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Gerard Butler is back and he’s playing… a hitman?

5th August 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

*** Read my four-star Copshop review ***

Wait, what? I feel like my two favourite actors have been shoved into the dodgy teleporter from The Fly and come out with their DNA all mixed up.

The one-minute teaser trailer for upcoming thriller Copshop has arrived, and luckily — as I like my Hollywood lust-buckets to stay in their own lanes — the synopsis makes it sound more like Home Alone for assassins than Scottish John Wick:

Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden Crown Vic, wily con artist Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) hatches a desperate plan to hide out from lethal hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler): He sucker-punches rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. But jail can’t protect Murretto for long. Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission. When the arrival of a competing assassin (Toby Huss) ignites all-out mayhem, mounting threats force Viddick to get creative if he wants to finish the job and escape the explosive situation.

Giant-handed Gerard Butler AS Bob Viddick

On first watch the teaser is jerky and confusing, all blues and yellows, fire and balloons, and I would have had no clue what was going on without reading the synopsis. Still, people said that about Geostorm, and I gave that 3.5 out of 5. There are terrible moustaches aplenty and Butler is all leather jacket and unwashed hair, and looking very much like Den, I mean Big Nick, from Den of Thieves — though in that one he played an actual cop, if one who was actually worse than the bad guys.

Anyway, I’ve watched this trailer five times now and it makes a lot more sense, even if I want to slather him in Head & Shoulders.

Here’s the trailer:

Copshop stars Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss, Ryan O’Nan and Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau and is directed by Joe Carnahan from a screenplay Carnahan co-wrote with Kurt McLeod.

It’s exclusively in UK cinemas on 10 September 2021 and is out in the US on 17 September.

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: AAA, Alexis Louder, cop shop, copshop, Frank Grillo, Gerard butler, joe carnahan, thriller

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