The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as two Los Angeles
beat cops who find themselves marked for death after a routine traffic stop turns into an epic drug bust that interferes with a notorious cartel.
Some of the superheroes who will be introduced to the viewing audience include Peter Petrelli, an almost 30 - something male nurse who suspects he might be able to fly, Isaac Mendez, a 28 - year - old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future when he is high, Niki Sanders, a 33 - year - old Las Vegas showgirl who begins seeing strange things in mirrors, Hiro Nakamura, a 24 - year - old Japanese comic - book geek who literally makes time stand still, D.L. Hawkins, a 31 - year - old inmate who can walk through walls, Matt Parkman,
a beat cop who can hear other people's thoughts, and Claire Bennet, a 17 - year - old cheerleader who defies death at every turn.
10:00 pm No edition of the IFFR is complete without a second - tier Takashi Miike film, and this year it was The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, a not - all - that - funny, very broad comedy about an inept
beat cop who is recruited to infiltrate a yakuza gang.
Antoine Fuqua's muddled but watchable crime thriller stars Richard Gere as a drunken
beat cop who's just a week away from retirement when he gets drawn into a dirty war between corrupt narcotics detectives.
Not exact matches
LA
beat cop Daryl Ward (Will Smith) is a (mostly) decent guy
who's been paired up with Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), the first orc appointed to the L.A. Police Department.
The most common protectors of bat sanctity are the equivalent to the
cops on the
beat, league umpires,
who are given a list of which bats are legal and which are not.
The NCOs have also been attending events in their individual sectors to get the word out and show their faces, and
cops who showed up unexpectedly at a meeting of the Battery Part City School PTA on April 13 earned accolades from parents enthused by the idea of the old - fashioned
beat cops, according to one member.
The idea behind neighborhood policing is pretty simple: The same
cops walk the same
beat day in and day out getting to know the New Yorkers
who live and work in the area they patrol.
Also among them will be Washington Heights City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez,
who was arrested and allegedly
beaten by police Tuesday morning as
cops evicted protesters from Zuccotti Park.
There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his
beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every
cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard,
who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.
«The men and women
who will be both the
beat cops of tomorrow and the leaders of the police force of tomorrow.»
He added, «To all those voters from Queens,
who sent this ex-Marine, former
beat cop to Albany to shake things up, I want to promise you, I remain unbought and unbossed!
Two Bronx
cops from the 46th Precinct were arrested on Monday for allegedly
beating a man
who apparently was heckling the officers after being arrested in February.
Conway, 61, of Camillus, won the job as Onondaga County's top
cop by
beating Democrat Toby Shelley,
who conceded around 10:45 p.m.
Research finds that a
cop who testified that he ran past a
beating without seeing it could be telling the truth.
«His budget would gut the EPA, for example, taking our environmental
cops off the
beat and allowing those
who would seek to pollute to get away with it.
When Rosalie received an email from Jeff,
who advertised in his online dating profile that «It's nice to know a
cop,» she immediately thought the worst and assumed that police officers
beat their wives.
But neither has had the courage to ride a train guarded by Shack (Ernest Borgnine), an unusually sadistic railroad
cop who will brutally
beat or even murder any man
who tries to catch a ride on his train.
Because the
cops could never find the murder weapon, the state's case comes apart at the seams when the defendant makes an undisputed accusation that his confession had been
beaten out of him by an officer
who had been secretly sleeping with his wife.
The two impart their wisdom to
beat cops,
who are equally accepting of and perplexed by their methods, and occasionally dip their sticks in some odd murders in the county.
Set to be directed by Gaghan as well, the story follows a deep cover agent
who loses everything and starts over as a
beat cop in Brooklyn only to discover the organized operation he was trying to bring down is alive and kicking right under his nose.
A few of the
beats don't work — some inspirational scenes would have been more powerful if they had been just a bit shorter — and there are some «Boston atmosphere» moments I just didn't quite believe (like the
cop who asks for a photo after pulling them over).
Even under thick layers of makeup, Edgerton is likable as Nick Jakoby, a monstrous - in - appearance but mostly sweetly dorky Orc,
who gets a job as an LAPD
beat cop in an alternate modern - day L.A. where fairies, elves and the like live uneasily alongside humans.
Wahlberg plays Billy Taggart, a New York
cop who, in the opening scenes,
beats a murder rap for shooting an acquitted - on - a-technicality rapist / murderer, but is forced to resign quietly from the force.
This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the
cop who teaches Ness how to
beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.
But Game Night comes together with a slightly cut - above script, a fine ensemble (Jesse Plemons adds plenty as the Davis» creepy
cop neighbor,
who longs for their friendship), and plotting that more or less organically incorporates character
beats.
The
cop and the guy put on a sound show for the partygoers — to make it appear as if this is a
cop who's willing to
beat anyone
who doesn't follow his orders.
I think «
Beat Cop» deserves an 8.5 for being strong enough to captivate anyone
who craves good character development and witty dialogue.
Creators Matt Fraction,
who grew up in «hurricane country» in North Carolina as well as in New York, talks about getting the inspiration for his latest Hawkeye comic while watching coverage of Hurricane Sandy: «There was all this devastation, but also all this inspiration — nurses keeping babies» hearts
beating with their bare hands,
cops waist - deep in water helping people out of their homes.»
Beat Cop casts the player in the role of Jack Kelly, a flashy detective
who gets busted down to walking a...
In return
beat down
cop, Sebastian can be reunited with his daughter
who he thought had died a few years previous.
It's rather like the
cops who shout «stop resisting» while
beating a person
who is actually compliant.