Copshop

I'm getting to enjoy Gerrard Butler more on screen than ever before. I don't think this is great, but there are bits that worked well...not terrific, not terrible, but interesting.

(Alexis Louder) is absolutely magnetic in "Copshop," an energetically entertaining B-movie joyride through the visuals, music and blood-splattered plots of... '70s crime films...with a detour through the American Western for good measure.

It's among the best Tarantino-influenced thrillers to have made it to theaters in the last quarter-century.

If the idea of a cage match between Grillo and Butler that's set in mostly separate cages, until it isn't, sounds like Guy Movie Heaven to you, well, ascend at will.

​Fast, funky and ballistic, Copshop references the '70s cop actioner and its Western roots, letting the bullets ricochet and the genres collide.

Carnahan says to us, "If you are a fan of dark humor, a twisty plot, and intense, bloody action, I am here to give it to you in a visually stylish, enjoyably nasty fashion."

Two Joe Carnahan films in one year? How did we get so lucky?

The film borrows heavily from both Quentin Tarantino and the classic cinema that inspired him. But there's still plenty of fun to be found in Copshop's charismatic characters and bullet-spraying final showdown.

Copshop is a fantastic, entertaining-as-hell action movie. Definitely watch it if you can.

An amazingly action packed thriller with Alex Louder emerging as a true star.