Synopsis
One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.
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Cast
- Thomas JaneRay Mandel
- Luke KleintankNick Holland
- Josh HopkinsJack VanZandt
- David KrumholtzStroke Adams
- Bridget MoynahanTracy Peters
- Scottie ThompsonClaire
- Emma IshtaAlly
- Devon WerkheiserFloyd Stiles
- Alex MorfWatts
- Shiloh VerricoKailey
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
For all its familiar elements, Crown Vic is a well-made and strongly acted effort showing real talent on the part of its writer-director. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Souza and his cast explore a familiar milieu, and though they fall short of saying anything startlingly insightful about it, they do a fine job of making it feel real, and even vital. - 60
Variety
A respectable if non-revelatory cruise through a familiar terrain of mean streets and men in blue. - 50
Movie Nation
Crown Vic isn’t a bad picture. It’s just too unexceptional to stand out. - 50
Observer
You can’t fault the actors, who play the sadism for tough, two-fisted realism, but Crown Vic (a title that makes no sense; there’s nobody named Vic in it) is still a cheap copy of Training Day and a crash course in lock-jawed cynicism 101. Not to mention the worst P.R. the city of Los Angeles has had since the Rodney King scandal. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Aside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer. - 30
The New York Times
Souza’s feature plays like an amalgam of the tropes of numerous TV and movie police procedurals.
