Cop Land
Idealistic Internal Affairs officer Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) and Freddy Heflin (Sylvester Stallone), sheriff of the suburban New Jersey town populated by New York City policemen slowly discover the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.
5 November 1956, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
5 July 1963, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
20 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 March 1960, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
5 August 1962, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
September 13, 2012
Top acting honors go to Ray Liotta as Gary Figgis, a cokehead cop who just might be Freddy's only friend.
April 09, 2008
A good effort, but the star power on show throws the proceedings off kilter somewhat, hiking up an expectation that the film ultimately cannot live up to.
April 09, 2008
Mangold is something of a pseudo-Scorsese.
April 09, 2008
It sizzles toward an explosive and satisfying climax in which everything -- Stallone included -- fully bursts into life.
April 09, 2008
Although too simplistic in its good-guys/bad-guys approach to morally and emotionally ambiguous material, Cop Land emerges as an absorbing and dramatic yarn about exposing the evil doings of some of New York's finest.
April 09, 2008
Cop Land shares its leading man's slow-wittedness, but also his likability.
April 09, 2008
A solidly entertaining drama that stays true to the independent spirit of its filmmakers
April 09, 2008
It's pretty funny, actually, that Stallone gained 40 pounds to play this role, and what the movie needs more than anything else is to eat a salad and do some sit-ups.
August 15, 2012
not your traditional action flick, nor your traditional cop flick. It has elements of each, all wrapped up in a new type of story that drips in realism and gray characters.
July 30, 2007
At times, it's like three episodes of NYPD Blue jammed together and whittled down to feature length.
April 09, 2008
Mangold certainly knew what he was doing when he cast Keitel and De Niro.
April 09, 2008
A low-key tale of corrupt cops that recalls the gritty police procedurals of the 70s.
