Properly, there’s Good Cop, Dangerous Cop, after which there’s Inept Cop, Belligerent Moron. Dangerous Man is the latter, a curious and very ineffectual explosion of misogyny and violence centered round two dopes. Lazily thrown collectively and held collectively by racist and sexual barbs, it’s a confounding mess that loses curiosity virtually instantly. Although my cinephilia is broad-ranging, I’m prepared to confess that typically a movie is just not for me, although Dangerous Man is the form of drivel that should not enchantment to anybody.
Dangerous Man Is An Affront On All Ranges
Colt Lake, Tennessee (inhabitants 2,512) is dealing with a meth epidemic. So, too, are they dealing with a criminal offense wave, or a minimum of a sudden homicide on Essential Road has rocked this tiny group to its core, sending a ripple via which everybody sees a chance to say energy.
For Deputy Sam Evans (Johnny Simmons), a former basketball star and present laughingstock, fixing a scandalous homicide may very well be a path in the direction of respect. Mayor Boone (Jack Conley) needs to make use of it as an excuse to scrub out the streets; although, what number of are there? Two?
Then there’s rogue spy Bobby Gaines (Seann William Scott), who reveals up like a twister, hell-bent on… I don’t know. Look, I don’t need to give something away out of journalistic integrity, however suffice it to say that Gaines is clearly hiding quite a bit, and it’s so patently absurd nobody calls this out that you just may end up shouting on the display.
…the issue is actual for the entire movie, improperly balanced as it’s between bro humor and gang violence.
Scott is magnificently unhealthy as Gaines. He truthfully doesn’t appear too far faraway from American Pie, although possibly that’s Michael Diliberti’s fault for writing an egotistical man whose braggadocio hinges on his obvious time “bringing Jesus” to Iraq. One of many movie’s weirder offenses is presenting Gaines as extra developed than his coworkers. At one level, the movie has him name out the racism of the locals, whereas he additionally asserts that with out him, we’d be “talking Arabic.” I suppose anti-Arab sentiment doesn’t rely as racism to Diliberti.
Evans and Gaines are tasked by Jesus-loving Chief of Police Sandy (Rob Riggle, probably the movie’s solely real supply of pleasure) to seek out out who killed their corpse and why. The late Chase Perdomo (previously of Netflix’s Gen V) can be right here as Evans’ greatest buddy and companion, DJ, whose principal high quality on this movie is that he’s a slacker. Perdomo’s inherent allure however, the function is totally dispensable.
Evans can be in love with the mayor’s daughter, Izzy (singer Lovi Poe), and, in between the movie’s lackluster stabs at rigidity, it tries to persuade us to care about this romance. Izzy is Filipino, and DJ is Black, and although the film does make just a few satirical references to the simultaneous fetishism and scapegoating of minorities, Diliberti (who wrote, directed, and edited Dangerous Man) principally indulges in the identical. Each characters’ ethnicities are performed for laughs, or else they’re exoticized.
In some unspecified time in the future, Gaines and Evans hint the homicide to Canine Downer’s crew (Ethan Suplee, appearing in a very completely different, extra sober movie). Dangerous Man then acts as if it hadn’t spent the primary two-thirds sitting round making intercourse jokes and tries to stability it with kinetic motion. It doesn’t work, and the issue is actual for the entire movie, improperly balanced as it’s between bro humor and gang violence.
At one level, Gaines tells Evans that there is no such thing as a such factor as man, simply unhealthy males, and males who bend however don’t break. However, I don’t know what which means, actually. Typically a movie is simply unhealthy, whether or not or not it’s for me.
- Launch Date
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September 5, 2025
- Runtime
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97 minutes
- Director
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Michael Diliberti
- Writers
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JJ Nelson