The Thin Blue Line 2

The Thin Blue Line 2 is a 2009 American action comedy film. It is the adaption of the 1995-1996 television series including Rowan Atkinson and set in the same continuity as the TV series except that it has changed geographically featuring Andrew Daly, Kevin James, Dave Foley, Jackie Chan, and Darri Ignolfsson.

Plot
When a mall employee named Roscoe Morrison, who is a skillful pinball player, is found beaten to death on top of a pinball machine, the Mayor gives orders to Lieutenant Jefferson to reassign Bronson from his task as a beat cop to solve the case since the mall's owner is a contributor to his political party. Bronson decides to work undercover as a security guard while Wang investigates the crime as a detective.

During the case, Wang learns that a mall employee named Gerald was the one who found Roscoe's dead body, that there is a lot of tension between Roscoe and a security guard named Horace, and that Roscoe had an affair with several women. While working undercover, Bronson is assigned to train James Moriarty, who is new but uninterested in the job. However, Bronson is unaware that Moriarty is actually an alias that Randall Owens is using and Bronson doesn't even recognize him. A few months ago, at a psychiatric hospital, former building inspector Randall Owens is largely recovered from his obsession to kill Bronson and is about to be released when Bronson, arriving to speak on Owens' behalf, drives Owens insane again. Owens promptly escapes from the asylum and once again schemes to kill Bronson.

Bronson becomes acquainted with with Alice Briggs (Jenny McCarthy), who is one of the suspects in the case. Judy invites Bronson to her apartment on a date, however, Bronson ends up destroying her apartment by accident. In the meantime, Wang discovers the Alice, Portia, and Lola lured Roscoe into the parking lot where they almost beat him to death for having cheated on all of them with each other. Wang then arrests those females concluding that they killed Roscoe since Alice put laxatives in Roscoe's drink before he died just to get revenge on him. Bronson gives orders to have Alice released from prison which brings him into conflict with Wang since Wang is aware that Bronson is madly in love with her.

Two days later while Bronson is still working undercover, on the night of Black Friday, an organized gang of thugs disguised as Santa's Village employees begin what appears to be a bank heist inside the mall. They take Alice and other customers in the bank hostage. Owens is revealed as the gang's leader – his mall security job was a ploy to gather intelligence. They are keeping the hostages as insurance for the gang's escape. The crew forces shoppers to exit the mall and strategically places motion sensors around each entrance to detect any attempt to enter or exit the building.

Bronson takes a break in the arcade and plays Detroit Rock City via Rock Band. He eventually walks back out in the mall, and discovers the entire mall is evacuated and under a state of emergency. Upon realizing this, he calls the NYPD, and slips out of the mall to speak with Wang. Bronson realizes that Alice is still inside after spotting her car in the parking lot and decides to return to the mall to look for her. A state SWAT team soon arrives with Jefferson, who orders Bronson to let them handle the situation. After spotting Alice as one of the hostages, Bronson refuses and attempts a rescue. Vastly outnumbered, Bronson takes a stand against Owens' crew using improvised measures to take them down one by one. He discovers credit card codes written in invisible ink on the burglars' arms and realizes that their real plans go beyond robbing the bank.

Bronson manages to arrest all of Owens' accomplices and attempts to evacuate the hostages by pulling them up through an air vent. The plan fails since Bronson is not that strong. Owens enters the room, capturing Bronson, and forcing him to give up the credit card codes he recorded on his cell phone. Owens escapes, kidnapping Alice. As police swarm the mall to apprehend the criminals and rescue the hostages, Bronson borrows a display minivan and joins Wang in pursuing Owens to the airport, where he is attempting to flee the country.

Holding him at gunpoint, Owens demands that Bronson hands over the phone containing the codes, who refuses and responds by smashes the phone into the ground. Before Owens can retaliate by shooting Bronson, Wang shoots Owens in the arm. Owens is arrested and Alice is returned safely. Bronson reveals that while working undercover as a security guard, he took a look at the security footage on the night that Roscoe died. After Roscoe was beaten, Gerald took him to the arcade. Upon reviewing the security logging, Bronson realizes that Gerald checked out after the time in which Roscoe died. Jefferson rebukes this theory until the coroner calls Wang to reveal how Roscoe's death was actually from being strangled and not from being beaten badly by a crowbar. Gerald admitted to killing Roscoe for making fun of him and due to being jealous of Roscoe.

For successfully solving the case, Bronson gets a medal from the Mayor of New York for a job well done. While leaving the ceremony with Wang, Bronson gets Jefferson's suit caught in his car door; he remains oblivious to Jefferson's screams as Wang drives away into the sunset.

Cast

 * Andrew Daly as Sergeant Lazlo Bronson
 * Jackie Chan as Detective Jack Wang
 * Kevin James as Captain Pete Jefferson
 * Dave Foley as the Mayor
 * Darri Ignolfsson as Randall Owens
 * Kunal Nayyar as Victor Kapoor
 * Sharon Tay as CNN Reporter


 * Matthew Lillard as Roscoe
 * Kevin Kline as Gerald
 * Allen Covert as Horace
 * Jenny McCarthy as Alice
 * Vanessa Williams as Portia
 * Laura Spencer as Lola