Ed Helms plays a cop struggling to keep his girlfriend's son safe in Michael Dowse's Netflix action-comedy costarring Taraji P. Henson. Read THR's review of 'Coffee & Kareem':
A tone-deaf attempt to recreate the nasty comic vibe people associate with certain '80s buddy cop films, Michael Dowse'snames a key character for director Walter Hill, just to make sure we know what it's going for. Then it tweaks the Eddie Murphy-era format by pairing a white cop with a distractingly foul-mouthed black twelve-year old. It tosses this unlikable duo into a contrived scenario of dirty cops, drug dealers, strip clubs and endless reversals of fortune.
Officer Coffee is predictably terrified of his girlfriend's kid, and has to be tricked into picking him up from school for an afternoon of attempted bonding. But Kareem is such a lowlife that he gets the pair tangled up with a drug gang headed by a rapper just as the rapper's henchmen kill a police officer.
Predictable misunderstandings occur, and soon TV newscasts are full of reports that Coffee is a "psycho cop" who has kidnapped a child he probably intends to molest. Back at the station, Coffee's coworkers are hardly rushing to his defense. In fact, one — a hero detective played much too broadly by Betty Gilpin — is an obvious bad guy who starts setting Coffee up for a fall.
The further an actor is from a leading role here, the more likely she is give an unembarrassing performance. Henson fares all right for most of the film, at one point even getting to voice viewers' annoyance with dialogue that believes "you're a bitch!" / "no,a bitch!" counts as edgy banter. But Vanessa is dragged through the mud here as well — tased by her own son, handcuffed by her lover in the toilet of a no-tell motel. She'll forgive them, of course.
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