Some light chuckles, that's about it. It occasionally hits the sweet spot of making good on its premise but far too often characters are being either too incompetent or too competent, or it's taking up too much time with actual crime stuff and no jokes. And packed with Brit comedians (including three Taskmaster contestants - Nick Mohammed, Sophie Duker, Katie Wix - plus This Time's Susannah Fielding for good measure) but they all only show up for about two minutes each and don't have much to do.
Also, they make the utterly bizarre decision, in a movie about three actors pretending to be criminals, to include a pair of cops who act exactly like they're actors pretending to be cops but are actually just cops. I just had a look at the Wikipedia, and turns out they're played by the writers, so I guess they cared more about giving themselves roles than the movie working properly. Also pretty funny that one of their individual pages starts by saying that they were met with critical acclaim for Deep Cover, which is not something that any of the other massively-acclaimed actors have in their opening summary and has a whiff of the self-written. (The proof is that it got a 91% RT score which as we all know means fuck all, especially when you click through to the reviews and the positive ones are all just the faintest of praise.)
(Finally, this is a nitpick, but there's already a film called Deep Cover. It only came out in 1992. Pick another name! That's such a bland title and it doesn't even wholly reflect your premise!)
Rating: it's fine, but you'd be better off watching Galaxy Quest, Tropic Thunder or The Three Amigos again.
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