Movies of All-Time

        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. So without further ado...

10. Wild, Wild, West

        Look this film is pretty bad I'm the first one to admit it, but it has some great humor and it is one of my guilty pleasures. Special government agent James West (played by Will Smith), long on charm and wit, and special government agent Artemus Gordon (played by Kevin Kline), a master of disguises and a brilliant inventor of gadgets large and small, are each sent to track down the diabolical genius Dr. Arliss Loveless (played by Kenneth Branagh). Loveless is plotting to assassinate the President of the United States Ulysses Grant (also played by Kevin Kline) with the aid of his monstrously huge walking weapon-transport vehicle called The Tarantula. West and Gordon begin as competitors but soon pool their talents to become a wily team of operatives who trust each other... most of the time. Wild, Wild, West has a rating of 17% on rottentomatoes.com.

9. Training Day

        This is an amazing film with some amazing performances. Jake Hoyt (played by Ethan Hawke), a fresh-faced Los Angeles Police Department rookie anxious to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris (played by Denzel Washington). Harris has agreed to give Hoyt a shot at joining his team with a one-day ride-along during which Hoyt must prove his mettle. As the day wears on, however, it becomes increasingly clear to the greenhorn that his experienced mentor has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own morally compromised code of ethics and street justice. As he struggles with his conscience, an increasingly alarmed Hoyt begins to suspect that he's not really being given an audition at all; he's being set up as the fall guy in an elaborate scheme. Training Day was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor and winning the award for Best Actor and it has a rating of 72% on rottentomatoes.com.

8. The Other Guys

        This film has the most unlikely paring you have ever seen on film and it works to perfection. New York City detective Allen Gamble (played by Will Ferrell) is more comfortable pushing pencils than busting bad guys. A meticulous forensic accountant, his numbers are never off. Detective Terry Hoitz (played by Mark Wahlberg) is Gamble's reluctant partner. Try as Detective Hoitz might to get back on the streets, an embarrassing encounter with Derek Jeter has left a sizable black mark on his permanent record. Detectives Danson (played by Dwayne Johnson) and Highsmith (played by Samuel L. Jackson) are the complete opposites of Gamble and Hoitz: unwaveringly confident, they always get their man, and they do it with style to spare. When the time comes for Gamble and Hoitz to prove their mettle and save the day, their incompetence becomes the stuff of legend. The Other Guys has a rating of 79% on rottentomatoes.com.

7. Men in Black

        This film is hilarious and it actually got me into some very minor trouble when I was about 3 years old. James Darrel Edwards (Will Smith), a New York City cop with an athletic physique and a flippant, anti-authoritarian attitude toward law enforcement. After chasing down a mysterious perpetrator one night who turns out to be an alien, James is recruited by "K" (played by Tommy Lee Jones), a veteran of a clandestine government agency secretly policing the comings and goings of aliens on planet Earth. Nicknamed the "men in black" for their nondescript uniform of black suit, shoes, tie, and sunglasses, the agents are assigned to recover a bauble that's been stolen by an intergalactic terrorist (played by Vincent D'Onofrio). It seems the item is none other than the galaxy itself, and its theft has plunged humanity into the center of what's shaping up to become an interstellar war, unless K and his new wisecracking partner, now renamed "J," can stop the bad guy. On their side but somewhat in the dark is a pretty, unflappable city medical examiner (played by Linda Fiorentino) who has been zapped one too many times by K's ingenious memory-sapping device. Men in Black was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Makeup while winning the award for Best Makeup and it has a rating of 92% on rottentomatoes.com.

6. Osmosis Jones

        This film is really funny and it honeslty makes me think there is a City of Jonah inside of me. Frank (played by Bill Murray), a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating an egg contaminated with simian saliva. Unknown to Frank, the inside of his body is actually a city (the City of Frank) teeming with cellular life, where the mysterious illness he's fighting is an invading enemy that must be defeated at all costs. It's up to Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock), a white blood cell cop, and Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce), a rookie over-the-counter medication, to hunt down and stop a lethal virus (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) who's got an inferiority complex. Along the way, the partners visit Frank's runny nostrils (Booger Dam) and a bar called, appropriately enough, the Zit. Osmosis Jones has a rating of 55% on rottentomatoes.com.

