Sentences with phrase «honest young cop»

In director Matthew Daville's thriller, the 28 - year - old actor plays an honest young cop with deep suspicions about an otherwise - heroic detective (Edgerton) who claims to have discovered a hit - and - run accident involving a child, but was actually responsible for it.

He's an honest young cop who investigates a corrupt politician but gets railroaded to jail, and he also plays a lookalike character whom the cop meets in prison, where the two of them dream up a plan to switch places and exact their revenge on those who had them put away.

Of the newcomers, Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who has a strong resemblance to Heath Ledger) is excellent and endearing as an honest young cop, and one would guess he'd be a significant figure were the franchise to be renewed.