Clever, self-reflexive policier that scores its points by being the very thing it parodies - yet it gets away with it. The usual odd-couple buddy movie cliches are rolled out while simultaneously being satirized. One actor pretends to be a cop while the other pretends to be an actor trying to learn from the former about how to portray a cop on screen. A brilliantly-acted movie that is also very funny because, rather than being half as funny, it is twice as funny as it hints at what really goes on in the minds of Method actors as they try to convince the public that they are what they are not.
Eventually the simulated reality of this movie comes to resemble the films the actor here regularly appears in; while realizing that reality is tougher than the silver screen. Here, comedy replaces suspense because we have seen this all before - and it works.
The romantic side of the movie is less than convincing and films about films are usually self-indulgent attempts evade the fact that a particular format or genre is tired out, but this is a helluva lot of fun.
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