Cop Land
1997
****
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra
The fictional town of Garrison in New Jersey is inhabited predominantly by NYPD officers, some of whom are immersed in crime and corruption. The town's timid and gullible sheriff realises that he has been looking the other way for too long. James Mangold's testosterone-filled crime drama unfolds like a contemporary Western. The cast is superb, but Mangold's characters are painted with very broad strokes. Nevertheless, Sylvester Stallone gives an unusually understated performance as the sheriff.
