Observe and Report

[talion]

You get the impression watching the trailers that this is yet another comedy about a doofus who makes good, somehow. The problem is that in most movies of this type there's something lovable or or sweet about the idiot that makes you want to root for him. In this movie the idiot is just and idiot, and it's pretty much impossible to like him. He doesn't stop being an idiot either, and his main nemeses throughout the plot are all more likable than he is. He doesn't seem to grow during the movie, his role and his character don't evolve, and at the end of the movie he's still the offensive ignoramus he was when he started.

Maybe this is supposed to be a darker reversal of the standard character, but I just can't credit it with that much insight. The biggest crime is that it's just not very funny. I'd give it a D.