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\"\"Copshop <\/strong>(2021)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Road\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 108 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong\/bloody violence, pervasive language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joe Carnahan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Kurt McLeod and Joe Carnahan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Clinton Shorter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Juan Miguel Azpiroz\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: September 17, 2021 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss, Christopher Michael Holley, Ryan O\u2019Nan, Kaiwi Lyman, Robert Walker Branchaud, Marshall Cook, Marco Morales, Tracey Bonner, Keith Jardine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $5.2M (US)\/$6.8M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0It won\u2019t be long before the yearly invasion of prestigious Oscar-bait films begins. From then until January, we\u2019ll be seeing a lot of serious-minded movies vying for recognition by the Academy\u2019s voting board. While I\u2019m always glad to see quality films, there\u2019s a part of me that still hasn\u2019t developed beyond teenage Movie Guy, the high school\/community college dude who never missed a violent actioner starring any of my idols from that time- e.g. Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bronson and Norris.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Although those days are long gone, I still love a good dumb action flick with lots of violence and mayhem. That\u2019s an apt description of Copshop<\/strong>, a movie that fools you by starting off somewhat low-key before shifting into action overdrive with all bloody hell breaking loose at a police station in a sleepy Nevada town. It starts when criminal on the run Teddy (Grillo, The Purge: Anarchy) punches police officer Valerie (Louder, The Tomorrow War) at the scene of a drunken wedding fight in a casino parking lot. He does it to get himself thrown in jail. It\u2019s the only place he\u2019s safe from all the people trying to kill him or so he thinks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Not long after his arrest, a couple of state troopers bring in a drunk driver who nearly ran them over. Of course, that turns out not to be the case. He\u2019s really Bob Viddick (Butler, Law Abiding Citizen), a hitman hired to rub out Teddy. Why does somebody want him dead? It has to do with stolen money or maybe his peripheral involvement with the murder of a state attorney. You see, Teddy is a fixer, a guy who gets people together, usually for shady business of some sort. None of that really matters though; it\u2019s merely an excuse for the carnage about to follow.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For a while, we watch as Teddy and Viddick threaten each other from their separate cells while Valerie tries to figure out what\u2019s going on with them. Then the wild card enters the game. He\u2019s Anthony Lamb (Huss, Bad Milo), a friendly psycho killer posing as a party balloon delivery man. He proceeds to shoot every cop in sight in order to get to Teddy. That\u2019s not all. There\u2019s a corrupt cop in the mix too. He was trying to smuggle drugs out of the station when he got sidelined by Viddick\u2019s failed first attempt at killing Teddy. From here on in, Copshop<\/strong> is total mayhem with everybody trying to kill everybody else.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Joe Carnahan (Smokin\u2019 Aces), Copshop<\/strong> is a nifty throwback to 70s\/80s era action movies, the original Assault on Precinct 13 in particular. It has some choice vintage cuts on the soundtrack like \u201cFreddie\u2019s Dead\u201d (from Super Fly) and the Magnum Force theme. The opening theme sounds like it was composed by Ennio Morricone for a spaghetti western. The characters aren\u2019t developed beyond a superficial level. Teddy has a family we never meet. Valerie has a thing for old school guns as evidenced by the antique revolver she carries. Her boss is a grouchy sort who bellows loud enough to be heard to the other end of town. The dirty cop is a fat, lazy, incompetent idiot. That\u2019s all you really need to know about these people. Copshop<\/strong> isn\u2019t about character or plot; it\u2019s all about action and boy, does it deliver!<\/p>\n

\u00a0As far as the acting goes, it\u2019s pretty much what you\u2019d expect. Grillo and Butler stare, growl and posture as rival criminals. The question is which one Valerie should trust when her life is on the line. Speaking of her, I do believe I\u2019ve witnessed the birth of a new action heroine. Louder more than holds her own against the two established action movie vets. Huss is a hoot as the ironically named Lamb. He neither comes in nor goes out as one. His character is a freaking maniac!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The action scenes in Copshop<\/strong> are thrilling and well executed. The body count is high and there\u2019s a fair amount of splatter. The bullets spent number in the triple digits. In other words, it does exactly what an action movie is supposed to do. Okay, so the story is a bit of a mess, but so what? Like I said, plot isn\u2019t a primary concern in this instance. Copshop<\/strong> delivers the goods by giving fans what they want without a lot of extra baggage. It\u2019s fun and entertaining, an ideal Saturday matinee picture.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copshop (2021)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Road\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 108 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong\/bloody violence, pervasive language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joe Carnahan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Kurt McLeod and Joe Carnahan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Clinton Shorter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Juan Miguel Azpiroz\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: September 17, 2021 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss, Christopher Michael Holley, Ryan O\u2019Nan, Kaiwi Lyman, Robert Walker Branchaud, Marshall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kick-ass-actioners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Copshop-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9337,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/9337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}