Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly
Ends up about as exotic as a straight-to-cable potboiler.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
The script recycles clichés that go back to 1937'S "Dead End," the performances are one-note, and the whole thing has the flat, bright look of a TV cop show.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Excels at suspense and atmosphere, despite the garden-variety plot and an unintentionally hilarious - credit sequence .
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Main lure is what feels like a very authentic visual sense of the nontourist side of Kingston, where the ambience of zinc-walled shacks wallpapered with old newspapers is captured by cinematographer Richard Lannaman.
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| 38 |
New York Post
The acting, camera work and writing are all crude and amateurish, even by the standards of student films.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Tina Benitez
Cop is an energetic portrayal of mean-street ghetto life.
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Austin Chronicle
A hackneyed police story, rife with clichés, implausibilities, and weak performances.
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| 20 |
Film.com
It's little more than a loose assemblage of Hollywood action movie formulas: "Dirty Harry" and assorted cop/buddy flicks are the clear models for the movie.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Shot in smeary video, it sports the static, by-the-book camera work of a daytime soap-opera.
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