Seeing the snob-jobs at Variety and AV Club rip this movie apart with their oblivious snark and condescension absolutely tickles the hair on my low-hanging cajones. These dolts went into this film and took it seriously for it's entire running time -- something that the film itself doesn't even bother to do (take itself seriously, that is). Officer Downe isn't supposed to make you exercise your mental faculties and explore your human condition with existentialist philosophy or nihilistic dialogue; it doesn't even pretend to be some symbolic, cinematic treatise on the nature and duality of good/evil and criminality. What it DOES do is embrace it's b-movie, grindhouse graphic novel roots with effortless hilarity as it inundates the viewer with some of the most ridiculous imagery and primal behavior imaginable in a mainstream release.
Kim Coates is a cunnilingus master who spends as much time between his trophy girlfriends legs as he does playing Highlander on the streets of LA, racking up bad guys' bodies and absorbing bullets due to his immortality. The fact that critics couldn't catch on to the inherent action-movie satire dripping from every frame in this movie--especially after seeing It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia waxing criminality in an Australian accent with a pornstar nun--further proves that there's merit to the saying, 'too smart for your own good.'
If you liked Happy! With Christopher Meloni, you'll love Officer Downe (and vice versa, if you liked Officer Downe, you'll love Happy! With Christopher Meloni). I also recommend catching the single-season one-hit wonder of a show 'Blood Drive' from SyFy Network if you liked Officer Downe.
This is mindless blood, boobage and barbarism, and oh boy is it just delicious. Check it out on Netflix today if you are capable of removing the stick from your supine orifice and embrace the pandering toxic masculinity and mindless self-indulgence Officer Downe serves up on a golden platter.
7/10
Kim Coates is a cunnilingus master who spends as much time between his trophy girlfriends legs as he does playing Highlander on the streets of LA, racking up bad guys' bodies and absorbing bullets due to his immortality. The fact that critics couldn't catch on to the inherent action-movie satire dripping from every frame in this movie--especially after seeing It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia waxing criminality in an Australian accent with a pornstar nun--further proves that there's merit to the saying, 'too smart for your own good.'
If you liked Happy! With Christopher Meloni, you'll love Officer Downe (and vice versa, if you liked Officer Downe, you'll love Happy! With Christopher Meloni). I also recommend catching the single-season one-hit wonder of a show 'Blood Drive' from SyFy Network if you liked Officer Downe.
This is mindless blood, boobage and barbarism, and oh boy is it just delicious. Check it out on Netflix today if you are capable of removing the stick from your supine orifice and embrace the pandering toxic masculinity and mindless self-indulgence Officer Downe serves up on a golden platter.
7/10