Credit James Elroy and Oren Moverman for writing this movie about an LAPD officer than delivers justice...his way. David Brown(Woody Harrelson)lives hard, loves hard and works even harder; although he appears to really enjoy making his own rules to be held up to. RAMPART is about dysfunctional relationships, morals that are in doubt and harsh misdirection. The LAPD's Rampart Division is being looked at real hard for having the street rep of cops taking care of business a bit too rough and not exactly straight and fair. When dirty cop Brown is caught on video beating the daylights out of a citizen, he becomes front and center of a corruption scandal. Brown believes he is just trying to take care of an unusual living arrangement; in actuality he is arrogant, brutal, ruthless and sometimes just inhuman. Acting and casting are top notch. Harrelson is outstanding. Others in the cast of note: Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Steve Buscemi and Sigourney Weaver.
Review of Rampart
