Cop car

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Movie
German title Cop car
Original title Cop car
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jon Watts
script Jon Watts,
Christopher Ford
production Jon Watts,
Sam Bisbee ,
Andrew Kortschak ,
Cody Ryder ,
Alicia Van Couvering
music Phil Mossman
camera Matthew J. Lloyd ,
Larkin Seiple
cut Megan Brooks ,
Andrew Hasse
occupation

Cop Car is an American road movie and thriller directed by Jon Watts , written by Watts and Christopher Ford . It stars Kevin Bacon , Shea Whigham , Camryn Manheim , James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2015 and was released by Focus World on August 7, 2015 .

action

The boys Travis and Harrison, who must have run away from home, find a cop car in a lightly wooded area . When they realize that no one is around, the boys try to open the doors. The driver's door is unlocked and they both play in it for a while, until Travis gets to the sun visor and a bunch of keys falls out. He uses it to start the car and, despite not knowing how to drive a car (automatic transmission), slowly gets it moving. Soon afterwards, the two of them are driving cross-country through the deserted area.

Flashback: A police car drives into the forest, which the two boys will later discover. Sheriff Kretzer ( Kevin Bacon ) gets out and takes off his uniform and gets a bag from the back seat. He puts a tarpaulin on the floor and dragged an apparently dead person out of the trunk. With an effort he pulls the body deeper into the forest to a hidden trapdoor and throws it into the hole below. Finally, he pours a sack of lime earth over it and closes the door. Then he goes back to his car and discovers the loss of his car. He calls his police station on his mobile phone and pretends to only be able to communicate via his phone due to radio problems.

Meanwhile, Harrison plays with the radio and burps into the microphone, but quickly stops because the control center answers in astonishment. Both get on a highway . Travis drives very fast, but keeps changing lanes. As a result, they almost collide with an oncoming car in which a woman is sitting.

Kretzer runs into a trailer park where he breaks into a parked car. He drives through the city, but is stopped by a police officer, who he can get rid of by sending a false search message to his station shortly beforehand via cell phone. Meanwhile, the woman, with whom the two children almost bumped, tells other police officers about the incident. Kretzer is also informed via radio about a police car stolen by two boys, but convinces the control center that no one has to believe it. He also gets the local police to switch radio channels, using the unobserved old channel to contact the boys. But they do not answer because they are playing in a field with the police equipment found in the car. To do this, they hear noises in the trunk of the car and open it. Inside is a bleeding, scared man begging not to be killed. When he notices that it is not the policeman but the boys who have opened the trunk, he tries to win them over and get him released. The boys then help him to get rid of his bonds.

During this time, Kretzer throws bags full of cocaine into a toilet. Then he hears a child's voice on the radio and gets a surprisingly willing answer from the children about the whereabouts of the police vehicle. The reason is that the man in the trunk locked the boys in the back seat, forcing them to contact the sheriff and lure them over. After that, he hides nearby with a gun. When Kretzer appears, he gets out and walks slowly towards the police vehicle. While he talks to the boys in a playful friendly manner, he recognizes from the tense faces of the silent children that something is wrong and immediately hides behind the car.

The woman who reported the stolen car happened to come back and yelled angrily at the boys in a kind of vigilante justice. She then notices Kretzer behind the car. He identifies himself as the injured sheriff and asks her to look for the car key, which supposedly should be somewhere in the field next to the road. With this he wants to find the shooter lying in wait - fully aware that he is putting the woman's life at risk. The woman notices the shooter and is immediately shot by him. A shootout breaks out between him and the sheriff. The man is fatally hit and the sheriff lies unconscious on the ground. The boys trapped in the car bring out a firearm previously hidden in their jackets and fire two shots at the window. Travis is hit by the first shot that ricochets, so Harrison has to drive the car in search of immediate help.

The sheriff wakes up and chases the boys; while doing so, he repeatedly hits her from behind. When Harrison manages to drive around an obstacle on the road with his presence of mind, her pursuer reacts too late and from now on no longer poses a threat to her. Harrison continues his journey with the probably dying Travis and drives towards a city as he does suddenly receives a radio request from the control center to report. He answers and asks for help; the further fate of the children remains open.

reception

The film received mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 66/100 based on 21 reviews, while at Rotten Tomatoes , 79 percent of the 77 reviews were positive.

The film service describes Cop Car as a “unrealistic, yet extremely drastic mixture of comedy and thriller”. It goes on to say that “the rousing boys playing and Kevin Bacon, who relishly presents himself as the villain ”, would make up for “some dramaturgical nonsense”.

The film was voted one of the ten best independent films of 2015 by the National Board of Review . In addition, the film was nominated as the best independent film and James Freedson-Jackson as the best young actor at the 2016 Saturn Awards ceremony .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Cop Car . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 981 V).
  2. ↑ Cop Car - short review . In: Filmdienst.de . Retrieved July 24, 2016.