Before 'Indiana Jones,' James Mangold Made a Great '90s Crime Thriller
"Two kinds of people in this world, pinball people and video game people." Sylvester Stallone's Sheriff Freddy Heflin is the latter, at least according to Ray Liotta's morally conflicted Officer Garry "Figgsy" Figgis. Cop Land is one of the 1990s' most haunting cop thrillers in a decade littered with compelling examples.
And those others are played by actors who each bring their own unique brand of menace to the screen. From the darkly comic to the downright calculating, each and every character has their own unique story. Heflin suffers from an aural impairment as a result of saving a person from drowning as a youth. His chances of joining the NYPD were inhibited by the injury.
The film opens via aerial shots of New York City together with narration delivered by the unmistakable De Niro as Tilden. It's a richly atmospheric introduction to the world Mangold creates, and the use of muted lighting lends a dusky, brooding quality to the overall aesthetic central to some of the classics of the genre. At other times, the visual treatment offers a forlorn quality to sequences, apropos of the inherent sadness of its main character.
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