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Rampart
Rampart

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Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver
Feb 10, 2012
R, 1 hr. 47 min.

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Cast: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Bernthal, Stella Schnabel
Director: Oren Moverman
Rated: R
Running Time: 1 hr. 47 min.
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
Theater Release: Feb 10, 2012
DVD Release: May 15, 2012
Synopsis: Los Angeles, 1999 - Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. -- (C) Official Site

Critic Reviews

  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    Where's it all go? Nowhere, really, just down a dirty, disappointing hole. Harrelson deserved better.
  • Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
    Brown is a sick man, but Harrelson makes him so interesting, so charismatic, so ... watchable, that you can't look away, even if his actions make you want to (and they will).
  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
    "Rampart" doesn't tell a coherent story as much as swirl the drain with Dave, as his increasingly desperate efforts to save himself simply result in a cascade of self-inflicted wounds.
  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star
    This isn't your average out-of-control character, and Harrelson has to work against a narrowly defined screenplay that is short on specifics.
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
    Director Oren Moverman understands that Woody Harrelson is a real actor and makes movies to prove it.
  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe
    Something to see and little to remember, an acrid character study undone by narrative implausibilities and its own lack of purpose.
  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
    "Rampart" patrols some familiar streets, but this jarringly intimate study of a dirty Los Angeles cop sliding, crazily, down the drain has a distinctive new-cliche smell, pungent and alive.
  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
    Harrelson is an ideal actor for the role. Especially in tensely wound-up movies like this, he implies that he's looking at everything and then watching himself looking.
  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
    He insists on "keeping the family together" with the same irrational devotion he applies to his job.
  • Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
    Hallucinatory, elliptical, with dialogue as rich as chocolate cake, this is the self-proclaimed Demon Dog of American crime fiction at his fevered best.
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