National Security

• Action
• Comedy
• Crime

Despite sharing screen time with a disgraced LAPD officer, Earl Montgomery, a spectacularly failed police academy candidate, isn’t interested in upholding the law – he’s interested in exploiting loopholes and escalating petty conflicts for personal amusement. Thrown together as security guards, their dysfunctional partnership unexpectedly uncovers a smuggling ring, forcing an uneasy alliance built on mutual exasperation and contrasting approaches to “justice.” The film distinguishes itself through its relentless, almost chaotic comedic energy, deriving humor not from clever plot twists but from the gloriously mismatched dynamic between Montgomery’s impulsive bravado and Rafferty’s reluctant normalcy. It’s a buddy cop film that pointedly avoids heroic posturing, instead reveling in the incompetence and self-serving motivations of its protagonists, creating a surprisingly playful, if cynical, take on the action-comedy genre.