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BY THE BOOK

WILD CARDS

The Buddy-Cop Matrix


In honor of ‘Bad Boys for Life’ — Michael Bay’s new entry into the esteemed canon of
police-friendship cinema — we charted the best uniformed duos in film. The criteria: the
unlikeliness of each pairing, and their willingness to bend the rules By ANNA PEELE

Jackie Chan and
Chris Tucker, Rush Hour, 1998
Physically dexterous Chinese detective
+ verbally dexterous LAPD detective
Ethan Hawke and
Denzel Washington,
Training Day, 2001
Lightly goateed idealist +
heavily goateed crook

Mel Gibson
and Danny Glover,
Lethal Weapon, 1987
Violent, depressed
sergeant + sergeant
who coined the
phrase “I’m getting
too old for
this shit”

Nick Nolte and
Eddie Murphy,
48 Hours, 1982
Curmudgeonly
inspector +
conscripted
convict

Adam Driver and
John David Washington,
BlacKkKlansman, 2018
Jewish cop infiltrating
the KKK + black cop infiltrating
the KKK

Channing Tatum
and Jonah Hill,
21 Jump Street,
2012, 2014
Athletic buffoon
+ book-smart
buffoon

Nicholas Cage and
Sean Connery, The Rock, 1996
Genius FBI chemist + intelligence and
jail-breaking expert

Will Smith and
Martin Lawrence,
Bad Boys,
1995, 2003, 2020
Charming,
single hometown
detective + charming,
married hometown
detective

Melissa McCarthy and
Sandra Bullock, The Heat, 2013
Slob-kabob detective
+ stickler FBI agent

Simon Pegg and
Nick Frost,
Hot Fuzz, 2007
High-achieving constable
+ constable who is
a fan of buddy-cop
movies

Will Smith and Tommy
Lee Jones, Men in Black,
1997, 2002, 2012
Excitable extraterrestrial
agent + low-affect
extraterrestrial agent

Brad Pitt
and Morgan
Freeman,
Se7en, 1995
Wrathful young
detective +
placid elder
detective

Emily Blunt and Daniel
Kaluuya, Sicario, 2015
Naive FBI agent + uncorrupt-
but-more-appropriately-
cynical FBI agent

Sidney Poitier and
Rod Steiger, In the Heat
of the Night, 1967
Unimpeachable black police
officer + relatively not-
so-racist (but still definitely
racist) police chief

Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider,
The French Connection, 1971
Obsessive narcotics detective +
narcotics detective obsessed
with his partner

Jeff Bridges and
Gil Birmingham,
Hell or High
Water, 2016
Texas ranger who’s
not quite ready to
retire + Texas ranger
with one foot out
the door

Ice Cube and
Kevin Hart,
Ride Along,
2014
Protective
detective + skittish
security guard

Tom Hanks and Beasley,
Turner & Hooch, 1989
Human with doglike enthusiasm
and loyalty + dog

Will Ferrell
and Mark Wahlberg,
The Other Guys,
2010
Flaccid detective
+ throbbing
detective

Willem Dafoe
and Gene Hackman,
Mississippi
Burning, 1988
Calm yankee FBI
agent + rootin’,
tootin’, yeehawin’
FBI agent
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