Crown Vic

I loved this movie. Contrary to what the critics have said, I found it mesmerizing. The kind of movie you can't look away from. Left me wanting more.

Very Underrated movie, go watch it

If you like cop movies, this one will do. It's about a grizzled LAPD vet (Thomas Jane) who is tasked with training a rookie (Luke Kleintank) who is on his first night on patrol. You're probably thinking "Training Day" knockoff, and you wouldn't be far from the truth. Yet, even though this film can't be considered original, it manages to hold its own. Jane is especially good. And we get to see Bridget Moynihan, whom we mostly think of as Erin Reagan, the straight, law and order ADA from TV's "Blue Bloods," playing a scabrous, foul mouthed junkie. She overacts, of course. "Crown Vic" may not have anything new to offer, but it fulfills the genre expectations.

So much of it is typical, and regurgitated similar previous movies. And the production and casting decisions were just terrible, you don't believe anyone, including the great Thomas Jane, for who they're portraying. Some of the writing is just dumb too. But, the climax, although not that climactic, was some fun making it a tad worthy of the watch, just barely.

Great cop movie. Very entertaining!

Nick Holland (Luke Kleintank) is a newly minted officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. In his first night shift, he is assigned to patrol the city with experienced policeman Ray Mandel (Thomas Jane). Ray and Nick are completely different personalities; while Nick is a down-to-earth, self-proclaimed world improver, Ray is a divorced pessimist with a penchant for breaking the rules and resorting to violence. In their shift, they are responsible for all kinds of incidents, from robberies to domestic unrest to car fires. They also try to find a girl who has been kidnapped by a group of drug traffickers, and at the same time, they chase two terroristic bank robbers wanted for murdering policemen... Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus reads, "Led by a solid turn from the well-cast Thomas Jane, Crown Vic gets an impressive amount of mileage out of its familiar cop thriller framework." Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded the film 1.5 stars out of four, commenting, "Aside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer." Movie Nation's Roger Moore gave the film two stars out of four, stating "Crown Vic is a grounded and gritty cops-on-the-night-shift melodrama built around a tightly coiled turn by Thomas Jane... Crown Vic isn't a bad picture. It's just too unexceptional to stand out." Rex Reed of Observer Media gave the film two stars out of four and said, "I never cease to wonder how some films manage to borrow, imitate, copy, or steal from older films without acknowledging or crediting the originals. A predictable, ho-hum police procedural called Crown Vic, about one night of violence and death with a veteran Los Angeles cop assigned to escort a rookie cop through the criminal underground while teaching him the ropes, is so close to the 2001 Training Day that it's practically a remake." Dennis Harvey of Variety noted, "That's a lot of narrative content, and Crown Vic varies in involvement and credibility as it juggles the more melodramatic aspects with the quasi-vérité ones. Still, it all works more often than not, thanks to the able lead performances and Souza's generally smooth handling." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated, "The filmmaker displays a genuine flair for staging exciting action sequences, and the ever-reliable Jane delivers a solid lead performance, here tempering his natural machismo with a sympathetic, mournful quality. But there's just too much about Crown Vic that we haven't seen a thousand times before, to more impactful effect." We have seen this sort of film many times before, like "Colors", "End of Watch", "Training Day" etc. Movie Nation's Roger Moore stated "Crown Vic isn't a bad picture. It's just too unexceptional to stand out." which is my opinion as well. It´s well made, the acting ok, but "Crown Vic" is simply nothing new under the rainbow.

Crown Vic (Protect and Serve) '19 – Curious but Rough Ride If you're looking for a movie to convince you not to be an American policeman this is it. Unrelentingly downbeat all the way, this cynical ultra vicious movie continually goes for the worst in humanity - from a manic rogue cop (easily the worst possible example) to the drug destroyed wife of an ex-cop, to a little girl being held from her family for untold purposes, and rampaging cop killers, shooting up any that come their way, etc, etc, (all in a nights work) While it may give us a look into the dregs of society – it wallows in its negativity, failing to offer its audience any glimmer of hope (no wonder they stayed away) Performances are all good and the contrast between the young rookie and grizzled vet works most of the time but with an unrelenting barrage of hopelessness - wrapped up in a script by writer/director (Joel Souza) who, unfortunately, seems incapable of stringing sentences together without every other word being a vulgarity. While so-called ‘trendy' Hollywood types might speak like this it also assures it becomes tiresome for many others. At least it has a pounding, moody soundtrack. In the seventies, films like ‘The New Centurions' served this theme with some reasonable justice, and even though times have certainly changed, can it truly be as blatantly radical as we are being bludgeoned with here.

Gritty, gripping......just could not stop watching. I was surprised as I really enjoyed it.

I worked closely with law enforcement and this movie was one of the more realistic. It takes special people to work this thankless job.

This was absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen! Baldwin I know hates the LAPD. I can't understand how they would let him put such trash on film!!!