Sifting through all the trash on Amazon Prime is a thankless task. I was looking for a thriller, and tried several films, all of which were so appalling I quickly gave up on them. Finally I thought I'd try Cop Car. And I'm glad I did. It's really rather good.
Two very young runaway kids, in a sort of dust–bowl backwater, chance upon what appears to be an abandoned police car. They wind up joyriding in it. Unbeknownst to them, the owner is merely off tending to grave matters. When he returns to find his ride gone, what started as trailer trash kiddy daydreams turn into a tense yet believable 'day-mare'.
The whole film is as lean and rangy as Kevin Bacon's physique. I want to hate Bacon, for the crappy mobile ads he does that pollute our TVs. But he is a superb actor, and plays his part in this movie perfectly. The whole film is stripped down, as bleak and dusty as the settings it's placed in.
The kids' mixture of innocence and naivety, stupidity and joie de vivre, all tainted with traces of the toxic fallout from a broken adult world, dovetail nicely into a movie in which kids wind up taking on adult roles, in an action movie that rather cleverly yet literally depicts the whole action/thriller genre as inherently dumb and childish.
It's not a Coen brothers rip-off, by any stretch, but there are traces of a similar dark humour at work. Apparently this bombed, making big losses. In a way I can see why. It's more a critique of rather than a celebration of the dumb alpha-male action men with guns fantasies that are so popular.
Not an obvious out and out classic, this. But I think Cop Car has potential for a cult following. All in all, I thought it was great. I was gripped all the way, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
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