Rampart Reviews and Ratings


  • geoffmovieman321
    May 28, 2012
    geoffmovieman321
    Oh, Rampart. Well, let's get this out of the way: Woody Harrelson is amazing. He continually surprises me in the depth he brings to otherwise ordinary roles, but I think he deserved a better film. It's not a bad film exactly, but one that leaves you wondering why it existed at... read more all. It tells half a story and bows out early, which I'm fine with if it serves the story, but here it feels like a TV show cancelled before its time. I don't really think the ambiguous indie ending fits here other than as a trope or simple laziness, and as sad as this character portrait is, is there any sort of depth to this shitty guy we spend 2 hours with? I'm not sure. Perhaps I'm wrong. If it missed it, enlighten me. Otherwise, Rampart has some powerful moments and a great performance and not much else.
  • fb1149881440
    May 28, 2012
    fb1149881440
    This movie sucked what a waste of a redbox rental...at least it was cheap
  • fb516999713
    May 27, 2012
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    Woody Harrelson gives one of his best performances in this film about a damaged cop trying to undo what has forever stained his relationship with his daughters.
  • allan913
    May 26, 2012
    allan913
    A memerizing, vivid, tense and utterly shocking piece of film. A compelling, complex and terrific movie. A triumph, it`s a pure knockout of a thriller that will have you engaged till the very last frame. An unforgettable and breakingtaking picture with a career defining perfroman... read morece from Harrelson. Woodly Harrelson gives commanding and powerful performance, a real tour de force. He plays the most corrupt cop you have ever seen on the screem and gives it his all. Harrelson give his most Oscar worthy work ever. Director, Oren Moverman crafts an intense, stylish and utterly hard-boiled portrait. The all-star cast deliver huge in this film no matter how small the roles are. It`s more realistic, intense and compelling than Training Day. One of the most eye-opening police drama`s ever made.
  • fb1211880945
    May 20, 2012
    fb1211880945
    So very disappointed in this one. Expected another great "LA Dirty Cop" film to put along side all the other great "LA Dirty Cop" flicks like Training Day, Dark Blue, or Colors just to name a few but instead you get a whole lot of nothing. Matter of fact Woody Harrelson character... read more isn't all that horribly bad when you compare him to the other dirty cops in film history. To call him the most corrupt cop you've ever seen on screen might be the most blatantly understated fact I've ever heard in my life as far as movies go. Just a big waste of talent in this one....
  • fb1017355736
    May 17, 2012
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    Woody Harrelson plays an interesting role here, also there's nice bits in here by Sigourney Weaver and Ice Cube, the story isn't quite so compelling but it's not boring either. This could have been better.
  • JHeafitz
    May 17, 2012
    JHeafitz
    Once again Woody Harelson shows he has dramatic chops but unfortunately in this movie the stellar supporting cast seems wasted. The ending is left purposely ambiguous and the script is a convoluted mess.
  • ForrestBlump
    May 17, 2012
    ForrestBlump
    Good performence of Woody and Robin Wright , you expect some action to happen , but it don't really comes .
  • fb100002946249850
    May 16, 2012
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    RAMPART is the kind of film that loves its hero too much. 'Dave Brown', a senior LAPD officer and a confirmed racist who has two daughters who are half sisters, is stomping in and out of every single frame of this film. He is a human being who is really wrong and knows it too. He... read more is corrupt like his establishment. He has a family life, which for him is perishable like the several women he wakes up with, face down on pillows every time, in hotels around the city. He is caught beating up a black man on camera. He is sinking in debt. His wives want to scoot from his make shift arrangement that makes him their next door neighbor. He cooks up a shoot out and swindles off with the cash involved. An investigation is ordered and maybe this time around, he looks cornered for a change. We are never told what's the end of this.

    Like I said, James Ellroy, acclaimed crime writer and Oren Moverman (Director - The Messenger) are too much in love with 'Dave' that any kind of redemption and closure would spoil the fun for them. Instead they fill up 'Dave' with minor inconsistencies. He is a racist who licks the toe of a black woman whom he sleeps with. He smokes in front of his children but gets up the sofa and shifts from shorts to Pajamas when his kid daughter sits next to him. He kills a man who is a date rapist, cause he has daughters and don't want a man like that to be alive. But it clearly looks like he just killed him and cooked up this tale later to make it sound like a justification.
    'Dave' at the end of the day is a sack of lies and inconsistencies who doesn't give a shit about how its sagging his bellicose self. We know that a hole has been drilled somewhere in his sack and its started to spill. What will happen to him is for later. A new novel from James Ellroy? Maybe.
  • nick482128
    May 16, 2012
    nick482128
    rampart was absolutely horrible. the movie so monotone all the way threw.

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