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Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) punches rookie cop Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) and gets locked up. Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler) drives into a parked police cruiser and gets locked up. Both men are where they want to be. This has plenty of gun action and some thrills. It's nothing new. It's fun and forgettable. Actually, the section I like the most is the quiet moments in the barricaded jail cells with our three main characters. This one is never going to be that great. I knew that with Valerie pointing her gun at Bob. She's way too close which is only used to artificially intensify the situation. There's a lot that in this one. It can be fun.

Not only we have this tiny 5' 2" woman doing impossible "cop" things, but apparently she's also a medical doctor that knows how to operate on human necks and fixing dislocated jaws. She also has amazingly poor trigger discipline along with shooting "warning" shots straight into the air in a crowded place. Yea, that's what cops do on a regular basis. The police department of a little, irrelevant desert town in the middle of nowhere in Nevada apparently has a state of the art facility the size of a large corporate center in the middle of a major metropolitan area. Who even wrote this?? Not to mention an absurd over representation of minorities in an otherwise a typical 99.9% white town. Is this woke fiction? Shame that people like Butler and Grillo decided to be a part of this horrendous production. Money must be tight.

Absolute PC rubbish from start to finish with the silliest stupidest ending in recent movie history, the lady police officer takes more punishment than a team of rugby players but does not let that stop her, bullet in the stomach, just keeps on, falls 20feet to the floor WITH the stomach wound but keeps on trucking, takes two shotgun blasts to the torso which even with body armour would have put her in Hospital for a week, not her Oh no, it was like Wily Coyote cartoon, I kept expecting an anvil with ACME written on it to fall on her. Then walks out of the police station and hijacks the ambulance that is taking her to hospital, Gerard Butler must need the money to appear in utter crap like this.

The bad: I know one when I see one, an inferior, cheaply made movie that simply is NOT credible, NOT thrilling whatsoever at any time and it aint even funny either. I like Gerard Butler for his many action movies, but this one is a stinker. Simply boring...

. . . major surgery on myself and others" COULD be the title of this revisionist action film. However, its ACTUAL heading is listed as COPSHOP (which sounds like some sort of illegal car scavenging business). This flick is chock full of lovable characters, suggesting many spin-off opportunities (were it not for the fact that all but two of them meet with violent deaths by the end credits). Hopefully, the sequel will generously expand the COPSHOP universe (starting with Val's yet-to-be-seen spouse).

Copshop: We've had sieges of police stations before but his film has some original angles. Teddy (Frank Grillo) punches cop Alexis (Valerie Young) to get himself arrested, he fleeing from hitmen. But one of the killers, Bob (Gerald Butler) feigns drunkenness to end up in the same lock-up. An interesting station, comedians, slackers even a corrupt cop. Actually corrupt cops are everywhere in this film. Things get even more interesting for Teddy, Bob and Alexis as a rival hitman, Anthony (Toby Huss) arrives at the copshop, Anthony is truly psychotic, carrying a Bugs Bunny Balloon and sounding like Foghorn Leghorn. An internal siege develops with cells, narrow passages and an open pln squad roo becoming the battleground. Some savage violence and indiscriminate killing though this is leavened by by a streak of dark humour throughout Copshop. The tension is maintained and the film has a touch of early Tarantino about it, especially the dialogue. An intriguing thriller. Directed/Co-Written by Joe Carnahan. 8/10.