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Summary: one of stallone's best
Review: I like Cop Land because of the ensemble cast of great actors and actresses. you got your Stallone and your DeNiro and your Keitel and your Liotta and your Berg and others that really put this movie to the level it should be. Stallone I think is great in this movie, period. his career got a little down hill when he made Driven and others beyond that but you look back at his other movies like this one and Daylight, Cliffhanger and the Rocky movies and you just remember the good roles. DeNiro is always sparking the screen with his big roles and this is another for his career. Liotta is great also and he's had some fine movies as well like Narc, Unlawful Entry, Turbulence, Identity and a whole lot of others. but anyway, this one is dynamite and it explodes at you. lots of action and mystery really connect the dots and I enjoyed the ride
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Summary: Welcome To Garrison New Jersey
Review: Here's the deal: Take Stallone ("Rocky"), De Niro ("Heat"), Liotta ("GoodFellas") and Keitel ("Mean Streets") and put them together and you have probably one of the best ensemble casts you can assemble for a movie. Make a great screenplay and idea and you got a great movie on your hands. The characters are all cops (some crooked, some not) and they all have great lines and play their characters with real authenticity. I live in New Jersey and regularly visit the towns where the film was shot (although it's amazing that in the seven or eight years sinse filming how the locations have changed so dramatically). The realism of the mannerisms and speech patterns are so on target it's scary. It always helps when the cast is really from the East Coast. The cops (whether crooked or not) are all pretty depressed in general displayed by the fact that they are all fat and sluggish, smoke like chimneys and drink like fish at local hangouts. Let's face it fellow Jersey folk: that familiar suburbian boredom of any small Garden State town has lead us all into a "Figgs"-like self-destructive phase. None of the stars of this film took their regular million dollar paychecks (if they hadn't taken pay cuts this film would never have been made) and they all put on the needed weight and sport the bad hair and clothes, showing that the stress of their work-a-day lives has pushed personal hygene and general happiness on the back burner. The movie is more of a character study (much like "Mean Streets" or "Pulp Fiction") with twists and turns and surprises. Garrison, NJ is a fictitious name (probably derived from nearby Harrison) and the movie was filmed across the river from NYC in the run-down (but relatively livable) Edgewater and neighboring towns before Starwood and other hot shot developers built up the waterfront land with condos, stores, restaurants and many other attractions--making the area congested and city-like, a dream for tourists and shoppers. Views of the Manhattan skyline are prevalent at all times and being an East Coaster, I can identify with a lot of this films' themes. Probably one of Stallone's best performances, I'd highly reccommend CopLand to be viewed more than once. If you are a JerseyGoomba like me and a Soprano fan you will particularly enjoy this flick with supporting roles from the likes of Edie Falco before she was Carmela and watch out for Davey Scatino, Gloria Trillo and, well you keep your eyes peeled for the rest. Wish I could have seen cameos by Pesci and Pacino as possible gangsters and maybe Travolta in a small role. Would have made CopLand even better!! I hope for a sequel some day, films like this DO have an audience even if box office receipts are not of the "Matrix" level.
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Summary: One of my favourites.
Review: I watched this film on a plane, flying from Asunciòn to Bogotà , back in February 1998.
Stallone`s performance is excellent. You inevitably sympathize with this cop, and it always seems that has no way out of the dangerous situation.
It is a film you would like to keep in a personal collection.
I was happy to watch it again on my way back to Asunciòn.
Do not hesitate to try it.
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Summary: Copland Review
Review: Sylvester Stallone has been known for making his ... old action films; Rambo, for the most part. But in this exploration of dirty cops and the small-timer who can't get where he wants in life, Stallone plays a good, solid, dramatic role as Freddy Heflin, a small town New Jersey sheriff who looks across the river at the big apple, and what he wants most in life: to become NYPD. The big problem that arises is that in his small town, there are plenty of dirty New York cops who think they can slip by the slow sheriff, but Sylvester Stallone feels that something is happening from the start. This films shows Stallone's good acting skills.
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Summary: Maybe A Great Stallone Flick Once A Decade ...
Review: Sylvester Stallone returned to 'acting' in this stellar outing detailing big city corruption bleeding onto the 'burbs in COP LAND, a terrific ensemble piece backed up by such thespian heavyweights as Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. Rumor has it that Stallone put on a good forty pounds to play a small town Jersey cop trying to get out from under the weight of gangsterized police work, only to endure several personal risks along the way. A great little film that, in the hands of other talent, would've fallen flat. Look for great supporting roles for Annabel Sciorri (sp?) and Jeannine Garafalo (sp?).If Stallone only hits one out of the park once every ten years, I can live with that.
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Summary: A Thinking Person's Cop Film
Review: Since the mid-80s almost all movies have depended on various special effects (car crashes, shootouts) and heaping helpings of violence while scripts are geared towards someone with teenage comprehension. Not so here, Cop Land is a drama with the emphasis on personal interaction. This film also suffered from the fact that Stallone has had no career success playing anything other than an action hero. Stallone's character is carefully crafted, he is the nice guy who played by the rules and suffered because of it, with little career success and reduced to longing for an old flame saddled with a dysfuntional husband and a kid. This film makes one think, something very few major films take the risk of doing. Though Stallone gained some weight for his role, he is not fat and, along with the rest of the cast, does a fine job here. Michael Rapaport currently plays a somewhat goofy teacher on TV's "Boston Public." This is a film the cast members can be proud of in the future, highly recommended.
