As much as it may seem like it, this is not the Christy pick for April. Nor is it an April Fool's joke. My friend Bethany picked it off the server while we were deciding what to watch. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.Don't be misled. It's still bad. But it's an enjoyable kind of bad, not a burn-my-eyes-out kind of bad.
Agent Castillo (Michael Pena) is used to running undercover operations for the FBI so when he is assigned to the California Highway Patrol to investigate what are believed to be dirty cops involved in a series of armored car robberies, he is nonplussed. He is less enthusiastic about his new partner, Jon (Dax Shepard), a former Motorcross rider with a failing marriage and a litany of physical problems on probationary hire. Jon uses therapy speak, can't move when it rains, and pops pills nearly constantly, but manages to have some useful insight into the case. Begrudgingly, Castillo opens up to his new partner and the pair pool their knowledge in order to stop the ring of thieves.
Rest assured, this is profoundly stupid movie based on a TV show that never really needed to be remade. Ponch and Baker are terrible at their jobs and are only made bearable by the charisma of Pena and Shepard. Plotlines are introduced only to be summarily dismissed, unless they can be ridden into the ground as jokes, and legitimately moving moments are squandered by the same impulse. Dax Shepard has a host of famous friends but doesn't seem to know how to just let them do their jobs without rushing through. The only one that mostly escapes is Rosa Salazar, who is becoming enough of a star now that this will soon just be a blip on her IMDb page.
For a Saturday of day-drinking with friends, this isn't the worst way to spend your time. I will have to re-watch it when I circle back to the Cs to see if that's the only mitigating factor, however.
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