Reviews of Cops
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Oswaldo Colón Ortiz
3Dec08
A great short film. Keaton was always delivering something new in comedy, always innovative and fresh.
The best part of them was when grab on the running automobile to scape, he looked like entirely like a cartoon, and the most impressive thing is that it was for real….I think (he would do most of his stunts without any safety)
Do they have Sherlock Jr. ?; that is should definitely a must around this site if not around, if so then I strongly recommend it. Is one of his most brilliant comedies, I think ahead of his time back then.
Kim Packard
8Apr08
Keeping the viewers’ attention for 18 minutes with a series of visual gag requires quite a bit of imagination and effort as this film easily demonstrates. The scene with a long plank of wood pivoting back and forth across the top of a fence like a seesaw is surprisingly poetic while the horse-drawn cart driven by Buster Keaton in the middle of a police parade is almost like an awkward and embarrassing happenstance that could be true and stranger than fiction. If anything can go wrong, it does, and the treatment of the entire 18-minute episode comes across like a narration of a lover’s worst nightmare. There is definitely a place for a topsy-turvy carnavalesque comedy such as this in a world where, realistically-speaking, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot always put Humpty Dumpty together again when he falls and breaks.
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.