Sentences with phrase «good cop thrillers»
Good cop thrillers, much like good hearts these days, are hard to find.
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The result is one of the best cop thrillers since «Training Day.»
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The way many of us view the death of Jesus on the cross is like some poorly scripted «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene from a crime thriller movie, except now it is «Good God, Bad God.»
Very interesting L.A. cop thriller with Keanu Reeves in his best role and performance since the Matrix films.
An action thriller starring Danny Trejo as the title character and Jonathan Banks as the villain (best known for Beverly Hills Cop and Breaking Bad) could go both ways... good and bad!
This well - done suspense - thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.
Fast - paced French thriller with a classic «cops think the good guy is the bad guy» hook.
[Writers] Cavayé and Lemans... dump all manner of double - dealing and good cop - bad cop intrigue into what could have been a wonderfully streamlined, character - driven thriller about an innocent man forced to do the bidding of criminals to save his family.
A dirty - cop thriller that never lets its scuzzy urban backdrop and tough - guy characters get in the way of a rocket - fuel plot, «Triple 9» is his most enjoyable and perhaps best movie to date.
Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).
cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).
Swerve (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Aussie crime thriller about a Good Samaritan (David Lyons) who ends up on the run from a ruthless hit man (Travis Hitman) and a crooked cop (Jason Clarke) after stopping to help a gun moll (Emma Booth) with a suitcase of cash at the scene of a car accident which claimed the life of her mobster beau.
The French Connection is heralded as one of the greatest thrillers ever made, and certainly ranks among the very best when it comes to films about cops and criminals, regardless of the subject matter.
Anecdotal supporting evidence arrives in the form of 36th Precinct, a top - notch criminal thriller import from France which finds a pair of cops skirting the edges of the law in the name of their jobs as well as macho competition.
Jerzy Skolimowski describes his next film, 11 Minutes, as a «catastrophic thriller,» suggesting that the Polish director's bit part in Joss Whedon's The Avengers was time well spent... The cast for John Hillcoat's Triple Nine, a thriller about crooked Los Angeles cops planning a robbery, includes Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, and Michael Peña... Mohsen Makhmalbaf lives!
The familiar tone and attitude should please die - hards, but those looking for something new will probably be bored by this overall feeling of sameness to the first two films, as well as to many other cop thrillers of the same era.
Carr's first novel was a surprise best - seller when it was published in 1994, but savvy trendspotters should have recognized all the ingredients that sometimes launch a literary thriller into the limelight: a mainstream crime - fiction plot (cops and shrinks track psycho killer) overlayed with some vivid history (late - nineteenth - century New York), and a famous hero (Teddy Roosevelt as the city's police chief).