Woody Harrelson's performance is a career-best; it now places him in the exalted company of Robert Deniro and Jack Nicholson. This unappealing brute of a police officer still contains a deeply buried humanity as presented by the incredible scripting of James Elroy and Oren Moverman. Harrelson's Dave Brown makes Harvey Kietel's Bad Lieutenant look like a campfire girl. He's not only a racist but he hates everyone equally. This is the story of one man's relentless downward spiral whose misanthropy and psychopathy is completely absorbing. This film is not for everyone but it is one of the finest character studies of a doomed cop. The saga of Daterape Dave (so-called for his murder of a serial rapist) is not a date-night experience.
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