Regie:
Rudolf BiermannScenario:
Arpád SoltészCamera:
Martin ŠtrbaMuziek:
Vladimír MartinkaActeurs:
Alexander Bárta, Juraj Loj, Patrik "Rytmus" Vrbovský, Róbert Jakab, Anežka Petrová, Marián Mitaš, Jakub Štáfek, Ady Hajdu, Annamária Janeková (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Chief Police Officer Miky Miko is a solitary police operative who light-handedly navigates on the verge of law in the wild East Slovakian underworld of the early 1990s. Local mafia gangs, protected by the national secret service “SIS”, businessmen, who obediently pay the gangs their tributes, and the local police force, which is generously rewarded for closing its eyes to the crimes committed by "our" people, are coexisting here in a fragile symbiosis. Miky has learned not to trust anyone. But when he is assigned a young and inexperienced colleague, Igor Molnar, he discovers that they are very similar. Together they dare to bring down the mafia leader, who is protected from the highest ranks of the state machinery. The suddenly endangered system will not take long to react, and a sequence of events lead to the death of Miky's young partner Moly.
Miky decides to avenge his death. He starts a war not only with the local underworld, but also with the police force and the secret service. Alone against the established system, Miky relies only on the trust and help of his girlfriend Simona, and a former colleague Lepeňák, who joined the mafia gangs. The mafia gang and the secret service hire a professional assassin to get rid of Miky, and the game of cat and mouse begins. Losing means death, but as Miky finds out, victory also comes at a high price.
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Czechia has Pavel Soukup and the Slovaks have Rudolf Biermann!! Scumbag was already a good gangster movie and Cop War is great. It reminds me a lot of European gangster films, especially French ones, so I'm very satisfied. I didn't even mind the longer running time of 150 minutes because I wasn't bored for a second. It's got a very faithful 90's period setting, with corruption on all sides, and an excellent Rytmus as a mob boss, and he could have easily had more space because he was very fitting. It's gritty, atmospheric, manly, authentic and there are some unexpected twists. Just the way I like it. It's a pity the ending is so inconclusive, I guess a sequel is in the cards and I'd happily take a second helping. For me it is one of the best Slovak films. 80%
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In the 1990s, the police in Slovakia had an unexpected rapport with gangsters. But a pragmatic cop from Poprad and his new partner discover that there are things they can't turn a blind eye to, and blood will flow in the streets. Cop War is a stylish gangster drama with great actors, excellent atmosphere and world-class visuals. Too bad the plot is a bit disjointed and there are perhaps a few too many wild twists towards the end. But it is a high European standard in its genre, and we are not used to that here.
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Humanity is not inherently bad; it's just people who are awful. The vocabulary is straight out of A Clockwork Orange, except instead of Ludwig van, we have IMT Smile, instead of milk, cheap moonshine, and violence this time has a reason because fertility keeps the collaboration between both sides of the law going. With the Engineer's entrance, it slightly veers off genre-wise, and I can imagine it as a four-part, hour-and-a-half longer series, which would better explore some motifs and relationships. However, as a nostalgic probe for some Slovak voters, it works quite well with its face of helplessness under a gray mask of bravado. Anežka Petrová is a reasonably chameleon-like actress.
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