There’s politically incorrect, and then there’s just plain wrong. Netflix’s “Coffee & Kareem” pairs a young black kid with an inept white cop and hopes that their differences will amuse (or at …
Netflix’s “Coffee & Kareem” pairs a young black kid with an inept white cop and hopes that their differences will amuse stuck-at-home audiences for 90 minutes or so.
The twist, as you probably figured out, is that Kareem is better suited to defending himself than this particular police officer. If they’ve got just one gun between them, it would be better off in the young man’s hands. or the “Goon” helmer’s decision to cast Helms, Dowse knows how to handle action. His surprisingly entertaining last film, “Stuber,” has practically all the elements this one aspires to, but flopped hard last summer. “Coffee & Kareem” delivers a couple good chases, a well-choreographed drug bust and one of those atmospheric climaxes set in an ominous steel mill where dangerous chemicals trickle slowly toward flames that could make everything erupt into a massive fireball.
Those movies were all conceived to land comfortably in the PG to PG-13 range. Because they were for kids. “Coffee & Kareem” is constructed around the childhood fantasy of getting a front seat to an action-packed police ride-along, but shoots for a more extreme kind of humor.
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