It's always hard to choose what movie to watch on TV, escpecially when you've never heard of them before. After watching the first scene of Swedish movie Kopps, I'm fairly confident this is a good one. Well-dressed man with moustache sitting on a restaurant dinner table. A lady later joined him. The lady immediately barraged him with questions. She decided he's not her type, and left even before the guy had a chance to order.Jacob (pronounced Yah-kob) is actually is a police officer in a sleepy Swedish town, where crime is yet to be invented. Because of the zero crime rate, the whole police force (4 police officers, the dispatcher, plus the police chief) spends most of its time eating sausage lunches, playing poker with old ladies (and losing), renovating the local grocery store, fooling around the station, and yes, patrolling the streets.
One day, another police officer called Jessica (pronounced Yessica) drops by to say that their station will be closed down due to budget cuts. Jessica turns out to be girl Jacob met at a bar last night, while he was waiting for his date. (Clueless Jacob assumed Jessica was his mystery date when he walked in the bar, and proceeded to chat her up, so it was a funny sight when his real date turned up.) Anyway, to stop the station from being closed, Jacob and his partner started committing petty crimes to boost the statistics - bribing the local drunkard to steal from the grocery, simulating shoot-outs in the woods, destroying cars, burning down the sausage shop, etc. When the other police officers found them out, they were outraged. "Where are going to have our lunch now?!"
Benny the warfreak Cop decides to do one better and stages a kidnapping involving his neighbor's kid and the drunkard (again). Everything was proceeding quite smoothly with Benny rushing through the woods and barging into the kidnapper's shack by himself. The boy was freed, and the "kidnapper" took him instead. That's when things started going wrong. The dispatcher called in the SWAT team because he thought the kidnapping is for real. Jacob sneaks into the shack to relay the news. A horde of SWAT cops storms into the woods. Apparently, Benny wasn't expecting this one because it's not part of the script. Jacob swapped clothes with the drunkard, and uses Benny as hostage, then drives off with the getaway car. Actually, it was Benny who did the driving. He was so pumped up, he drove like the action heroes in the Hollywood movies, even though nobody was chasing them. He manages flip over the car while making a sharp turn. Lo and behold! Benny is actually balding, a fact which even Jacob doesn't know. At this point, Benny goes melodramatic, crying about his lack of girlfriend, lack of hair, etc. etc.
The handcuffed Jacob and Benny makes a run for it, with the SWAT hot on their heels. Suddenly, Benny got a stomach ache and has to go right then and there. It was a funny sight when they were discovered by everyone. Benny with his wig askew, crouched and straining with his pants down; Jacob stooping a bit because of the handcuffs, trying to avoid the smell.
Regardless of the team's efforts, the police station still had to be shut down. Jessica tore up the report she made to spare everyone involved the embarrassment. Last scene shows the guys running a "Police Pizza" operation, and doing quite well. (Volvos make nice pizza delivery cars.)
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