Cop and a Half: New Recruit

Cop and a Half: New Recruit is a 2017 made-for-television sequel to the 1993 semi-popular crime comedy film Cop & 1/2 and stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Detective Simmons and Lulu Wilson as Karina Folely.

Plot
Karina Foley (Lulu Wilson), a little girl who’s crazy about law enforcement wants to become a police officer. Detective Simmons (Lou Diamond Phillips) isn’t really interested in having her as a partner. That is until both decide to join forces and bring down a criminal at large.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Poorly written story.
 * 2) Pointless cameo by Wallace Shawn as the principal.
 * 3) The humor is null in void.
 * 4) Lack of charm that the original film had despite the many flaws that were in the original.
 * 5) The film uses the same tag line the first film had - "One kid’s fantasy, one cop’s nightmare."
 * 6) None of the stars from the first one appear in this film.
 * 7) Our main child protagonist is arguably more annoying than Devon Butler, the child protagonist in the first film.
 * 8) Pointless opening narration by Karina.
 * 9) Unfunny quotes (e.g. Principal Miller stating that he hates the sound of his own voice.)
 * 10) Detective Simmons gets fired despite Karina being helpful.
 * 11) Weird ending.
 * 12) The subplot about Karina's father's baton feels very tacked-on.
 * 13) The dialogue gets very cut-and-paste: "The laser zapped my arms!" "We're not so different, you and I".
 * 14) At points, the film seems to be trying too hard to be 'modern', for example, the whole plot revolving around drones.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The film isn't a rehash of the first film.
 * 2) The idea of having an evil cop in the film was pretty creative, which wasn’t shown in the first film.
 * 3) Karina isn't as rude as Devon is.
 * 4) Simmons is a cool cop.
 * 5) The drones were interesting tactics that the new villain used.
 * 6) Karina's actress, Lulu Wilson, would later go on to star in Annabelle Creation.

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