Internal Affairs
1990 Directed by Mike Figgis
Synopsis
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
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While waiting for some discs in the mail, I thought this would be a good fill in for my Michael Mann Marathon. I could see him directing this movie. This is one the best cop movies in my opinion.
This is obviously a movie about the corruption that can exist within a police force. "Cops are better than other people, we have to be better than the cops". What I love is how the film opens with police officers fixing a crime scene, but a crime scene that is never part of the film again. This is a great way to show the audience what the police are capable of so that for the rest of the film there is…
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i can totally believe that gere and garcia hated each other. their antagonistic chemistry is the best thing about this movie.
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While waiting for some discs in the mail, I thought this would be a good fill in for my Michael Mann Marathon. I could see him directing this movie. This is one the best cop movies in my opinion.
This is obviously a movie about the corruption that can exist within a police force. "Cops are better than other people, we have to be better than the cops". What I love is how the film opens with police officers fixing a crime scene, but a crime scene that is never part of the film again. This is a great way to show the audience what the police are capable of so that for the rest of the film there is…
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If I were a cop, I'd be like Richard Gere's Dennis Peck, except I'd use contraception.
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LA neo-noir with Richard Gere as a plotting corrupt cop and Andy Garcia as the IA officer investigating him. Slow burn film with some very good moments.
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Fairly standard cop thriller benefits from a decent performance by Richard Gere as a dirty cop who deals drugs, kills his partners after banging their wives, and other sundry things that I assume are frowned upon even in the LAPD. Full of usual genre contrivances (Garcia coincidentally arrives at a house thirty seconds after Gere has killed a couple), but holds the attention nonetheless. Director Mike Figgis directs with restraint despite yet another reference to anal sex, and even supplies an atmospheric score. Personal favourites Nancy Travis and Annabella Sciorra provide the eye candy.
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Richard Gere is so good in this movie and I think that I like him better when he is breaking bad rather than being this nice noble guy. Andy Garcia is really as well as the IA officer who is being pushed and there is this whole cat and mouse game going on. I feel that the plot is not as good as the film could be and is lacking some with the main plot being Gere/bad and Garcia/good. It is not really selling me with that main concet, but it was an enjoyable film.
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Finally got round to seeing this 90's mystery thriller. Perhaps I've seen too many of its imitators as there's nothing surprising here, but it gets by on brooding stylishness alone. Garcia and Gere are bloody good too.
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Richard Gere gives the standout performance playing against type as the charasmatic but amoral Dennis Peck in this dated police corruption thriller.
Andy Garcia gives good support as Raymond Avilla the Internal Affairs officer trying to unravel the layers of corruption. One of the main problems I had was the casting of William Baldwin as Van Stretch the rookie partner under Pecks control. There is a scene where Peck slaps Van Stretch around to keep him in line, I know I felt like doing the same to Baldwin after sitting through his over the top histrionics.
On reflection this was probably quite a good edgy thriller in its day, but now looks and feels dated and to be honest I'd lost interest by the end. -
Internal Affairs
Mike Figgis
CIn which Andy Garcia tries to bust Richard Gere before he sleeps w/ every woman in LA. Oh, the 90's.
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