I saw clips of this film when it was reviewed on a television programme, and I assumed it was going to be a cop going against the law he is meant to be a part of and doing evil, it was hardly that at all, but nevertheless I gave it a chance. Basically, set in 1999, in Los Angeles police officer David Douglas Brown (Woody Harrelson) works as part of the Rampart Division, and he has a lot of bad habits, being racist, bigoted, misogynist, egotistical, brutally violent and womanising, but he defends himself saying that he has equal hatred for all people who have accused him for his behaviour. He has been nicknamed "Date Rape Dave" because he managed to get away with the murder of a suspected serial date rapist; this is the most notorious of his actions. Dave does want to keep what family he has, specifically his two daughters Helen (Brie Larson) and Margaret (Sammy Boyarsky) mothered by the two ex-wives he lives with, sisters Barbara (Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon) and Catherine (Anne Heche), and he still maintains a sexual relationship with both of them. He actions gain attention however when he is caught on camera brutally beating a person who came out of a car crash that hit his police vehicle and the police department is put under the microscope as well because of the Rampart scandal. Then there is the discovery of a scandal Dave is involved with where he present or helped with a grocery store holdup, and all these things found out he shows no sign of remorse, but he has to figure out how these things are coming out and protect what he has, but in the end Dave cannot escape it. Also starring Ben Foster as General Terry, Ice Cube as Kyle Timkins, Sigourney Weaver as Joan Confrey, Robin Wright as Linda Fentress, Steve Buscemi as Bill Blago, Jon Bernthal as Dan Morone and Ned Beatty as Hartshorn. Harrelson I suppose gives a performance worth watching in parts, and the well-known stars in amongst the cast do their parts fine, I will be honest that I was disappointed that it wasn't what I hoped it would be, about a bad cop getting with murder or whatever, but I suppose some of it was interesting enough, it's an alright crime drama. Good, in my opinion!