This gritty LA cop drama partners a cynical old-timer with a rookie and lets us follow them in their squad car through a single night while they deal with a series of unconnected incidents. We’ve seen it many times before, with loads of cop jargon you may well need subtitles to understand (the DVD has none). Their boring cross-talk soon palls and you may begin to wonder what the point of the film is beyond mimicking a documentary that highlights what a tough job LA cops have.
As a drama it completely fails to engage. The direction is smooth enough, but the plot is a dud that goes nowhere. The blurb calls it a ‘riveting crime thriller’. Er no, it isn’t. Even the title is meaningless. In the States it’s called Crown Vic (the model of the car), which is equally bad.
This film was slated by the (wokey) guardian so I knew it had to be fairly watchable and I was right.
Bulletproof is one of those fairly watchable cop films. It features 2 police officers on patrol and features plenty of stereotypes like pumps, drug dealers and people generally being shifty.
Will this film win awards for being a classic? most likely not but is it film promoting white machoism? Not really it's just a passable film that goes along at a decent pace.
I thought this film was just about ok but im quite hard of hearing and quite often need the subtitles on but there are non on this dvd so I struggled at times with the dialogue especially the police radio.