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One Tough Cop (1998)

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Good TV Movie, 19 April 2000

Author: jmarcel from California

One Tough Cop has a terrible title, but is a fun movie. More like a made for TV movie than a theatrical release, it nonetheless is entertaining. Chris Penn and Baldwin turn in good performances and the story, although cliche, is good enough to keep your attention. I gave it a 7/10.

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Decent cop drama., 19 August 1999

Author: Brad K. from Wisconsin

One Tough Cop was a film that had one of the best trailers I've ever seen. It made the film look like a fascinating and powerful police drama. The film however did not get even close to the expectations of the trailer. It wasn't bad however. Just not great. Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects, Fled) stars as a police officer whose best friends are all involved in the Mob. Despite a great record, he gets framed by Internal Affairs and has to decide between his friends or his job. Chris Penn (Deceiver, The Funeral) is very good in support as Baldwin's very much in debt partner. Gina Gershon (Face/Off, Palmetto) is ok as the love interest. But the film's biggest strength lies in Stephen Baldwin. Baldwin is one of the most underrated actors in my mind (mainly because of poor career choices), but here he delivers a strong performance that brings the film through all of its predictability. Recommended for Baldwin's performance mainly.

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Excellent, 1 February 2001

Author: km0925 from United States

This a great movie about the true story of New York's greatest undercover officer. If you want to see a good undercover cop movie this is it. Bo Dietl fought against all the junkies on the street and when he went in the PD he had to fight off the brass to keep his job.

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Good one, 13 November 2000

Author: moviewiz-4 from New Zealand, Indonesia

This movie is quite good although the main character do not really tell much about his life(real life).

I just follow the story from pay-tv and would consider the plot is considerably well written, only after the credits roll, it was then realised that it based on a real person life.

Well, good one.

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Decent cop drama!, 26 August 2000
Author: the amorphousmachine from Australia

I really liked this movie! Mainly because of the performances by Stephen Baldwin as Bo Dietl and Chris Penn as his partner Duke!

One Tough Cop is a decent cop drama that has enough plot to keep you entertained, although I don't know how accurate the story is, but I wouldn't mind reading the book! ***1/2 out of *****

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
A true American story., 7 June 1999

Author: Nick DeMers from New Hampshire, USA

I very much loved this film. The acting was top notch. Granted it wasn't your typical high dollar film where everything gets blown up, but it was a true American story. I would recommend this film to anyone. Stephen Baldwin was excellent in this film, the role he played fit him very well. My advice is watch it and you'll love it.

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
One Tough Movie, 15 August 2003

Author: sanosito from New Mexico

This is a very good and much overlooked police drama. It held my attention from start to finish. Chris Penn and Steve Baldwin were great believable partners together. I don't really care if any of it was "true" or "accurate;" it was true and accurate enough for me as to what goes on in the streets of a big American city and within a large metropolitan police department/organization. Way underrated!

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
TV stuff, 12 May 2004
Author: ctomvelu from usa

It dawned on me after watching this again today and reading some of the comments here what is really wrong with this supposedly true crime flick.

It plays like a TV movie, not a theatrical release. Therefore it cannot begin to compare to flicks like SERPICO and even COPLAND, which for whatever faults these films may have, they are real movies. This plays "flat," with ineptly staged scenes and bad acting, just like a TV movie or most TV shows. I can think of no earthly reason to recommend this, unless you want to see Stevie B. playing a tough-as-a-tissue cop.

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Come on, People..., 7 September 2002

Author: cinestalker99

...this would have been better off as an HBO or Showtime Original, but I liked the biographical look at rogue New York Cop Bo Deitl. I confess, I heard him on the Howard Stern Show, and thought he was notes, but the movie is tightly and carefully plotted and the characters were believable. If the film has a fault, the plot is almost too tight. Good performances by Stephen Baldwin, Gina Gershon, and Mike McGlone. I liked the opening sequence okay as well. Come on, it's a cop movie, and a decent one at that.

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
cheesy cardboard undercover cops and mafia capo movie, 15 October 1998
Author: anonymous from new york, new york

top rate young turk actors, stephen baldwin and chris penn turn in painfully wooden portrayals of stereotypic undercover cops, baldwin: haunted good cop w/mafia boyhood friend and Penn: liqour/gambling addicted cop w/fatalist attitude...the FBI squeeze play is totally contrived, hackneyed and never advances the plot, the love interest sub-plot is under-developed and equally stilted...possibly the foreign (art film) director couldn't handle the material and/or properly motivate the cast...the subject matter and identical rape of a nun was masterfully done in "Bad Lieutenant" starring Harvey Keitel

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