One of my all time favorites.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This clever, smart, under-stated story displays much of the style and cinematic genius that director Mike Figgis would show for "Leaving Las Vegas" only 6 years later. The actors are well-cast in their roles and all of them give stellar performances no matter how minor their part. The many gears and wheels that are grinding in this story, of beat cop Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) and his shadow fiefdom of criminals in blue, are mostly just hinted at rather then explained outright. It takes a perceptive viewer to get all the subtle nuances the story constantly is presenting, and to do it in only one viewing ( it took me the second viewing before I got many of them but it was worth it - there's a lot of elements to this story and most of them are interesting). I'm not sure why this movie is rated so low on IMDB, I'm tempted to think that many viewers didn't like seeing Richard Gere as villain; or perhaps it was the great subtlety which the story is told. Even so, this is one movie that no Richard Gere fan should miss - it's one of his strongest, most under-stated performances..

Bad cops abound in "Internal Affairs", a pulpy thriller by Mike Figgis. The film stars Andy Garcia as an Internal Affairs agent who locks horns with Richard Gere's Dennis Peck. Peck's a womanizer and crooked cop with much blood on his hands. Garcia tries to take him down."Internal Affairs" is at its best during its early, low key moments. Unfortunately the film quickly goes into over-the-top territory, with ridiculous gun fights and much melodrama. Sidney Lumet's the king of this genre, with films like "Q and A", "Serpico" and "Prince of the City". Figgis can't compete.6/10 – Worth one viewing. See Garcia instead in "Jennifer 8".

Raymond Avila has just joined the internal affairs police department of Los Angeles, where he goes about trying to bring down Dennis Peck a dirty cop who has a very smart, but dangerous sway about him. While director Mike Figgis won't win any awards for originality in what is a basic corrupt cop dramatic thriller, it's still an interestingly potent showing due to the character traits that are illustrated throughout the productive material (where it becomes a blurred vision of the good and bad guys as their methods and mindsets are closer than you would think) with committed powerhouse turns by Richard Gere (against type) and Andy Garcia. Watching Gere's manipulative portrayal really push Garcia's steely character made for some clever, if intense passages as the investigation gets deeper as the two really lock horns. Sometimes it would be caught in a staring competition between the two. Quite dark, sombre with its moody atmospherics and tight handling as it goes about things in a timely manner, but some plot details seem a little too contrived or out-of-place. The support cast are ably good too, even those in the smallest of parts. Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin and Nancy Travis leave their marks. Also Richard Bradford, Michael Beach, John Capodice, Faye Grant, John Kapelos and Xander Berkeley."You know all your friends on the force. You don't have them anymore."

oms this movie still is so AWESOME.Laurie Metcalf who play Jackie in the hit show from 90s Roseanne,wow she is So good in this too love her acting!i love how the chemistry between two partners Garcia/Metcalf was VERY convincing,strictly platonic. i love his wife in this nancy travis. was very pretty, so cute, her long very wild thick curly hair i remember most about her as her acting was really good in this too. love this filmand i agree the scene at the end"when he say to her if your f---king lieing to me,if i see you with some 1 i will f----king kill you! lol then the part in the restaurant, oms when he is asking her first niceand calm where were you who you go to lunch with and she got snarly says none,of YOUR business roflmfao! oms. that was something she should have not said then,he hit her LOL not at all NICE! however,the scene was LOL he start speaking Spanish totally going off on her in the public at her job lol everyone staring,lol they would not dare! even approach I.A.D.officer Raymond avilla.I love his acting. (andy Garcia)acting so hot. a very passionate papito.y' yo amo this movie,never sick of it, even if it is sad when William Baldwin character Van Stretch killed by Dennis peck rich gere.Richard was MEAN in this just all type of sleaze he was great in it though. a very good movie. Van Stretch(Baldwin)should have known not to trust this guy,Richard gere(Dennis peck)was so bad in this film,very great acting on all parts!the ending is the best but avail the entire movie is ten stars easy...adiós..Most Beautiful BMW Redhead over at Facebook