Rampart

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  • Opened February 10, 2012 (Limited LA, NY 2/10)
  • 1 hr 43 min
  • R | pervasive language, sexual content and some violence
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. More on child suitability

  • Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man? Full synopsis

  • Cast: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster
  • Director: Oren Moverman
  • Genres: Drama

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Fan Reviews

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Wait till DVD!

by DanesFandango

I wouldn't go see this in the theater and I would probably hesitate renting it later. The movie was not very good. I was disappointed and it had an all star cast which disappointed me even farther....

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Rampart - Good acting but little else

by sld007

Woody was great, as was Anne Heche, Ice Cube, etc. but the plot was nonexistent and the ending made no sense. Might of helped if I had dropped acid because who ever directed this film was most...

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Compelling Performance, Good Watch

by North Alabama

Woody Harrelson gives an outstanding performance of a dirty cop who has no regrets, until he has regrets, and, of course, it's too late. The story moves along, so it isn't boring, and the rest of...

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Critic Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Harrelson is an ideal actor for the role. Especially in tensely wound-up movies like this, he implies that he's looking at everything and then watching himself looking. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Oren Moverman's Rampart is a terrific film: tense, shocking, complex, mesmerizing. Read full review

88
Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

Yup, it could have been a bucket of bleak. But the electric talent of Harrelson and Moverman is too exciting to be anything but exhilarating. Read full review

80
Wall Street Journal
| John Anderson

With Mr. Harrelson, Mr. Moverman has created an antihero of epic proportions and indiscretions. Read full review

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Woody Harrelson in from "Rampart."