Crown Vic (film)

Nick Holland is a newly minted officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. On his first night shift, he is assigned to patrol the city with experienced policeman Ray Mandel. Ray and Nick are completely different personalities; while Nick is a down-to-earth, self-proclaimed world improver, Ray is a divorced pessimist with a penchant for breaking the rules and resorting to violence. In their shift, they are responsible for all kinds of incidents, from robberies to domestic unrest to car fires. They also rescue a suspect who is nearly killed by a reckless plainclothes officer. Ray has the drug-addicted widow of his former partner picked up so he can talk to her and try to help her, and he has her abusive boyfriend taken in by another officer. Later, he goes off-duty and outside his territory to rescue his former partner's daughter, who was abandoned by her mother, who could not handle her. Ray admits to being the girl's biological father. The cops also find the abandoned car, which was driven by masked robbers who killed several people and were shown in the opening scene and several more times. In a traffic stop, Nick is taken hostage and almost killed. ==Cast==

• Thomas Jane as Ray Mandel • Luke Kleintank as Nick Holland • Gregg Bello as Don Koski • David Krumholtz as Stroke Adams • Bridget Moynahan as Tracy Peters • Scottie Thompson as Claire • Josh Hopkins as Jack VanZandt • Devon Werkheiser as Floyd Stiles • Emma Ishta as Ally ==Production==

Souza wrote the script in ten days. However, in May 2018, the roles were subsequently taken over by Thomas Jane and Luke Kleintank, respectively. Despite being set in Los Angeles, the movie was filmed in Buffalo, New York. Baldwin, who had since served as a producer instead, told The Hollywood Reporter that he had to miss the opportunity to star in the film. ==Release==

Crown Vic had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2019. It was released in select theaters on November 8, 2019, and on VOD by Screen Media Films on January 7, 2020. ==Reception==

Box office Crown Vic grossed $3,868 in one opening theatre in North America against a production budget of $3.6 million. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded the film one and a half stars out of four, commenting, "Aside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer." Movie Nations Roger Moore gave the film two stars out of four, stating "Crown Vic is a grounded and gritty cops-on-the-night-shift melodrama built around a tightly coiled turn by Thomas Jane... Crown Vic isn't a bad picture. It's just too unexceptional to stand out." Rex Reed of Observer Media gave the film two stars out of four and said, "I never cease to wonder how some films manage to borrow, imitate, copy, or steal from older films without acknowledging or crediting the originals. A predictable, ho-hum police procedural called Crown Vic, about one night of violence and death with a veteran Los Angeles cop assigned to escort a rookie cop through the criminal underground while teaching him the ropes, is so close to the 2001 Training Day that it's practically a remake." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated, "The filmmaker displays a genuine flair for staging exciting action sequences, and the ever-reliable Jane delivers a solid lead performance, here tempering his natural machismo with a sympathetic, mournful quality. But there's just too much about Crown Vic that we haven't seen a thousand times before, to more impactful effect." ==References==