Officer Down is
not all that—it lacks in everything but stupidity. I want to express my sincere
displeasure about this movie; the acting felt like something I’d see in a
preschool play where the kids are struggling to concentrate. With actors like
Stephen Dorff (Blade), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), and David Boreanaz (Bones),
I expected better. The movie plays with your mind a little, testing your
patience, as if the director is wondering how long it will take before the
audience realizes that everything they’ve been watching for the last hour is
leading nowhere.
They kept
dragging out the story of how a corrupt cop went straight, and after a while, I
just gave up and almost X-ed out the movie as one of those I didn’t finish or
write about—until I stumbled on the twist in the plot that caught my attention.
The movie’s
twist was actually very good, but the execution was so poor that it was hard to
believe they could mess up something promising. Believe me, they did. The
flashbacks were excessive and muddled the story. The cinematography wasn’t half
bad, but the delays before anything made sense were frustrating. The movie
claims to have a director, but to me, it felt like a bunch of guys doing
whatever they liked on screen while loosely following a script. James Woods
would have been better off not being in the movie because his inclusion felt
like a damp rag in the corner that had started to stink.
The movie is,
sadly, about a crooked cop named Det. David Callahan (Stephen Dorff), who got
mixed up in drugs and had a turnaround after facing a life-changing experience.
But his past wasn’t done with him yet—it came back with a vengeance, leading
him to make more mistakes and almost getting him killed. (That’s as succinct a
summary as one could make from this hour-and-a-half waste of my time.)
I regret the
moments I spent watching this movie and truly wish I had never heard about it,
let alone seen it. It’s one thing for a movie to be full of junk while trying
to make the audience marvel at an unbelievable twist, but it’s another thing
for a movie like this—full of junk—to bury what could have been a good twist
under all the mess.
Take my word for it, this is one crappy movie and the worst I’ve seen this year—and the year is just beginning. I doubt anything worse could come out this January.
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