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Summary: ICEMAN'S COPLAND REVIEW
Review: This is one of the best police movies I have ever seen. It is very realistic and a down to earth cop movie. There aren't a bunch of crazy stunts or anything like that. It's just cops doing their jobs. Stallone is the man in this flick and I have seen this movie numerous times. If anyone is interested in police work or any type of cop film this is the one...
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Summary: Oscar-Worthy "Cop Land"
Review: "Cop Land" is truly an Oscar-worthy film and Sylvester Stallone should have been nominated for portraying a quiet, local town sheriff. After saving a young woman when he was a teenager, he damaged his left ear losing all hearing. So, in present day, he does his job sluggishly and is peaceful. But, one day, a city police officer killed some young men thinking they had a weapon. He was mistaken and disappeared without a trace. Corrupted city cops covered for him, but he slowly came out in the open. Freddie Heflin (Stallone) investigated the matter and took it into his own hands... I was deeply astounded by Stallone's performance and the cast. Harvey Keitel is always sneaky, Ray Liotta is a riot and Robert DeNiro is always the man. This is truly an epic film with powerhouse performances that all cop dramas should follow.
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Summary: Stallone's best movie since OSCAR
Review: Sylvester Stallone starts with one of the most solid casts he has ever shared a film with as a sheriff and NYPD wanna be who has to make the choice between his cushey job as head law officer in a town populated mainly by NYPD, and what's left of his self respect. A supporting cast full of A list starts and A list supporting characters deliver A list performances particularly Ray Liotta as an officer with his own past. The various sub plots as executed well and the finalie is a grand one. Stallone gets a lot of grief, some of it deserved for some of the campy roles he has played. Likewise he deserves a lot of credit for the great performance in this one. Well worth your money
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Summary: weak story, but love the stars
Review: Sylvester Stallone plays the fat sad sack of a sheriff of the fictitious town of Garrison, New Jersey. Essentially a bedroom community for NYPD officers who managed to end run regulations requiring that cops actually live in their city, Garrison seethes with the underworld corruption bred by crooked cops led by Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel). Stallone's sheriff Hefflin - overweight, deaf in one ear and not entirely spontaneous - was the perfect man to guard the "town full of cops" whom the script posits as at least mildly corrupt from the start of the film. (If you've heard the old line about foxes guarding the hen house, "Cop Land" has Stallone playing the opposite - the chicken keeping tabs on the foxes). Despite an intensive probe by IA Lt. Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) authorities haven't been able to stick anything to any one of the town's residents. A lucky break occurs when one the cops, Ray "Superboy" Babich (Michael Rappaport) is seen apparently committing suicide following a police shooting gone bad. (Hinting at the Diallo shooting which hadn't even happened yet, Babich takes a potshot at a car thinking its passengers are about to shoot at him. When the soon killed driver and passenger are found to possess, not a single gun, but at least one crutch, and responding EMS won't allow on-scene officers to plant incriminating guns on them, Babich panics and leaps off a bridge.) Saving and secreting Babich away to Garrison, Donlan and crew work to get Babich a new identity and a ticket out of NY. Hefflin, however, picks up on some obvious signs of the Babich conspiracy and, after being taken aside by Tilden (who visits Garrison during Babich's "funeral") decides to crack the conspiracy. "Cop Land" was a disappointing story - building up on intricate details that don't so much as beef up the main plot (about saving PO Babich) as reveal how thin it was and why it was so important to keep the audience distracted from it. The script tosses in Ray Liotta as Figgis, the only one of Garrison's corrupt cops that gets along with Hefflin (the rest of town merely tolerates him), though it's clear that Liotta is only around to say stuff about Heffin that script can't bring Hefflin to say about himself. (From Fig, we learn of Hefflin's dream to become a cop, a dream crushed when Hefflin went deaf in one ear; we also learn how Heflin lost his hearing when he pulled a beautiful woman (Annabella Sciorra) from a sunken car. Needless to say, Hefflin does not get the girl). The script gives Fig a nasty drug habit (imagine Liotta's coke-fueled haze from the last half-hour of "Goodfellas" and you'll get the idea) and some other dubious baggage, but none of that matters when Fig tells Hefflin what nobody else dares to say aloud. Because the characters promise so much it's painful when the film comes to a screeching halt - in a gunfight between a battered Hefflin and Donlan (when plans to "save" Babich become too complicated, and everybody realizes it would be easier if he just disappeared). De Niro's character is completely superfluous - there to pump Hefflin for action and also to slam him down when Heff doesn't move fast enough. The film doesn't even look like it's sure about when its set - witness the horrible hairstyle they give some of the leads. Still, despite the over-hyped storyline and the underused talent, you do feel like you've seen enough to remind you that it ain't easy being a cop.
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