Richard Gere,
Andy Garcia,
Nancy Travis,
Laurie Metcalf,
William Baldwin
... see more 
In this glossy L.A. crime drama by Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as Sgt. Raymond Avila, a cop who just joined the Internal Affairs division of the L.A.P.D. An investigation into police corruption has... read more
DVD Release Date: March 9, 1999
Get It:
Stats: 247 reviews
Your Rating
Flixster Reviews (247)
-
May 29, 2010Internal Affairs is a nasty little suspense thriller!!!and it was hard to see Richard Gere playing such an evil person..
-
June 29, 2008Ahhh, the infamous Internal Affairs. The 1990's, with bad hair, fashion and shameless sex.
XD!!
Well, it is a classic in my opinion. Two of the coolest actors in my opinion of their time, Gere and Garcia, play off against each other in this cop drama which is actually pretty go... read more -
January 10, 2008This film is so brutal, sexually charged thriller. The unrelenting tension mounts as the pursuit of justice becomes a very personal vendetta.
-
May 10, 2007This cop thriller revolving around corrupt officer Richard Gere was lauded over at the time, but Gere is badly miscast at the borderline psychotic peeler and basically sleepwalks through the movie. Garcia is better, but the whole thing reeks of contrived melodrama and is frankly ... read more
-
May 18, 2011Richard Gere is fantastic and Andy Garcia showed depth I didn't think he had. An excellent first two acts, followed by a weaker and messy last act. Still, a very good thriller overall, with Michael Mann-esque direction.
-
-
April 20, 2012Very much a thriller of it's time that still works because of the tension the movie builds up as the two leads engage you with their performances.
While I wasn't happy with the last half hour, the first half to 3/4rds of it I enjoyed watching. The story is fairly straight-forwar... read more -
June 28, 2008The whole time I was watching this movie, all I could think of was how much better it would be if Jack Nicholson was playing the Richard Gere role.
-
February 13, 2008Good suspense thriller. Shows Gere in a bad guy roll which is disturbing for fans who only look at the fantasy of Richard. It shows his wonderful ablitiy to lead in any roll. Just watch him!
-
April 1, 2007Richard Gere is the embodiment of evil. A better devil than Al Pacino played in The Devil's Advocate. Why is it that Andy Garcia seems at his best when his character is getting played like a fiddle (see also: The Untouchables, Ocean's Eleven, Darkness Falls on Manhattan)?
Critic Reviews
March 29, 2009
TIME Magazine
April 9, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety
Figgis never lets the pace slow long enough to expose the story's thinness despite, in retrospect, a moderate amount of action. Full Review
April 9, 2008
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Internal Affairs delivers what it promises, and perhaps a little more. There's less action but more menace, and the pulse quickens as the plot drives relentlessly toward a conclusion that, in retrospe... Full Review
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Internal Affairs is, for the dim movie season that is traditionally January, an unusually bright light. Full Review
June 6, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
[A] cliched catchall, which wastes a fine cast.
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Those with strange axes to grind, or too much time, or demented senses of humor, and you know who you are, may just have a fun time of this. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Figgis gives his dolled-up universe a high-voltage hum. And at the center of it, Gere is an extraordinarily vivid monster -- the devil as fashion plate. Full Review
April 9, 2008
Angie Errigo, Empire Magazine
A lurid, lightweight throw-together of cheap psycho-thrills which tries to dress itself up as something more substantial. Full Review
April 9, 2008
Film4
The conflict between Gere and Garcia is what carries the movie; deep beneath the macho brutality there's an almost homoerotic tint to their relationship. It makes for compelling stuff. Full Review
April 9, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Yet another goofy credit in Gere's already overloaded resume of embarrassment -- although some may consider this one of those movies that's so silly it's good. Full Review
View more
Internal Affairs
reviews
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
