Storyline
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
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Cast
Method Man, Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Paul Calderon, Janeane Garofalo, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Peter Berg, Noah Emmerich, Robert Patrick, Frank Vincent, Tony Sirico, Arthur J. Nascarella, Michael Rapaport, John Doman, Cathy Moriarty, Annabella Sciorra, Debbie Harry, Edie Falco, Malik Yoba, John Spencer
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Reviews
90
The New York Times
Everywhere the camera turns in this tense and volatile drama, it finds enough interest for a truckload of conventional Hollywood fare. Whatever its limitations, Cop Land has talent to burn.
80
The A.V. Club
Cop Land emerges as a first-rate morality play in the form of an effective, if occasionally unwieldy, crime drama.
80
Chicago Reader
The movie's no roller-coaster ride, but there isn't a boring moment either.
75
ReelViews
While this is probably the actor's best turn since Rocky, and he does a credible job that may earn him the opportunity to do more "serious" work in the future, Stallone's performance is outshone on all sides. That's not a knock against him; it's an acknowledgment that the supporting cast is about the best that it can be.
75
Branching out in a bold new direction, Stallone is quietly devastating. James Mangold has directed Cop Land from his own ardent, audacious script, and despite some draggy, overdeliberate moments, it's the strongest piece of material to come Stallone's way since he invented himself as Rocky 21 years ago.
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