Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Roger Baldwin At first, this show is entertaining, and the behavior of some of the suspects is fascinating. But after a while, you come to see that everything is presented in black-and-white: There are no bad cops, and the suspects are inborn fools or just plain evil. As the show presents itself as a documentary or "reality," this one-sidedness is irritating and takes credibility away from the producers. Hundreds of episodes and I doubt there has been a single incident of abuse or graft, yet they try to present Cops as spontaneous and natural. Police can be "bad boys," too, and trying to disguise this makes this show more propaganda than reality.

fearfulofspiders COPS is a pretty good show, that can go from boring to exciting between commercial breaks. The vast majority of episode descriptions deal with domestic disputes, which unless there's a brawl or chase, can make the next nine-minutes drag-by. The drug busts and stings are far more tense to watch than the prostitution stings, and it's mainly the newer episodes that are grittier -- even though there's times in the earlier seasons where we actually follow detectives solving a murder, break-in, etc. which makes for a very entertaining 30-minutes.All in all, there's only a select type of episode worth watching, and that's mainly when danger is involved -- if the cop is just talking, talking, talking, it makes for a tedious segment. I highly recommend anyone that intends on watching this show either know the episode description, or if there's just nothing else on.

luktan There's no doubt that COPS is the best (ever!) TV reality program.It's been around for years, and will be around for many more years to come.Forget the hype. Forget the staged drama and props- this is the real thing.If you've been hiding under a rock and have no clue what this program is about- a TV crew does "ride-alongs" with the Police from all around the USA. It give us a first person view of a day (or night!) in the life a cop.It has been interesting to see the changes in the type of events they're being called to- I'd guess that almost 99% are in some way, shape or form are related to drugs. The offenders have either just used, just purchased, just sold or have in their possession or in their car, something to do with drugs! Amazing to see how common their use is....Great program and hope to see it for years to come. :)

brightfamouscucumber Cops is weekend prime-time 30-minute action-packed "reality" TV show, where cameramen ride along with on-duty police officers, purportedly showing real-live incidents as they occur while the police officers are on duty.Unlike other law-enforcement-biased "reality" shows, such as "Real Stories of the Highay Patrol", COPS restricts any and all commentary to the video-recorded events of the same duty-shift. At least as far as I have seen, except when COPS combines episodes with other "reality" based law-enforcement shows, each segment starts with a police officer driving along in his car, or meeting with other law-enforcement officers, making general comments about their perception of law-enforcement, or saying something specific, to set up the upcoming action scenes.Then it shows some scenes of the ride-along officers encountering the public in response to form of complaint, and sometimes it shows the resolution of those complaints.It is completely unscripted, and off the cuff.It often shows actual disturbances, violence, bloodshed, and actual death.It often shows police brutality and officers defaming the character of the people they encounter.It often shows people in the process of committing a crime.It also, often shows police officers in the process of committing crimes.But it never shows the crime-committing cops being handcuffed.This is a dangerously biased show.It is a show depicting that COPS can do no wrong.It does state at the beginning of each episode that "all suspects are considered innocent until proved guilty in a court of law", but it's always some other bad guys, not the criminals of a badge-bearing kind, who get cuffed and stuffed, and in some cases, brutalized. And it is quite clear that the vast majority of the badge-bearers consider the suspects guilty.And it's edited to be this way.It's edited to appear to be some sort of "good versus evil", but it is not. It is nothing short of evil vs. evil, and sometimes its the perp who's more evil, and other times it's the badge-bearer. But it's always the badge-bearer whose opinions get final input on each and every segment, and usually a very rude bash of the people they were hired to protect and serve.It is sick and it it is twisted, and it is in a time spot known to be predominantly viewed by adolescents.On a scale of one-to-ten for entertainment value, I would quite honestly and with great justification give it a negative ninety-nine.The worst nightly news show in a third-world country would receive a greater rating from me than this atrocious filth.