Movies: Rampart Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller Los Angeles,
1999 - Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a
Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty
work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the
lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state
of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds
himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the
consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways
in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.
Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world,
complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an
aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a
series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less
sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all
his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism,
homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to
redeem him as a man