Sentences with phrase «good police movie»

«The Laughing Policeman» is an awfully good police movie: taut, off - key, filled with laconic performances.

Not exact matches

The eventual showdown between the police and the now - notorious Tsarnaev siblings is visceral and exciting, to be sure, but Berg diminishes the impact of this stretch by following it with an astonishingly anti-climactic finale (which is capped off with interminable interview footage with real - life participants in the attack)- with the end result a passable endeavor that probably would've fared better had it been helmed by almost anyone else (ie the movie is decent in spite of Berg's involvement rather than because of it).

Nerve - rattling in the best way, the sharp, visceral urban police procedural End of Watch is one of the best American cop movies I've seen in a long time.

There are a few good performers in here, but the gags are in a weird place between Police Academy and Airplane 2, and the movie is faking being madcap — it's been cautiously cobbled together.

Police movies so often depend on sheer escapist action that it's fun to find a good one.

The actors were joined by the movie's director Peter Berg as well as producers Michael Radutzky and Scott Stuber, writer Terence Winter, police detective Bo Dietl, and police officer Raymond Kelly.

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

In most movies, the police chief, Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), would normally be the smirking face of might - as - well - be Southern law enforcement.

(Italy) George Harrison: Living In The Material World, music documentary directed by Martin Scorsese (USA) Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

I also appreciated the versatility of Sidney Lumet, who was best known for his gritty urban police movies like «Serpico,» «Dog Day Afternoon» and «Prince of the City» but who also made the raucous satire of television, «Network,» the all - star Agatha Christie mystery, «Murder on the Orient Express,» and film versions of Eugene O'Neill's «Long Day's Journey Into Night» and Mary McCarthy's «The Group.»

Sure, the movie threw out some of the novel's human subplots, especially those involving an adulterous affair between the Oceanographer character (played in the movie by Richard Dreyfus) and the Chief of Police's wife, but this is all for the better ultimately.

To put some sort of perspective on things, that's almost double the number of «Police Academy» films ever made — and, as someone who spent the bulk of the mid-late 80s hiding in the woods from Steve Guttenberg, I know only too well that that's a LOT of movies.

This buddy movie / cop comedy takes its cue from such police - dog stories as «Turner and Hooch» — which it directly references — as well as the 1990 TV pilot «Poochinski,» in which the ghost of a murdered detective ends up inhabiting a gassy English bulldog.

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the picture, which claims to be «based on a true story» but turns out to be as authentic as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, finds William Parker (Nick Nolte), the city's controversial chief of police (who didn't actually obtain the post until a year after the movie's setting, but never mind), deciding that the best way to stop gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over the entire city is to organize an elite team to work outside the law in an attempt to bring him down.

Hot - head police captains, torturous and talky bad guys, drug busts, loose cannon cops, some domestic drama, and car chases represent the bases you'd have to touch in order to make a decent rehash, but outside of a couple of scenes of Paul regurgitating famous film lines from cop flicks of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies of other genres and eras as well), there isn't much to Cop Out one could call a loving spoof.

It also details the controversy surrounding the film's depiction of lesbian and bisexual characters, which involved a conference demanding the majority of the narrative be changed in addition to protests / rallies as well as a restraining order enforced by police guarding the movie set that led to mass arrests.

The police procedural is a wildly well - liked literary, tv, and movie style, however comparatively few sport builders have efficiently captured the fun of cracking a case.