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Copland [1997]
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STALLONE FLEXES HIS ACTING MUSCLES - KILLS CAREER!
Review date: 2008-02-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
Copland is a great film. It has aged beautifully and is without doubt up there with the first Rocky outing as Stallone's best movie to date. In the process of gaining weight and really flexing his acting muscles as the shambling, deaf and washed up police cheif of Copland, the former Italian Stallion quite literally 'killed' his career. The film bombed at the cinema but found it's natural home on video/dvd.
It's definately worth a second look. Sly more than holds his own in the heavyweight company of DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta. His everyman reluctant hero holds the film together and reminds you what a prodigy he once once.
It's an exciting, violent and well constructed movie that has aged a lot better than it's star.
Next up was Spy Kids 3 (urgh) Rocky Balboa (not bad) and Rambo 4 (blood n guts) !
cw
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Stallone in a good movie?? .... whatever next?
Review date: 2008-01-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
I cant believe it, Stallone is in a great movie. This only happens once every 10 years or so but this is it. The previous was ...... First Blood I think (not the appaulling Rambo sequels but the original First Blood alone).
This is an excellent crime drama with the greatest living acting Robert DeNero playing a faily small role. Ray Liotta is excellent, Harvey Cartel is perfect and Stallone himself puts in a fantastic performance in the leading role. Ive always critised Stallone as being a bit of an ego-maniac, but there are no signs of that here. He's even dedicated enough in this movie to allow himself to get out of shape to make the character real. Thus, his performance is believable and gives me reason to remember that despite all those shoddy Hollywood movies he's made; that at times he can be a great actor.
Copland has a place on my shelf
Review date: 2007-06-24 Rating: 8 out of 10
Every time I hear people saying that Sylvester Stallone can't act, I'm inclined to want to believe them. I think it's the dead sounding voice of his, that thick accent that he's never worked to get rid of. However, there are two movies of his where he is at the top of his game. In action films, he's the same, whether the hero or the villain. However, in comedy he is great in "Oscar" and in drama he is fantastic in "Cop Land." Filled with a cast full of high profile actors and yet a bomb at the box office for reasons unknown to me, this movie only suffers from a touch of melodrama.
Written and directed by James Mangold (Heavy), Cop Land is set in Garrison, New Jersey, just over the George Washington Bridge from New York City. Garrison is populated by the NYPD's most questionable, with the powerful, mob-bought Ray Donlan (Keitel) as its unofficial mayor. Among Ray's minions are his main henchman Jack Rucker (Robert Patrick) and the coke-fried Gary "Figs" Figgis (Liotta), who was brought into the inner circle after his partner died in an incident that brought Internal Affairs sniffing around. Watching over Ray's little slice of paradise is Sheriff Freddy Heflin (Stallone), a wannabe cop who was kept from the big-city force by a bum ear. With a badge that is little more than a vanity plate, Freddy's main duty is turning a blind eye to the shady dealings of Garrison's most prominent citizens. When Murray "Superboy" Babbitch (Michael Rapaport) kills two joyrides in what he thinks is self-defense but isn't, his compatriots first clumsily attempt to save his job by performing a quick-and-dirty plant, but that quickly goes wrong and in a deft move, Lieutenant Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel), uncle, spirits him away in a phony suicide. But this does little to defuse the powder keg, and as Internal Affairs agent Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) moves in on Garrison but admits that the town is beyond his jurisdiction in the strictest sense, Freddy is forced to make a series of decisions that lead him to admit to himself, finally, that something is seriously wrong with this unsupervised town and that as sheriff, he's the one who's been falling down on that supervisor's job while facing a hard decision with his precinct.
While Cop Land is nothing too astounding, it is a good, solid drama, with a climactic scene that's worth the admission alone. The extra pounds Stallone put on serve him well for this part. In his past roles, his physique, along with his droopy-lidded, thick-tongued manner, has made him untouchably macho. With that taken away, Stallone is vulnerable. He stoops over his gut and walks uncomfortably -- a nice take for a character who's spent his life being pushed around. No matter how many shots of him staring dreamily over at New York or how many shots of him blanking out to a stuck-in-a-rut Bruce Springsteen song, it's the way in which he moves that nails this part for him. And while this role is being set forth as proof that Stallone is a serious actor, and has also maintained this in "Rocky Balboa."
Directors Cut spoils a good film
Review date: 2006-10-29 Rating: 6 out of 10
Cop Land is an excellent modern Western. With great performances from the all-star cast. The original cut of the film had a great pace about it which was unfortunetly lost in this plodding directors cut. The ominous, brooding pace of the original made the ending of the film all the more satisfying. I would recommend buying the original cut of Cop Land as fans of the film may be disappointed with this version.
stallone is immense here as is the movie
Review date: 2006-09-15 Rating: 10 out of 10
Released in 1997 to little success the film has grown in stature through its release on dvd and what i must say is that this is a masterpiece,possibly ranking alongside stallones performance in rocky and rocky 2 in particular,his other films although mainly good never demanded a performance of grandeur,here stallone is magic.
The film also has what could be deemed an all star cast in harvey keitel,robert de niro and ray liotta who all come second fiddle in terms of acting to stallone,thats true whether you accept it or not.
Stallone plays freddy who is a small time cop in a town which is a haven to cops who work in the city,so it is clear that stallone doesnt have alot to do except maybe taking cats down from trees,but when deception,murder and corruption visit the town stallone has choices to make with regards to the cops who aint as clean as they make out.
The movie is intense and fast paced and certainly dramatic but equally enjoyable and uncomplicated but its certainly much more than a standard action movie,priceless.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Ray Liotta
Harvey Keitel
Sylvester Stallone
Robert De Niro
Janeane Garofalo
Creators:
Sylvester Stallone (Primary Contributor)
Robert De Niro (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
EAN: 8717418048846
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Director's Cut, PAL,
Release date: 2005-06-27
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 111 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1997
Language: English (Original Language)