Whats ur favourite Chor/Police Cop/Robbers movie (Holly and Bolly)??


This week, Hollywood invites you to visit The Town, the new action/heist movie by sophomore director Ben Affleck, who also stars. It is the story of a group of Boston bank robbers who must contend with a tenacious FBI agent, played by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm, dead-set on bringing them down. I loved Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, so I am jazzed to see what he can do with one of my favorite genres. But the impending release of The Town got me thinking about heist films in which the cops-and-robbers relationship, effectively the relationship between right and wrong, is boiled down to an adversarial matchup between two characters. Here are a few of my favorites…

Heat

There is no possible way I could construct this list without mentioning Michael Mann’s seminal 1995 heist opus. Not only did Mann create the quintessential conflict between cop and robber, he did so by reuniting AI Pacino and Robert De Niro for the first time since The Godfather: Part II! There is no touching this film in terms of performance, cinematography, thrilling hold-ups or casting. My favorite scene in the film, the moment that canonizes its aptitude for this list, is in the coffee shop, where master thief De Niro flat-out tells dogging cop Pacino that he is not afraid to put a bullet in his head if he gets in his way. When any other actor says that, it’s a threat. But when DeNiro says it, it’s officially the day you peed your pants on set…unless you are cool-as-ice Pacino.

Inside Man

Having never been a fan of Spike Lee, I was absolutely blown away by his 2006 heist film Inside Man. Short of getting De Niro to battle Pacino yet again, there really is no finer casting of the film’s foibles than Clive Owen as the mastermind of the bank robbery and Denzel Washington as the cop doing everything in his power to save the hostages Owen is holding within. I love how Inside Man takes the typical dynamic of cob and robber and gives it an interesting political spin. The plot never flinches from the undeniable fact that the Owen’s character is always in control and that he really has anticipated the every movie of law enforcement. The ending is fantastic.

(i would say i checked inside man as it had chaiya chaiya track in it but i was amazed and speechless after watching and seeing the finale.. its one climax no one can predict)

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14 Responses to “Whats ur favourite Chor/Police Cop/Robbers movie (Holly and Bolly)??”

  1. satyam u catchin this movie?

    @gf have u watched gone baby gone?

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    • I have…GBG was a serviceable crime drama but I thought it wasn’t nearly as great as it was made out to be…

      I’m probably seeing this today. This type of thing is of course up my alley, and in this case a guilty pleasure.

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  2. fav Chor police – Bolly
    1.Parvarish
    2.Shakti
    3.Dhoom-1
    4.Khakee
    5.Khalnayak
    6.Ram Lakhan
    7. Karma
    8.Jalwa- Naseer
    9.Ardh Satya
    and mother of all
    10.SHOLAY

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  3. Forgot -“Kalicharan”

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  4. Affleck has found an alternative career. This has opened to srprisingly good revews ( over 90% on RT) and decent BO,too. 23-25 million WE.

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  5. I saw this just yesterday. Very, very enjoyable exercise in the genre that doesn’t do anything particularly new, but it’s a tense, well-written heist film and a well-developed character drama. The central romance is crucial and it really works here. This has a good look and feel too, informed of course by Affleck’s knowledge of the “terrain” and it is the second time where as a director he’s concentrating on a poorer American neighborhood with a fine feeling for its details and faces. And of course some of its concerns. Given the recent track-record on this front with Hollywood, that in itself is a noble effort.

    I definitely preferred it to Gone Baby Gone by a mile.

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  6. I liked the film too…I think Jeremmy Renner stole the show with his hot-headed act.

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    • i guess is the one from from hurt locker.. m seeing it soon..

      btw if so credit to director affleck.. he accepted and didnt interfere in jeremys performance

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  7. difficult to say – have to think about it.
    in hollywood, speed was one of my favorite action films involving the chor police angle..
    In Hindi cinema, Khakee comes to mind.. Ghayal is another.,company too..

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  8. Bhalo_Manush Says:

    “Sarfarosh” an absolute fav….

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