The Best Underrated Buddy Cop movie

Actually this came out a year before Lethal Weapon did. Very underated movie.

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http://thedissolve.com/features/compulsory-viewing/200-paul-scheer-on- the-forgotten-buddy-cop-movie-every/

Scheer: [Laughs.] But to your point, yeah, it does get washed away. It’s one of those movies that I don’t ever hear people reference. When people talk about the big buddy-cop movies from the ’80s, it’s Beverly Hills Cop and Lethal Weapon. Those are the ones you always hear referenced a lot. It’s just this weird thing where, back in the ’80s, you could do a movie that was primarily an action movie but had humor in it, and now the action movies are action movies, and the comedy movies are comedy movies. There’s not that thin line between them anymore, and I think that line makes them more enjoyable. With Running Scared, if you take away the comedy, if you take away the casting of those two guys, and you just make it straight, I don’t think it’s a good movie. I think it’s fine, but it’s just a poor man’s French Connection or something like that.

I think probably people see Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines on the cover as cops, and they just go, “Oh, this is not good.” It’s like what you said about Collision Course: You see Jay Leno and Pat Morita, and you’re, like, “Nope. No thank you. I’m out.” And I think when you’re trolling through Netflix—like, I saw the Movies You Might Like after Running Scared was over, and one was, like, Dead Heat with Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo, which I loved when I was a kid, but, uh, no, that’s not a good movie. Armed And Dangerous, with John Candy and Eugene Levy, that’s another example. I think if you saw this movie and that one on the shelf, you’d say, “Oh, both of these movies are bad.” And Armed And Dangerous was also not a good movie. I guarantee that it does not hold up. This one does, though. But you never hear anyone talk about it. I mean, is that just me? Do you ever hear anybody reference it?

The Dissolve: Not really. I remembered it fondly from when it originally came out, but before revisiting it in advance of this chat, it had been years since I’d seen it.

Scheer: Maybe one of the reasons it’s underrated is because it never did have a sequel. I feel like all the other movies like this had sequels, and they built on the buddy stuff, but Running Scared, it had the success, but it also had the patience to wait until they had the right script before doing a sequel. That’s pretty rare.

This is definitely a very underrated Buddy Cop movie, but the pacing gets in trouble when they go on vacation and the whole montage still makes me kind of cringe. Beyond that, this movie is awesome and definitely influenced all the one liner heroes in action films in the late 80's and 90's.

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