Harrelson's good, but if you've seen Internal Affairs with Richard Gere you really don't need to bother with this.

This has got to be the first movie ever where I found myself wishing the lead role was played by Nicolas Cage. That's not to say that Woody Harrelson wasn't a bad-ass character. Hell, he kills a man by letting the guy kick him in the gut so many times, the guy gets tired and collapses with a heart attack. It's just that this movie was crying for a dash of crazy...because without it, the whole experience was soul-numbingly dull.

Harrelson was born to play this part. He's got the chiseled looks and rough attitude to convincingly play a corrupt cop. The film's loose, grimy cinematography is fitting, and I'm glad things didn't get too over the top. This is definitely more of a character study than a "wow, this is one BAD cop!" sort of deal. The ending left me a bit cold, but the more I think about it the more appropriate it seems.

Interest starts out high, gradually decreasing until the screen appropriately fades to black. Good performances, but you can't help but wonder if they hadn't rather have had something to say.

Not even close to being the most corrupt cop I've ever seen on screen.

What a piece of shit ending!

looked promising, turned out to be ass-boring

68.000

Harrelson is excellent in this (Ben Foster is good here too), but I felt it could have used a more expansive ending/plot in general.

A rip-roaring character piece that focuses on a man composed of a godawful mixture of animalistic rage and human intelligence who is about as far from grace as is possible. It's not really emotionally engaging tho b/c we don't know enough about the character's past to understand why the h he's like this. We can only speculate. Basically it's purely a frightening spectacle in which Woody Harrelson reaffirms his prowess.

"If Robert Altman had made a cop drama, it might have looked and sounded like Rampart." - Glenn Heath Jr.

Moverman plus Harrelson once again equals acting gold. Woody is simply a force unleashed, switching between hardcore and sensitive. It's ultimately more of a character study than a crime plot - and a pretty damn awesome one.

meh, i mean harrelson is always good but the movie was just not very engaging for me

I literally spent the whole of this movie wishing I were watching Harvey Keitel's "Bad Lieutenant" instead. There's no denying the strength of Harrelson's performance, but the movie's annoyingly standoffish and self-satisfied in its trendy amoral bleakness, not to mention grating in its barrage of stark stylistic "flourishes." Flicks like this have gotta have a point or purpose aside from sheer straightforward miserablism, and this one doesn't. Not that I could tell, anyway.

Although the script is based on something more historical, this is basically Oren Moverman's entry into the Bad Lieutenant tradition (after Ferrara and Herzog), where our protagonist is an officer of the law but at the same time a rotten person. It's not as good as theirs were, nor does it match The Messenger. There is nothing too insightful here, I was frequently annoyed by the photography, and felt that it didn't make the most of the cast. It's still a decent movie by a promising filmmaker.

Woody Harrelson is a corrupt cop with nothing to lose!....and it's nowhere near as stupid as you might think. The second collab between director Moverman and actor Harrelson, Harrelson himself says it's his favourite film he's worked on.

Harrelson has gotten his second youth and a couple of recently great performances under the belt. He is the sole reason an otherwise pretty dull, but very pretty, film does not crash and burn. The trailer promises way to much and I ended up very dissapointed...

It was well acted and the idea was good, but I just felt like there was something missing that was required for me to really feel the emotional connection.