Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 3, 2018 11:24:49 GMT
Internal Affairs (1990) by Mike Figgis
I never saw the entire film but always remembered one particular scene when it was on television, very late back in the early 00s.
Richard Gere in the part of the "everyday" police officer role, ends up beating the crap out of Andy Garcia in an elevator.
Garcia who is supposed to be more of the complete opposite of Gere is here seen as the clean cut and professional investigator Raymond Avilla who ends up falling right into a sleazy and violent trap set up by the sadistic Dennis Peck (Gere), who then finishes the "conversation" by telling Avilla that his wife (Nancy Travis) likes it rough and closes it off by giving him a pair of female panties to clean up the blood with.
Next scene have Garcia going into a complete berserk mode, ending up with him knocking out his own wife in a fully crowded restaurant.
I have always wanted to see the rest of the film, and when I now finally did I was not all that impressed by the end result.
Sure, as a crime thriller it was fun seeing Rirchard Gere in a very different kind of a role to what I guess he was most known for at the time, which I guess was due to being often "typecasted" as the romantic lead, and since he had already done such a job in one of the years most popular films in Pretty Woman (1990), I think he handled himself very well as the calculating psychopath we get to see in Internal Affairs.
Andy Garcia plays the heroic part ok, but is not given much of a chance to give his character any real "depth", and where the beautiful Nancy Travis feels kinda "wasted" in the role as Garcia's pretty young career driven wife.
It is very obvious from the very first go that this film is trying hard to make people forget Richard Gere as the romantic first lover and show that he can also be the villain, and a very evil one as well. It works mostly fine but the film and its story is a little to thin and ends up falling a few times too many into very overused cliche ridden scenes which seems poorly delivered and acted out, and sadly ruins some of the movies more serious scenes.
All in all, a decent crime movie but still one that could have been much better executed.
However, it sure did contain some entertaining scenes here and there and Gere provived one of his more memorable roles during the 90s.
6/10
I never saw the entire film but always remembered one particular scene when it was on television, very late back in the early 00s.
Richard Gere in the part of the "everyday" police officer role, ends up beating the crap out of Andy Garcia in an elevator.
Garcia who is supposed to be more of the complete opposite of Gere is here seen as the clean cut and professional investigator Raymond Avilla who ends up falling right into a sleazy and violent trap set up by the sadistic Dennis Peck (Gere), who then finishes the "conversation" by telling Avilla that his wife (Nancy Travis) likes it rough and closes it off by giving him a pair of female panties to clean up the blood with.
Next scene have Garcia going into a complete berserk mode, ending up with him knocking out his own wife in a fully crowded restaurant.
I have always wanted to see the rest of the film, and when I now finally did I was not all that impressed by the end result.
Sure, as a crime thriller it was fun seeing Rirchard Gere in a very different kind of a role to what I guess he was most known for at the time, which I guess was due to being often "typecasted" as the romantic lead, and since he had already done such a job in one of the years most popular films in Pretty Woman (1990), I think he handled himself very well as the calculating psychopath we get to see in Internal Affairs.
Andy Garcia plays the heroic part ok, but is not given much of a chance to give his character any real "depth", and where the beautiful Nancy Travis feels kinda "wasted" in the role as Garcia's pretty young career driven wife.
It is very obvious from the very first go that this film is trying hard to make people forget Richard Gere as the romantic first lover and show that he can also be the villain, and a very evil one as well. It works mostly fine but the film and its story is a little to thin and ends up falling a few times too many into very overused cliche ridden scenes which seems poorly delivered and acted out, and sadly ruins some of the movies more serious scenes.
All in all, a decent crime movie but still one that could have been much better executed.
However, it sure did contain some entertaining scenes here and there and Gere provived one of his more memorable roles during the 90s.
6/10