| Rampart Jun 3rd 2012, 21:29 by on Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 | Comments Off Rating: Amazon Price: $2.99 (as of June 3, 2012 9:32 pm – Details). Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on the Amazon site at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product. Product Details - Synopsis: Set in the 1990′s when scandal rocked the LAPD's Rampart division, the film follows fictional cop Dave Brown, played by two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson, a man who has taken the "no guts, no glory" American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear.
- Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty
- Supporting actors: Sigourney Weaver, Robert Wisdom, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Anne Heche, Jon Bernthal, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon
- Directed by: Oren Moverman
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Release year: 2012
- Studio: Lightstream Pictures
- MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content and some violence
- ASIN: B008053RF2 (Rental) and B007D93HM4 (Purchase)
Customer Reviews Gritty cop drama… the utter loneliness of it all March 3, 2012 By Paul Allaer "Rampart" (105 min.) brings the story of Dave Brown, an LA cop going off the tracks, played by Woody Harrelson in an outstanding perfomance. In the beginning of the movie, Brown tries to keep his personal life together, as complicated as it is with 2 kids he has from 2 women who happen to be sisters, and they are all living together. At a certain point, Brown gets involved in a car accident (accidental? set up?) and after the other driver tries to get away, he beats the driver exessively and just happens to get caught on tape. Things get worse from there, and I don't want to give away much more from the plot, but suffice to say, Brown gets more and more isolated, even as he meets other women in his life. The whole movie is pretty much downbeat, and exposes the utter loniless of the Woody Harrelson character, leading eventually towards the open-ended conclusion of the movie. The first hour was sorta long in the build-up, but the last 45 min. really shine. This movie has an incredible all-star cast besides Harrelson, with juice performances from Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche, and Ice Cube. But special mention in my book goes to Brie Larson in the role of Harrelson's troubled teenage daughter. In all, quite a movie, although certainly not for everyone. Still, "Rampart" is highly recommended! A man fading May 20, 2012 By J from NY Oren Moverman's film "Rampart" is misunderstood, it seems. Most films (and shows) about the Rampart incident, or those that indirectly show it's influence Training Day, The Shield: Complete Series are chalk full of action and only give the viewer a retrospective after a million bullets and tons of action. This is a character study. Officer David Douglas Brown works for the LAPD and probably has for some time delivering his own brand of street justice to those who he finds particularly amoral or repugnant. His fellow officers nickname him "Date Rape" as a result of his decision to execute a serial rapist. This kind of action hero behavior is not without an avalanche of consequences which Dave prefers to ignore. Robin Penn Wright is fantastically understated in her role as a defense attorney who wants to serve Dave up for doing this. She feels a distant compassion for this "dinosaur", as his daughter calls him, but it isn't enough to stop her from pursuing justice. Dave is a complicated man. He has two wives who are sisters (…yep) and imagines that despite the heat coming down on him after the brutal beating of a black guy who cut him off in traffic, the family can stay together. The world has already ended for this guy, that's the problem. He meets with the truly disgusting Ned Beatty, a higher up in the LAPD and a mysterious character, and it turns out that even an older dinosaur no longer cares all that much. Sigourney Weaver is the therapist for officers on the job and it's her character that really provides the viewer with a moment of clarity. Nothing Dave has done has helped anybody; his heroic, tough guy brand of justice has just made everything worse for his family, his department, and the people he may have been trying to help. (Or does he just get off on it?) Ice Cube stars for a about half an hour as a prosecutor who refuses Dave's last attempt at atonement. In the end what we have is a man out of time, out of space and slowly fading. This is a brilliant movie and I'm not sure why it's garnered so much negative attention. Part "Dirty Harry" part "Training Day". Not a bad movie at all but nothing really original either. Worth seeing though. I say B+ April 18, 2012 By Tony Heck "I was under attack, I went after the suspect. End of story." Dave Brown (Harrelson) is an LAPD officer that who does things his own way. After he is caught on tape brutally beating someone after they hit his car his career is in jeopardy. While trying to defend himself against the charge an old alleged crime of his comes back up. This is a really good movie. The big problem is that it is again nothing really original. He acts the way "Dirty Harry" acts but has the morals of Denzel Washington in "Training Day". The movie has an all-star cast and the acting is fantastic. Harrelson especially is great in this in a very layered performance. He covers everything in this role; brutality, being a smart-ass, father in a very dysfunctional family as well as womanizer. This is a great role for him and the movie is very much worth watching. Again, though the only problem is that it seems like this movie has been done to death. Overall, nothing new but still good. I recommend this. I give it a B+.  | |
