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one of my absolute favorites!

Expected more

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Shades of No Country For Old Men, and that takes some direction, cinematography and screenplay. As one of the other reviewers on IMDb said, this movie is reassuring that the Spiderman reboot is in good hands. Definitely worth a watch if you like(d) movies from the Coen Brothers "edge of the seat slow thrillers" genre

I was looking forward to watching this film because the plot seemed so simple, two boys who steal a cop car and they are chased down by a cop, and the title is just cop car, I wanted to see what this was about. And what I saw was perhaps one of my new favorite films. The film is so simple, in a good way, there are no more than 15 people seen throughout the whole film, there are no unnecessary scenes or dialogues, no over the top stuff, most of the film takes place on the countryside somewhere in the USA, like I said, everything's so simple but the story is delivered in such a way, that it does not get boring for a second. Though at one point I was like, ''this is not as good as I expected'', then it got as good as I expected, what can I say, really good film, the cinematography is beautiful and the music (though very little) as well. How it could have been better? perhaps if the boys reacted more like kids, I mean, at the end with the whole tension they did not cry(at least not as much as a kid would cry), I would have been crying inconsolably, crying for my mom, and my best friend is bleeding a lot, I'd definitely be crying, anyway, just a little thing I would have changed, perhaps not all kids would have reacted like that, anyhow, amazing film.

A pair of kids find an abandoned cop car and decide to take it for a joyride. Unfortunately, the car belongs to the local sheriff, who is a very bad man. The boys end up in a deadly game of cat & mouse as 'Bacon' will stop at nothing to track them down.A very heavy amount of time is spent on the scenery, on the outskirts of an old dusty American town, lots of back-roads, lots of time spent showing the boys going through fields - which really tried my patience. Yes, I get that the wide open spaces are supposed to be beautiful & boys are just being boys & this is supposed to be part of the build-up but that was all wasted on me. I would have edited this movie differently; I guess I would have changed the entire look and feel of the movie to make it more fast paced.I probably would not have watched this movie if Kevin Bacon had not been in it. That being said, the movie does suck you in; once you get into it; you do want to see how things turn out & what's going to happen to the two boys.

Travis (James Freedson-Jackson) and Harrison (Hays Wellford) are out walking when they notice a seemingly abandoned patrol car. With no police officer in sight and after some deliberation (and after finding the keys for the vehicle inside the car) the 2 boys decide to take the patrol car for a little spin. However, the kids finds themselves in over the heads when they find themselves being pursued by an unhinged Sheriff (Kevin Bacon) who is determined to get the car back for reasons beyond merely a sense of duty.Cop Car is purportedly a 'cat and mouse' film and I think that anyone who refers to it as being a 'cat and mouse' film should be sued under the trade descriptions act. The granddaddy of 'cat and mouse' road films is arguably Duel, but for this film to even be put in the same category of Duel is just beyond a joke....The first few minutes of the film consist of the two kids coming out with as many swear words as possible. I'm not quite sure what the point of this was, but it seemed rather silly and made me take a dislike to the two kids more or less straight away. The kids then steal a police car (after some deliberation) and go cruising about in it. Some of the scenes where the kids are happily cruising round in the patrol car are actually pretty funny; despite the severity of their actions there is always an underlying innocence with them as characters - they didn't take the car with the intention of killing anyone or in causing any harm, but they merely wanted to have some fun and saw a golden opportunity to do this. Therefore I can't really offer much criticism on this aspect of the story, but there are other problems elsewhere...Narratively the film is rather weak and yes we do learn that Kevin Bacon's character is corrupt and dodgy, but don't really learn why and what has caused him to be this way? Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but given the fact that the film spends so much time focusing on his corruption (such as him burying a body at the start) and then having to face-off with the brother of the guy he buried later in the film you'd have thought that the writers would have offered some insight into this aspect of the story (considering how important it seemed). All this seemed a waste of screen time in my opinion.Cop Car is billed as a 'cat and mouse' film and as I mentioned earlier this is not my idea of a 'cat and mouse' film. The first half of the film shows some mildly amusing moments with two kids trying to figure out how to drive a car and the other part of the film sees Kevin Bacon aimlessly running here, there and everywhere in an attempt to track down his patrol car. It's around the 40 minute mark before the Sheriff gets in touch with the kids and by that point the damage had already been done as far as I was concerned. Even when The Sheriff catches up with the kids the whole scenario relies on ridiculous contrivances in order to reach its resolution and the film never has one genuine moment of terror or suspense.If you want to watch some good cat and mouse road films then I'd suggest Joy Ride, Duel or the low budget Brit film Hush which are all infinitely better than Cop Car which is, at best, a mediocre cat and mouse film.