CROWN VIC takes us on one memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone. As the night wears on, Mandel finds himself in a desperate race against the clock t... (Full plot summary below)
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CROWN VIC takes us on one memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone. As the night wears on, Mandel finds himself in a desperate race against the clock to find a missing girl as he and Holland prowl the dangerous streets of LA in their police car, protected by only a few thin sheets of metal and glass.
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| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFor all its familiar elements, Crown Vic is a well-made and strongly acted effort showing real talent on the part of its writer-director. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurraySouza and his cast explore a familiar milieu, and though they fall short of saying anything startlingly insightful about it, they do a fine job of making it feel real, and even vital. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyA respectable if non-revelatory cruise through a familiar terrain of mean streets and men in blue. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreCrown Vic isn’t a bad picture. It’s just too unexceptional to stand out. |
| ObserverRex ReedYou can’t fault the actors, who play the sadism for tough, two-fisted realism, but Crown Vic (a title that makes no sense; there’s nobody named Vic in it) is still a cheap copy of Training Day and a crash course in lock-jawed cynicism 101. Not to mention the worst P.R. the city of Los Angeles has had since the Rodney King scandal. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer. |
| The New York TimesDevika GirishSouza’s feature plays like an amalgam of the tropes of numerous TV and movie police procedurals. |
| User ReviewAWESOM-0Thomas Jane was made for this role. This movie captures a lot of the stuff I assume is associated with being a cop. Well acted and directed. |
| User ReviewQgal5kapIt was not bad at all. Pretty decent performance from the two mains. A decent watch on any average weekday. |
| User ReviewnetflicThe name of the movie refers to a car Ford Crown Victoria, famous for police patrolling. So, the movie is about one night of LAPD patrol crew. The idea is far from being new. There are many stereotypes in the script: it's a veteran policeman plus a rookie, and it's his first patrol shift. Actually, there are almost all possible stereotypes there except two. One being they did not eat donuts (but that maybe because donut places were closed at night). Two: unlike in the majority of Hollywood films, police were not trigger-happy. I don't want to waste your time listing those which *were* in the movie. There were so many co-incidents for one night that the script looked highly improbable to me. Performances were decent but nothing breath-taking. Overall, the movie was not bad, quite watchable as a piece of entertainment. Do not expect to be wow'ed. |
