PFS Member Sneak Preview: RAMPART

Submitted by jbrach on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:33pm

By Le Anne Lindsay

On Thursday February 16th PFS members got to see a preview screening of a new police drama starring Woody Harrelson, which actually is the second movie he's made with director Oren Moverman and actor Ben Foster, the first being 2009's The Messenger. In truth, Rampart isn't a crime drama or police exposé, it's a character study of a man who is both extremely articulate and seductive and at the same time, ridiculous and immoral. In many ways we learn most about this character which Harrelson brings expertly to life, through his relationships with his family of women, and a recent sexual affair with a lady lawyer, than we do from his identity as a cop.

I feel this film is a great vehicle for Woody Harrelson, but in thinking back on his career, he's been a pretty versatile actor. Would you put him in a class with Sean Penn and Denzel Washington?

Before watching Rampart did you know about the Rampart Division scandals?

Were you hoping this movie would have more action and have a heavier crime story plot?

Le Anne Lindsay is a PFS Blog contributor. For more of her work, visit Tinsel & Tine.

As gritty as it tried to be,

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:45pm.

As gritty as it tried to be, it was even more disjointed. I really didn't care for Woody Harrelson's performance even though that seemed to be the selling point for this film.

I agree, gritty. Harrelson's

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:50pm.

I agree, gritty. Harrelson's performance was extraordinary as he was on screen the entire time, but in the end he was so self destructive you hardly cared about him, or any one else in his orbit.

I found myself wondering more

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 5:23pm.

I found myself wondering more about the women in this film, all of whom seemed to possess intelligence and insight, certainly wise enough in street sense and otherwise,to see Harrelson's character's unsteady brutality. What could possibly attract them to this man other than the cliche of the bad boy. The stark reality of Harrelson's character's ugly existence-you would not call it a life-does leave you not caring what happens to him or his cadre of women. Harrelson himself plays a role he seems to have become comfortable with, as I seem to recall some other recent roles with characters who left you feeling no remorse for their fate.

A complicated film on many

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:08pm.

A complicated film on many levels it ultimately felt pointless. The camera work alternated between effective and distracting. Over all it was unclear that this film new what it was about, thematically

Gratuitous violence and sex,

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 6:23pm.

Gratuitous violence and sex, not to mention the excessive cigarette smoking. How did accomplished performers such as Ned Beatty appear in such trash. Not impressed by Woody Harrelson-Sean Penn was much better in a similar film about the LAPD

I liked it. It wasn't

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 7:38pm.

I liked it. It wasn't pretty, warm or fuzzy. More like reality, as there are a lot of f*(&ed up people out there and there are a lot of people who fall for them.

A few more movies like this

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 8:42pm.

A few more movies like this and the LAPD might get a bad reputation. Woody Harrelson’s character, Dave Brown, instantly dislikable yet, by the end, a bit pitiable, is the unclean cop in a film that starts out seeming something like Training Day. As Brown, nicknamed “date rape,” but not for the reason you think, instructs his own trainee on the ways of controlling “wetbacks” and other riff raff, she asks if he isn’t afraid of getting a “128” (sanction for misbehavior). “Illegal is just a sick bird,” he replies. But the recruit moves on, and the Brown’s misconduct catches up the modern way, by being caught on video. Arrogant charm is enough to get a lawyer (Robin Wright) into his bed, but seems less likely to win over Internal Affairs. A retired cop buddy (Ned Beatty) may not do it either. And his two exes—sisters—and two daughters (one by each sister) are losing patience with him. (The high school-age daughter, especially.)

Unlike most cop films, this is very much a character study, not an action thriller. The director is Oren Moverman, who previously directed Harrelson in The Messenger, but the low-key realism, and no doubt much of the gritty, witty dialogue comes partly by way of cowriter James Ellroy. Ellroy wrote the book on corrupt Los Angeles cops, several in fact; one was L.A. Confidential. (Rampart is an L.A. police involved in a real misconduct scandal in the late 1990s, but this story is narrowly focused.) Wisely, the movie doesn’t drift into obvious moralizing like Training Day. There’s no Ethan Hawke character to serve as audience surrogate. Brown’s family serves some of the same function, but mostly this is about a man who has lived by his own rules slowly coming to grips with the cost. By the end, the point has been reiterated to the point of near redundancy. Still, Moverman is not heavy handed, and the movie stops before depicting an ending that is by then, broadly obvious.

I thought Woody Harellson's

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 9:49pm.

I thought Woody Harellson's acting really brought the menace of the character to life-- made me think of Jack Nicolson. The lack of any positives kept me from really enjoying the film. I am unfamiliar with the Rampart scandal. His family seemed dangerously unafraid of his explosive temper. The ending was too abrupt.

I agree that this was a great

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 3:12pm.

I agree that this was a great vehicle for Woody Harrelson, and I think he's a very good actor, though I don't quite see him at the same level as Denzel Washington or Sean Penn. I would compare him more to Nic Cage, and this movie did bring to mind "Leaving Las Vegas" just a bit.

I was not familiar with the Rampart Division scandals. I did not feel a need for more action or a heavier crime story plot. Accepting this film on its own terms, as a serious downer of a character portrait that led me in a different direction than I'd expected, I'd have to call this a very satisfying moviegoing experience. It could very well end up being one of my favorite films of 2012.

I loved the ending.

I went to this screening with

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 6:42pm.

I went to this screening with a close friend, whose comments echoed my thoughts: the film seemed to be an exercise in art for art's sake. Neither of us thought that anything was really resolved, which essentially left us feeling confused. The film has definitely not stayed with me. Woody's performance was very, very good, but many of the other excellent cast members seemed to be somewhat wasted, as they had little to do and/or they were onscreen so briefly. Still, as others have noted, the casting of Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon was inspired. I was a big fan of Moverman's last film, "The Messenger". It was in my top 5 of that year. This film feels like a big letdown after that.

Using a bazaar shared goal,

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Using a bazaar shared goal, (bringing salmon to the desert) as a spine for an otherwise dull boy meets girl- looses girl -gets girl plot line, I thought that Salmon Fishing in Yemen was lightly amusing dribble peppered with a few funny lines. On the whole, it left me wishing it had been stocked with deeper plot lines and a more engaging set of characters, instead of salmon. It was not a bad movie, but too much of it seemed contrived. Judging from the boisterous guffaws emanating almost non-stop from the folks seated directly behind me, often coming during moments of the film where there was nothing the least bit clever or humorous, I wondered if someone had surgically removed my sense of humor, or if they were planted there by CBS films to make the movie seem more like the romantic comedy that it was not. If you take away the "salmon in the dessert" device, the film has nothing to offer. The introduction of an assassination plot was an empty and contrived attempt to make a dull film less dull. But the film was certainly a feel good movie, and fun to watch thanks in no small part to Emily Blunt's performance and absolute cuteness.

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Woody Harrelson is really

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 5:59am.

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