Narc (DVD)

Narc is one of those films that leave a distinctly nasty taste in your mouth. If you’re looking for answers and happy endings, then this film isn’t for you. Narc is a grim, violent and generally very disturbing movie that demonstrates the harsh reality of life on the streets. When Detective Sergeant Nick Tellis accidentally shoots a pregnant woman whilst chasing a suspect, he finds himself discharged from the force on the grounds of inappropriate force. Eighteen months later, he is asked to attend his former precinct, where a disciplinary panel discusses an unsolved case with him. A police detective called Michael Calvess has been murdered in cold blood and ...  Read the complete review

If you thought Ray Liotta was good in Goodfellas then you're in for an even better treat in Joe Carnahan's Narc. He plays the self-righteous and impetuous Lieutenant Oak, who we first see wrapping a pool ball in a sock and whacking a criminal's face in the middle of the police station. Oak's ex partner Calvess was murdered sometime ago, with no conviction, and he is understandably obsessed with finding the people responsible. A young hotshot named Nick Tellis (Jason Patric, in an equally engrossing performance) is called to the case, and, like Oak, he has his own troubles- he accidentally shot a pregnant lady when pursuing a drug dealer, and is under close ...  Read the complete review

The movie ?Narc? has pretty good credentials. Produced by Tom Cruise, screenwritten and directed by Joe Carnahan (Mission Impossible 3), and starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta, it is a cop movie that harps back to such 70?s classics as ?Serpico? and ?The French Connection?. It is based loosely on a true story about the murder of a Dallas police officer which was the subject of an acclaimed documentary called ?The Thin Blue Line?. THE PLOT Nick Tellis (Patric) gets suspended from the Detroit police force after a pregnant woman is tragically shot at a drug bust he?s in charge of. He spends his days looking after his baby son while his ...  Read the complete review

The best TV shows are normally related to crime in some way or another. However in recetn years crime on the big screen has been pretty poor. I'm not talking about the regular crazy serial killer vs cops variety. I'm talking about cops doing their work in ordinary circumstances, "but what about Training Day?" I hear you ask, don't get me started on that over-rated peice of celluloid. You've got to go back to the seventies to find the real jewels of the genre, films such as Serpico and The French Connection where cops were flawed people, not superheroes. Well now we have Narc, a small film that nobody heard about until the end of last ...  Read the complete review

Since there is no DVD section for this, I am posting my DVD review here. Exploding off the blocks with a sustained gasp of heart-stopping aggression, "Narc" headlocks you with a raw immediacy that's impossible to ignore. Months after seeing his career sunk by indefinite suspension, narcotics cop Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is handed a way back: buddy-up with bully-boy plod Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) and a dredge Detroit's gutter-life to solve the killing of a fellow undercover officer. But as Tellis sinks further into the case, the warm centre of his family starts shrinking into the distance. What's more, Oak's smash-face detective work could ...  Read the complete review