In one of the more effective scenes in “Copshop,” a hitman, played with psychotic geek gusto by Toby Huss (rocking a Ben Davidson mustache), strolls into a desert police station in Neva…
), the Mob hitman who has been assigned to kill him — both got themselves locked up on purpose. Facing off, they rag on each other, exchanging occasional acrid bits of philosophy, almost like characters in an old Western. After making her escape, Officer Young joins them, having accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. I like the idea of a prison hang-out movie , but the defining quality here is that the characters honestly hate each other.
Huss’s jabbering psycho, who also has the worst scene in the movie , has teamed up with Huber , a lumbering, bearded dirty cop, and the movie is kind of about these two trying to bust into the jail so that they can kill everyone else. But it’s really about how the other three take their place in the hierarchy of good and evil.
Butler is, of course, playing a hitman with a heart of gold. He establishes that by the icy accuracy with which he sizes up the sleaziness of Grillo’s character, and also by the definitiveness of his physical force. Butler has gone beyond bruiserhood — in “Copshop,” he’s like the human version of a Mack truck. Grillo makes his duplicity double-edged , and Alexis Louder, who starts out very by-the-book, turns out to be holding her power under wraps.
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