"Observe and Report", starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Peña, and Ray Liotta, is surprisingly emotional. It is funny, for sure, but it is also very human, evoking tears of sadness and of sympathy, feelings of grief for the things the characters are going through, and of happiness. In this day and age you'd be hard pressed to find a comedy film that depicts multi-layered, complex, realistic, and relatable characters, and that delivers plenty of hard laughs, but "Observe and Report" does all of this, and does it well, never forgetting that everyone, at their core, is flawed.Seth Rogen plays Ronnie, a bipolar mall security guard who has dreams of one day becoming an official police officer who can carry a gun. All Ronnie wants to do is make something of himself, and his delusions of grandeur grow in dangerous amounts throughout the film until they climax in a violent and bloody outburst where his dreams are finally fulfilled.Seth Rogen is fantastic in this role, and this is probably his best performance. He is an unlikeable character, a racist with violent tendencies, but you really can't help but like him, sympathize with him, and hope for the best for him. You know that he'd be okay if only he had a normal home life, if only people treated him with respect, if only he would continue to take his medicine regularly. And while watching this film, you realize that it isn't Ronnie himself that is a bad person, but rather it is his bipolar disorder that is making him choose bad decisions, that is making people treat him poorly, that is making him believe he doesn't have to continue taking is medication. Seth Rogen is utterly fascinating to watch on screen playing this character whom you want to root for, even when he goes a little bit insane.Collette Wolfe is also fantastic in this movie, and she has a scene that I will not spoil, but it is truly Oscar-worthy, and you'll know it when you see it. Honestly, her performance during that scene was so good and so emotional that I wept."Observe and Report" is marketed as a silly comedy, but it is much more than that. Of course, it does have its moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity, but underneath the surface, "Observe and Report" is a character study of Ronnie and an analysis of how bad mental illness can become if it is unchecked and taken lightly.

This is definitely not Seth Rogen's finest moment. And the movie was quite boring and not particularly funny. I didn't even laugh a single time throughout the entire movie.The story takes place in a mall; a mall that is troubled by a deviant flasher. It is up to the mall security to bring a halt to the flasher. Ronnie (played by Seth Rogen) dreams of becoming a police officer and sees the chance of solving the flasher case to be his stepping stone into the police academy.I will say that the jokes kind of fell short and didn't really bring home any punchlines. Truth be told, then I was laughing only when I watched the gag reel. And for a comedy, then it is really a killing blow that the movie itself fails to muster laughs from the audience.Not even Anna Faris or Ray Liotta could save this movie, despite the fact that Ray Liotta was the one with the most memorable performance in this entire movie. Collette Wolfe was also putting on a good performance, just a shame that she didn't have a bigger role."Observe and Report" is not a particularly good movie, and there are far better movies out there if you enjoy comedies.

This a simple story about a character who is self obsessed and arrogant. This is a movie about mall life and revolves around the mall's head of security. The story will seem a lot of cliché but the ending is not. Not to be expected too much of the movie but not too disappointing also. The central character has the bad habit of saying all out as he thinks in mind which annoyed all the people. last but not the least It does have a background teaching for the viewers about how you should keep pursuing your dreams. It surely is a one time watch (without a lot of expectations).Story: 5/10 Direction: 6/10 Acting/Actors/Characters: 6/10 Cinematography: 6/10 Structure and Impact: 7/10

On the surface, Observe and Report looks like the sort of cynical black comedy your parents would love to hate. Yet to my surprise I found it to be a movie of genuine substance. Rather than just giving me another reason to laugh at the chaos of life, it sneakily suggests an uncomfortable truth - that maybe everything is not meaningless, and maybe, just maybe, there is still something of value worth fighting for in this superficial pre-packaged life. When you "get" this movie, you realise it's not the post-modern mental chewing gum kids want, but rather a twisted but moral tale that parents should cheer... and it's this fact that made me laugh the most. This is a clever, interesting movie that betrays the expectations of the modern liberal audience - and I think this is why so many critics have panned it. They just wanted mental chewing gum, but got mental All-Bran instead. Observe and Report is a smirking, cynical tale about a typical "white trash" guy that few people have respect for, someone altogether forgettable and easy to mock - the mall security guard. Ronnie is the typical mall security guard supervisor, someone we know and generally dislike - a jumped up pseudo-cop who's modicum of power gives him a sense of excess, undeserved pride. Ronnie starts off as the fairly pathetic nobody we expect him to be - and we laugh at his antics. Yet despite his weaknesses, obsessions and sad life, Ronnie slowly proves himself to be someone bigger than he should be, and it's all because he believes in something genuinely good and real. Regardless of his borderline insanity, by the end, his stand for what he believes in earns him something we all want - respect and meaning in life. This movie cleverly takes us from using our own prejudices to laugh at Ronnie (as most movies do), to uncomfortably realising that maybe we suck for having these prejudices, because Ronnie, despite his own prejudices, limitations, and crappy life, actually believes in (and acts on) something good - and this alone makes him a valuable human being. So what if his achievements are small. So what is his life has its crappy parts. So what if he's borderline delusional. Ronnie has a belief in something that valuable to others... and in the end, he wins.There are enough reviews out there giving details of this movie's plot, so I won't get it that much. I just wanted to let you know that Observe and Report is on the surface a black, post-modern comedy, but underneath it's a story using a theme we all love, delivered in its own quirky way - the little guys overcomes adversity, takes up the challenge and in the end, wins the girl and the respect of his peers. I really enjoyed this movie and look forward to watching it again. If you like black humour and character-driven drama that doesn't pull its punches then you will really enjoy Observe and Report.