Copshop

Oct 27, 2022

Last night I saw the movie "Copshop" since the trailer caught my attention and I downloaded it from the internet. It is one of those films that honestly reproduce the essence of the violent thriller of the seventies. Its ingredients? Let's see… A couple of gunslingers whose pulses quicken and their chests swell. A con artist with big plans and is deeply mistaken. A police station that turns into a lunatic asylum twenty-four hours a day. And a heroine with a temper of steel, who every time she receives a bullet dodges another.

The assassin game is full of very aggressive and also charming characters. Frank Grillo plays this high-flying con man, who is also the embodiment of duplicity and ambiguity. Gerald Butler is a hitman with peripheral vision superior to that of the rest of the mortals. Toby Huss embodies a psychopath who almost looks like a cartoon. And Alexis Louder gives life to a brave police officer whose true resume we will get to know throughout the plot.

Director Joe Carnahan gets a lot out of the shoestring budget. Although there are some exteriors ‒with gunfights and chases, of course‒, most of the footage takes place in a police precinct. Above all, in their offices and in the opposite cells that Butler and Grillo occupy.

The pacing is fast-paced, and Carnahan and Kurt McLeod's script is full of witty retorts and gratifying back-and-forth. Everything is narrated without deviating from the direct style, without arrhythmias, and with good skill. At a certain point, there is a clear sense of chaos ‒anything goes‒, but that does not stop the fun. Rather the opposite happens.

On the other hand, the director turns a closed space into a crime theme park. There is no lack of references. Without going any further, the Hawksian Assault on the 13th Precinct Police Station (1976), by John Carpenter.

Although it's a mid-range movie, Assassin's Creed has a personality and attitude that many other action films lack. This is a feature film made to distract you. To enjoy. To evoke that cinema of the seventies and eighties in which a large gun was an important detail in the script.

Synopsis

A small-town police station becomes the battleground between a professional hitman (Gerard Butler), a smart rookie cop (Alexis Louder), and a con artist (Frank Grillo), who seek refuge behind bars with no clue. another place to run.

This claustrophobic action thriller is the first collaboration between Butler and Carnahan, who define the film as a neo-feminist '70s western with little noir. Butler's interest in Game of Assassins dates back to 2015 when he first read early drafts of the script, which involves a game of cat-and-mouse hunting between a con man and a hired killer who has been sent to finish him off.

Rounding out the cast are Frank Grillo (White Hell, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) playing Teddy Murretto, a con man in mortal danger, and Alexis Louder (Tomorrow's War, Watchmen), the rookie cop with an insatiable thirst for justice.

Do not hesitate to look for it and watch the movie, you will have a fun time.

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