Rampart (DVD)

Los Angeles 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop dedicated to doing the people s dirty work and asserting his own code of justice often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear anguish and paranoia as his world complete with two ex-wives who are sisters two daughters an aging mentor dispensing bad advice investigators galore and a series of seemingly random women starts making less and less sense. In the end what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense machismo chauvinism arrogance sexism homophobia racism aggression misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?