cop land

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118887

a lot of people do not like sylvester stallone on account of rambo and rocky, both characters with names that start with the letter 'r', being five letters long, and, arguably, fitting a consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel pattern.  i have always like those characters, though, despite the muscle-bound badass aspect.  for whatever reason, i usually identify with the aspects of the characters that are not the muscle-bound badass part.  i had plenty to identify with in cop land, where stallone plays an overweight, half deaf, not-so-bright sheriff.  i would have enjoyed it much more if this character had not stumbled along while the story happened around him.  i got the impression that the script writers meant for his actions to be driving the city cops, but it came out a lot more like the city cops were motivated by what they thought he might do, maybe.

cop land gets three stuffed turtles.