Directed by: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss
Movie with a slow and boring beginning and a horrible, totally uninventive end.
Don’t watch it. You don’t need it.
It’s a cheap production, you will even see that 5 different small production companies are behind the production of this film. Wasted money.
All action is located in a remote police station somewhere in the deserts of Nevada. It could have been filmed in any suburban house’s basement.
It’s a standoff drama with a bit of action. A mob fixer and contract killers are locked in police station cells. Another contract killer is coming from outside leaving a massacre of police staff in the station, all but one female police officer. She is in between two cells- the one of the fixer and another the contract killer. She is badly wounded and bleeding heavily. The only hope is to unlock one of the two evils. Dilemma: who is the rotten bastard who is gonna do less damage?
What else is horrible in this movie is casting. All actors and characters are a total miss match. The worst of all is the second contract killer. The name of the character is Anthony Lamb. If he didn’t have a gun you would think this must be a senior citizen from the local community club or clown from the nearest small city circus.
When you see a movie like “Copshop,” you ask yourself: are all those executive producers throwing money for something like this, for real? Are they in their right minds when they make a decision to invest in a screenplay like this one? Don’t they have anywhere else to get rid of their money? Give it to charity, buy some property, gamble it away in a casino… better than to producing a visual catastrophe like “Copshop.”
If this is, as somebody said: “one of the best action movies of the year”, than-forget this year. Don’t expect any good action in 2021.
And one more thing: these amateurs should be given a lifetime ban in the movie production business.
If you are not in the industry, you better don’t be there. Ever.
