Here's one for you: in a precinct full of corrupt cops, it's the one
good cop whose past comes back to haunt him.
Not exact matches
The tiny faces appear «painted» on, but are also interchangeable, which supports Liam Neeson's hilariously conflicted police officer (
whose head rotates to reveal both Bad
Cop and
Good Cop personalities) and a wide range of crazy, caricatured expressions for everyone else.
Ethan Hawke is the desperate young
cop whose family just keeps growing (his wife Lili Taylor is pregnant with twins) and he longs to provide
better living arrangements.
Yet another urban action drama,
better than some, worse than most, this stars Bruce Willis as a disillusioned middle - aged detective
whose latent sense of justice is triggered when he is asked to accompany a witness (Mos Def) to the courthouse and finds that his fellow corrupt
cops want to kill the guy.
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).
Problem is, she's den mother to a cabal of ne'er - do -
wells,
whose armed bank robberies have made them marked men by
cops, some of whom play by the rules and some of whom have no qualms with vigilante justice.
The fact remains that if you have the constitution for it, this is a surprisingly entertaining film — not a
good film, but a diverting one
whose unpleasant sexual politics are leavened somewhat by its baldly formulaic nature, including what I have to assume are unintentionally hilarious interludes that find the killer taunting the
cop by telephone.
A control freak of a CEO with world domination on his mind, his obsessive disdain for creative expression has turned him into the maniacal Lord Business,
whose bidding his carried out by the swivel - headed Bad
Cop /
Good Cop (Liam Neeson).
Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a
cop out by those
whose job it is to find
good solutions for public schools.