Corrupt

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Corrupt or Copkiller is a unique film that has a good cast which includes Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, Sylvia Sidney, and Carla Romanelli. The acting by all of these actors is very good. Keitel is really excellent in this film. I thought that he performed good. John Lydon was also very good. The thrills is really good and some of it is surprising. The movie is filmed very differently. The music is good by Ennio Morricone. The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end. This is a very odd but good film. If you like Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Sylvia Sidney, Nicole Garcia, the rest of the cast in the film, Thrillers, and interesting Action films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!

This is a fairly routine cop thriller filmed in Europe with Keitel in an early "bad lieutenant" role. The film really gets interesting once Johnny Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, enters the scenario. Playing a spoiled punk sociopath, his cat and mouse with Keitel is enjoyable. Makes one wonder why lydon squanders his acting talents.

This is a great subtext movie. There's the surface thriller elements and then there's Harvey Keitel's rough-play with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten. The pair play out the master/slave dynamic with nasty commitment. Its not merely S&M however, its positively psychopathic in a nasty but sickly playful sense. Its a dark little vision of police power abused and quite probably all too real for some viewers and protestors out there who realise the strong arm of the law isn't disembodied from the bodies of individual policeman despite political rhetoric to the contrary. But hey, this isn't all that serious a movie. Keitel is great, Lydon is a vicious victim and it all goes by relatively quickly. John Lydon is worth the price of admission/rental/purchase alone. Enjoyably twisted.

Thought this was going to be your typical cop killer film and it completely surprised me as there was cop killing going on, but the film dealt mainly with Lt. Fred O'Connor, ( Harvey Keitel) and his strange behavior. Fred would work in the narcotics department and then after work he went to a very expensive apartment dwelling which he co owned with his partner who was a cop also. Fred also had his regular apartment in the city. One day a young guy named Leo Smith, (John Lydon) approaches Fred and tells him he is the cop killer which Fred does not believe and he does everything he can to get rid of this young man, who is very creepy and sickly looking. There are many twists and turns in this film which will keep you guessing just how it will end and just who is the so-called cop killer. Enjoy.

Offbeat weirdo Leo Smith (John Lydon) creeps his way into corrupt cop Fred O'Connor's (Harvey Kettle's) head to play mind games. John Lydon's lack of acting skills actually helps to make his character even kookier than he was probably written. And there's for sure a weird chemistry between Lydon and Keitel. Fred O'Connor is on the edge. Is Smith a psycho? Eventually one snaps. It's a good, off-kilter psychological thriller.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS CONTAINED HEREIN. A nice little giallo, not a classic, but an enjoyable watch. Here we have the ultimate odd couple with Keitel and Lydon. Their interactions are very enjoyable to watch. Lydon is defiant and smiling in the face of Keitel's daddy-like abuse. I got the feeling that Keitel really hated Lydon and I can't help but wonder what went on behind the scenes of this movie. I can easily imagine Keitel getting irritated at Lydon, a non-actor, acting like a primadonna behind the scenes. This is just my fantasy, but I feel it's highly probable. The plot is pretty standard, save for the homoerotic S&M elements. It's definitely worth seeing, but don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Harvey Keitel and John Lydon go head-to-head as cop and prole in a film-long mutual torture session, and ooooh, they aren't really so different after all. It's an ancient shtick, and the production (filmed in NYC) is Italian cheese, and the jaunty c & w theme song with the sliding cadence is not only totally incongruous, it won't get out of my OR Siue's damned head two weeks later. But you know you want to see Keitel and Lydon going at it; I've already forgotten all about the love interest shenanigans and the chase scenes and Keitel murdering his partner, but I will never forget those two geniuses sneering off in that empty apartment. And Sylvia Sidney plays Lydon's grandma! These people know their audience.

'Cop Killer' (aka) 'Order of Death' (1983) is a truly gritty and intense poliziotto with the singular concept of pairing Harvey Keitel and the preternaturally irritating ex-Pistol, John Lydon, whose blithely bilious persona is put to good use as the morally bankrupt psycho killer. This terse, claustrophobic oddity is enlivened considerably by another quality theme by Ennio Morricone, and the effortlessly brooding and intense Keitel is always worth a fun watch. While 'Cop Killer' is a somewhat flawed exercise, it nonetheless remains a worthy entry in the by-then waning poliziotto movie cycle; and the sweaty interrogation sequences between Keitel and Lydon still make for compulsive viewing. With modest expectations 'Cop Killer' is unlikely to disappoint, and should rate highly with obsessive Euro crime, cult movie fanatics alike.