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Foreign-exchange cop movies

posted 15 years ago by djensen1
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This seems to me to be the best example of the "foreign-exchange cop" movie sub-genre of the "buddy cop" genre.

I can think of:

- Beverly Hills Cop (Detroit cop goes to Beverly Hills)
- Dead Heat (Dead cop solves crime in world of the living)
- 48 Hrs (criminal becomes fake cop with real cop)
- Blue Streak (criminal becomes fake cop with real cops)
- Demolition Man (old-school cop thawed out to solve crime in future)

What are some others? Surely there has to be some cop-from-the-future who solves a crime in our time, right? Terminator doesn't count. What was Time Cop about?

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[–] smoko 14 years ago

Guess I'll be the one to say it, Rush Hour.

[–] sdorph 14 years ago

-Collision Course with Jay Leno and Pat Morita

'In order for one to be affected by insults, one must have some respect for their source'

[–] tnargskrap 14 years ago

French Connection 2.

[–] Stryker-X 14 years ago

Die Hard I
John Mclaine the New York cop who shoots lots of German terrorist up in a tall building in Los Angeles.

[–] herbie20032002 13 years ago

Showdown in Little Tokyo (Brandon Lee and Dolph Lundgren)

Rapid Fire (Brandon Lee-Witness with Power Boothe-Macho Cop)

[–] ubcool 13 years ago

American Dragons. just a Rush Hour rip off with Micheal Biehn. not too bad though.
The Corruptor. same sort of thing.
The Rookie. old clint with a young sheen.

[–] Vdcnsrg 11 years ago

Alien Nation with James Caan