Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Robert J. Maxwell It doesn't sound too promising -- Woody Harrelson as a veteran of the LAPD who once shot a date rapist and now, years later, seems to be scapegoated by the division because of an unfolding scandal. Somebody has to go and Internal Affairs is out to see that somebody does.It sounds like another LAPD shoot-'em-up with a bloodbath every ten minutes but it's not. No shots have been fired, and no explosions have occurred. There's not even a high speed pursuit by cars, planes, boats, trains, or bicycles.Instead Harrelson, in a very nicely textured performance, his head stylishly shaved bald, is presented as a tough and embittered cop whose social life is a fetid swamp of pathos. He appears to have two wives (or girl friends or sisters) or maybe three. Each makes an occasional appearance in his life but he screws up the bond one way or another.One of the ways is that he extorts over-the-counter leapers and sleepers from a pharmacist. Another way is that he seems to sip from a pint of booze as he drives around the city alone in his black-and-white. He makes absurd demands of people and when they don't play his game he becomes furious.All of the performances are good, particularly those whose relationship with Harrelson is ambivalent, and who find themselves trapped in an approach/avoidance conflict.But Harrelson, hung over, sweaty, falling down drunk, could probably carry the film by himself.He's given a great deal of help by the director Oren Moverman who lends the images a slightly arty effect, sometimes a little too arty. Woody drives in despair through the night and the camera gives us a nice close up of his ear, silhouetted by the headlights of the cars behind him. Oh, yes -- his left ear. But at other time he trusts the viewer enough to figure out what's happening off screen. The location shooting is fine too, capturing the shimmering heat of Los Angeles' streets, the sunshine and smog.There is no redemption at the end, either, and I kind of liked that. It's a good evocation of despair. The screenplay originated with James Ellroy, whose values you may or may not like. I don't. He's said in interviews that the police should be given free rein on the streets and not interfered with by the suits. His sympathies probably lay with this Dirty Harry character rather than with the division's attempt to clean itself up.

elgabote This movie is one of those for when you're in the mood to spend some time to understand what the director wanted to show and give it an after thought. It's slow paced, with a lot of creative photography content. It gets the spectator into the everyday of the character (that by the way, it's really good portrayed by Harrelson) and his twisted life. Is not an action or straight forward movie, is more a character development movie, and doesn't explain or show explicitly everything that is or will happen, just gives you the clues (that are many) to figure it out. Regarding of the open ending (I have read that many didn't like), if you think about what happened along the movie, you know what happens with the characters in the end, it's just adding up everything is been coming.Good photography, average story, good writing, very good acting. Worths the watch, again, if you're in the mood.

jackasstrange Rampart may have good intentions, but fails at executing it.In the start, as we can see, it tries to show us the life of a corrupt cop and also tries to somehow makes the viewer to sympathize with the dirty man. Well, it don't works. It's impossible to care about the protagonist. He is just a creepy, despicable nobody manipulated by the system, a loser which later shows in the film that also has a very generic personality, despite being a hot-head kind of guy. Impossible to care about a character like that. But fine. The film develops a overused and mildly interesting premise in the start. But then, in the middle of it's running time, the film totally loses it's focus creating yet another conflict, a situation apparently worse(by worse i mean uninteresting) than the first presented in the beginning. And the film keeps creating these 'sub-plots' until it suddenly ends. Yes. The film ends without any explanation of anything. Horrible.But yeah, the performances were quite good, Harrelson did a good job as the protagonist, but his character just didn't affected me at all. I didn't felt involved with him at all, and 80% of the things he did in the film were totally uninteresting and almost without any connection with the 'main premise'.And the stylized editing looked like a fail attempt to mask the uninteresting events in the film. It was meaningless. Remove the edition and you can barely stand this film.Anyways, it may be watchable, if you are really interested in losing 100 minutes of your day. 5.0/10

doug_park2001 Well-acted and well-filmed, "Rampart" is an interesting character study of a corrupt scumbag cop. Its strongest point is that Brown (Harrelson)is far from being a totally stereotypical scumbag cop. I really enjoyed hating him at the beginning, and never exactly came to like him, but this film truly shows how Brown means well, or at least thinks he does, and allows the audience to empathize and maybe even sympathize with him enough to keep "Rampart" from being totally forgettable.Otherwise, I concur with many of the other reviews here. Despite a compelling opening scene, the so-called plot of this film meanders and is very unfulfilling. It might have worked better if Brown had not been placed in semi-suspension from the police force so early in the film and we could see him in action a little more before all the politics and soap operas begin.