The Popcorn Critic-Copland

Medium Popcorn

Copland has the most impressive cast I've seen in a while. Some of the best Hollywood has is represented here. I only wish the finished product could have lived up to its players. After a good beginning, the story inches along for the next 90 minutes until you realize this is the big scene. And then, hopefully you didn't blink, because it's over as fast as it began. The story is about a bunch of New York cops who have bent the rules and found a way to live outside of the city, so they take up residence in a small New Jersey town across the river. But bending rules in order to change their address isn't the only questionable thing these cops are doing. Tampering with evidence, ties to the mob, and plain old murder are also a few of their activities. Quite a stretch from his normal roles, Sylvester Stallone plays the cautious and defensive town sheriff who decides that there is nothing he can do to change their ways. Harvey Keitel plays Ray Donlan, kind of the leader of these cops and friend of sheriff Freddy Heflin. Rounding out this superb cast are Ray Liotta, as Figgsy, the cop who's ways are changed when the tables are turned on him, Robert DeNiro as Moe Tilden, the Internal Affairs officer investigating these cops, Michael Rappaport, Peter Berg, of "Chicago Hope", Janeane Garoflalo, and Robert Patrick in his best role since Terminator 2. If the plot had been half as interesting as the characters in it, Copland would have lived up to all the hype it got.

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