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Rampart (2012)

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 9

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35

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 10,537

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Los Angeles, 1999 - Officer Dave Brown (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

May 15, 2012

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Where's it all go? Nowhere, really, just down a dirty, disappointing hole. Harrelson deserved better.

March 9, 2012 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (4)
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It's a remarkably compelling film.

March 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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Brown is a sick man, but Harrelson makes him so interesting, so charismatic, so ... watchable, that you can't look away, even if his actions make you want to (and they will).

March 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment (1)
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"Rampart" doesn't tell a coherent story as much as swirl the drain with Dave, as his increasingly desperate efforts to save himself simply result in a cascade of self-inflicted wounds.

February 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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This isn't your average out-of-control character, and Harrelson has to work against a narrowly defined screenplay that is short on specifics.

February 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Sure to provoke furious reactions in those unwilling to succumb to its mood of reckless abandon. But for those who can, this feverish slice of LA noir is set to be one of the purest cinematic pleasures of 2012.

February 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Rampart doesn't end up having as much emotional punch to it as The Messenger did, mainly because it feels as though the idea was not thought out to completion.

January 23, 2013 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered

What keeps the movie engaging for as long as it was is the amazing performance by two-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson.

September 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Comment (1)
Examiner.com

IN case you needed it, this unsettling cop drama is further proof that Woody Harrelson is one of the most underrated actors going round.

September 14, 2012 Full Review Source: The Standard

You get the impression that the film is as conflicted as its protagonist: trying to be both an arty character study and a dynamic drama at the same time but unable to excel at either.

September 13, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
TheShiznit.co.uk

A film saddled with a melodramatic script that would serve better as a TV pilot.

September 4, 2012 Full Review Source: NECN

No thrills, no secret plots, and no obvious politics, "Rampart" is a powerful and moving look into an empty person.

August 25, 2012 Full Review Source: CraveOnline
CraveOnline

This movie feels too undecided. The movie is so intent on not being "Training Day" that it just isn't "Training Day" enough.

August 5, 2012 Full Review Source: McClatchy-Tribune News Service
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Woody Harrelson is mesmerising as the anti-hero of gripping crime drama Rampart, but his pill-popping, booze-swigging, suspect-beating dirty cop, is so irredeemably unsympathetic that you almost wish he weren't so compelling to watch.

July 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

Loaded with poorly executed cop movie clichés

June 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Moviedex
Moviedex

Rampart asks a lot of its audience, and offers very little in return. Only Harrelson makes the ordeal worthwhile.

June 6, 2012 Full Review Source: Quickflix
Quickflix

Ultimately Rampart is Harrelson's showcase, and he takes full advantage of fleshing out a complex role.

June 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

When Steve Buscemi is playing a district attorney, you know you're in a moral quagmire.

May 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Rampart is a hypnotic, subjective, immersive experience into the deepest depths of a character that you love to hate. It's powerfully ambiguous filmmaking; and you need to see it.

April 26, 2012 Full Review Source: 2UE That Movie Show
2UE That Movie Show

The incendiary dialogue -- as much a performer's showcase as is a jazz instrumentalist's solo -- is signature Ellroy.

April 9, 2012 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

A nightmarish, hallucinatory film, bathed in raw neon colors and with style to spare, and with a blistering central performance by Woody Harrleson.

March 29, 2012 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Another bad cop on the road to ruin

March 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

Harrelson is riveting as a man without redeeming qualities or hope of redemption being driven to madness by personal demons.

March 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Harrelson scorches the earth.

March 12, 2012 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
East Bay Express

Rampart is more of a character study than any sort of crime procedural, and it's all the better for it.

March 9, 2012 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

The performances are uniformly excellent and the film looks great, thanks in no small part to the cinematography of Bobby Bukowski...

March 9, 2012 Full Review Source: Playback:stl
Playback:stl

Audience Reviews for Rampart

'Rampart'. A fine lesson in self-destruction that meandered too often between some nice uncomfortable moments.
December 30, 2012
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Another Bad Cop Movie played by no better actor then Woody Harrelso, don't think he had to act to hard to fit this role. Nothing outstanding here, really a dissapointment. 3 Stars 8-3-12
September 20, 2012
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    1. Catherine: David Douglas Brown, you are nothing but a misanthrope.
    – Submitted by Anthony C (7 months ago)
    1. Dave Brown: Your bun boy honked a Vice Cop at the Pink Parrot last night. He's got a Parole Hold so no bail. Lorazepam and Phenobarb and it all goes away.
    – Submitted by Michael D (8 months ago)
    1. Dave Brown: Up this time. [talking to pharmacist] And something to make it hard. [goofy smile]
    – Submitted by Michael D (8 months ago)
    1. Dave Brown: But while you're playing gum shoe, bear in mind that I am not a racist. Fact is, I have all people equally. And if it helps, I've slept with some of your people. you want to be mad at someone, try Edgar J. Hoover. He was a racist. Or the Founding Fathers, all slave owners. Me, I'm just doing my job.
    – Submitted by Dennis L (13 months ago)
    1. Dave Brown: You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen... in this bar.
    – Submitted by Chris P (16 months ago)
    1. Dave Brown: The fact is, I hate all people... equally.
    – Submitted by Chris P (16 months ago)

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