ryan o'kane played devon butler in cop and a half.
ryan o'kane played devon butler in cop and a half.
who plays devon butler in cop and a half?
ryan o'kane
the film holds a 17% approval rating at the film review aggregator site rotten tomatoes, based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 2.8/10. jay boyar of the "orlando sentinel" wrote, "just about the only really enjoyable thing about cop and a half is norman d. golden ii, who is genuinely cute and a pretty good little actor besides." film critic and historian leonard maltin seemed to agree: "a hemorrhoid-and-a-half to anyone who sits all the way through this...abjectly painful comedy, which does about as much for reynolds' career as "stop! or my mom will shoot" did for sylvester stallone's." critic gene siskel also excoriated the film, seeing it as indicative of "artistic bankruptcy" on burt reynolds' part, and singled out norman d. golden ii's performance as "awkward". siskel later called it the worst movie of 1993. siskel speculated that nbc thought little of the film when they aired it in its broadcast-network debut, pointing out that they scheduled it opposite the 1997 super bowl. however, roger ebert gave it 3 stars out of a possible 4, saying, "there isn't much that's original in "cop and a half", but there's a lot that's entertaining, and there's a winning performance by a young man with a big name, norman d. golden ii, who plays little devon butler, a kid who dreams of someday wearing the shield."
cop and a half
devon butler (golden) is an eight-year-old boy who lives in tampa and dreams of being a cop. he watches police tv shows, knows police procedures and plays cops and robbers with his friend ray. one day, while snooping around in a warehouse, he witnesses a murder. he goes to the police, who want the information, but he refuses to give it unless they make him a cop. they then team him with veteran cop (and child hater) detective nick mckenna (reynolds), and they team up in a comic series of events to find the killer and take down a drug kingpin who ordered the hit. they eventually come to a mutual understanding in order to bring the killer to justice.
cop and a half