Sly actually acts in a motion picture.
Twenty years ago Stallone won a Best Picture Oscar for Rocky. If push comes to shove, the man can act. And given the number of action-porno flicks that Stallone has done lately, it's good to see he has recovered old talents.
Cop Land is essentially a Western. The whole town is corrupt and controlled by the Dalton gang and it's up to the sheriff to clean up the town. Keitel, the ringleader of the Daltons, uh, NYC crooked cop brigade, is of course out to see it not happen.
It's satisfying to attend a movie which has an actual plot. And characters that you can empathize or boo at. Plus it's a tad complicated, so my god, you actually have to pay attention in order to discern just what is going on. Given the number of brain-dead explosion fests in the theater during the summer, that's fine with me.
The ending is a little too neat in pulling the plot threads together. Plus it teeters on turning into a Sheriff Rambo flick, but Cop Land falls back on the Good Movie side.
So all in all, this is a motion picture. And it's nice to know that there are still American moviemakers capable of pulling such an uncommon stunt. A movie worth seeing.
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