Paul Blart: Mall Cop Review

That’s plain indecisiveness and the only word that describes this film.

The movie is based on what’s happening all over the world right now; hooligans commandeering a busy shopping mall but this time with a difference – they are not asking for any hefty amounts as ransom but the credit-card security codes. So Paul Blart – Mall Cop jumps into the scene. And what follows can be best described as an unending series of jokes that are predictable at best. Blame the director (Steve Carr) for that, but also don’t spare the star and the co-writer (Kevin James) of the movie. But he must get a little more share of the blame, being one of producers of the movie.

The movie definitely deserves a few credits for the funny moments and for the humor, but being a lazy one, it fails to grab your attention for long. And of course, it’s the formulated twists and turns that stop surprising you before you are even halfway through.

The villains or the bad guys here lack that bad feel a bit too much; they fail to shoot and think straight and shows up as one of the biggest drawbacks of the film. The others are none but Blart’s portrayal; agreed that specialization is for insects, but trying to stretch one’s own capabilities without learning how to do it properly is – at best – ridiculous. You cannot be gung-ho and a lovesick puppy at one breath and turn into an oversized action hero in the very next. That’s a plain lack of character development but then again, may be that’s why the film also lacks any foul language, graphic violence and the rest that define today the one good guy against so many bad people movies. Recommended strictly for the kids who haven’t learnt yet to think beyond the waterguns.

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