5. Seven

        This film is intense and it keeps me on the edge of my seat every time I watch it. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (played by Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Every minute of his 32 years on the job is evident in Somerset's worn, exhausted face, and his soul aches with the pain that can only come from having seen and felt far too much. But Somerset's retirement must wait for one last case, for which he is teamed with young hotshot David Mills (played by Brad Pitt), the fiery detective set to replace him at the end of the week. Mills has talked his reluctant wife, Tracy (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), into moving to the big city so that he can tackle important cases, but his first and Somerset's last are more than either man has bargained for. A diabolical serial killer is staging grisly murders, choosing victims representing the seven deadly sins. First, an obese man is forced to eat until his stomach ruptures to represent gluttony, then a wealthy defense lawyer is made to cut off a pound of his own flesh as penance for greed. Somerset initially refuses to take the case, realizing that there will be five more murders, ghastly sermons about lust, sloth, pride, wrath, and envy presented by a madman to a sinful world. Somerset is correct, and something within him cannot let the case go, forcing the weary detective to team with Mills and see the case to its almost unspeakably horrible conclusion. Seven was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and it has a rating of 79% on rottentomatoes.com.

4. Spies Like Us 

        This film is absolutely hilarious and the chemaistry between Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd is amazing. Two loser misfits (played by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd) who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency are convinced (despite much evidence to the contrary) that they're prime secret agent material, both men keep taking service exams in an effort to win promotion. Caught cheating on their latest round of tests, Austin and Emmett expect to be fired but are instead made full field agents and ushered into intense training. Little do they know that it's all a ruse and that they're about to be dumped in Pakistan to throw Russian spies off the scent of two real agents with an important clandestine assignment. Spies Like Us has a rating of 35% on rottentomatoes.com.

3. Bad Boys

        Look I'll the first one to tell you Michael Bay is a disgrace to filmmaking, but this is one of his best films and it is full of humor and action. Mike Lowrey (played by Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (played by Martin Lawrence) are two Miami cops who watch as 100 million dollars in heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen out of the basement of police headquarters. This puts them hot on the trail of French drug lord Fouchet (played by Tchéky Karyo), who leaves a trail of bodies in his wake and only one witness, Julie Mott (played by Téa Leoni), who quickly teams up with our heroes. Comic hijinks ensue when plot complications force Mike to impersonate the married Marcus, to the point of moving in with his wife and children, while Marcus takes over Mike's bachelor pad and lifestyle. Bad Boys has a rating of 43% on rottentomatoes.com.

2. Lethal Weapon 

        This movie is absolutely hilarious and it started the buddy cop genre. L.A. cop Martin Riggs (played by Mel Gibson), whose wife has recently died, is a loose cannon with a seeming death wish. This makes him indispensable in collaring dangerous criminals, but a liability to any potential partners. Roger Murtaugh (played by Danny Glover), a conservative family man who wants to stay alive for his upcoming 50th birthday, is partnered with Riggs. As Riggs gets to know Murtaugh and his family, he begins to mellow, though his insistence on using guerilla tactics to catch criminals is still (put mildly) above and beyond the call of duty. The main villain is The General (played by Mitchell Ryan), a drug dealer responsible for the death of the daughter of one of Murtaugh's oldest friends. The General is also in charge of a deadly, militia-like gang of smugglers. Lethal Weapon has a rating of 84% on rottentomatoes.com.

1. Point Break

        I absolutely love this film and and I think it is vastly underrated. FBI agent Johnny Utah (played by Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and call themselves "Ex-Presidents," have executed a series of successful robberies which embarrassingly have the FBI stumped. Utah, and his partner Pappas (played by Gary Busey) suspect that the robbers are surfers and hatch a plan for catching them. Point Break has a rating of 68% 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