![]() They have great chemistry, and Jackson fits easily into the Die Hard mold of an everyday guy thrown into an incredible situation. Willis and Jackson had recently appeared together in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but the two don’t actually share any scenes in that film, so it was exciting to see these two commanding actors carry an entire movie together. Jackson’s prickly pawn shop keeper Zeus Carver to stop a mad bomber from blowing up half the city. But Die Hard with a Vengeance teamed Bruce Willis’ grizzled hero cop John McClane with Samuel L. It creates a fun game that is indelibly watchable and doesn’t require you to be familiar with the tropes it’s playing with.ĭie Hard is a series about one man fighting against the odds, so I admit it’s unusual to see a Die Hard movie on a list of buddy cop films. Ferrell is the quiet straight man, and Wahlberg is the outspoken idiot who can’t actually pull off any of the badass things we’ve seen him do in countless other films. ![]() It’s a send-up of the buddy cop tropes, but the movie does such a good job of restraining Ferrell and Wahlberg from their respective personas that it results in a wholly unique film that continually defies your expectations in the best possible way. (It’s so good, in fact, that they did a whole other series together with the Daddy’s Homemovies.) Ferrell plays a ludicrously stuffed shirt police detective primarily concerned with low action crimes like tax evasion, while Wahlberg longs for the action of a car chase or a high stakes drug bust. ![]() The Other Guys should technically be disqualified because it is a spoof of buddy cop movies, but the chemistry between Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell is undeniable. ![]()
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