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Box Office: $10,237,964
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CONSENSUS
Jason Patric and Ray Liotta are electrifying in this gritty, if a little too familiar, cop drama.
CAST & CREW
Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Busta Rhymes
Directed by Joe Carnahan
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SYNOPSIS
In homage to such classic films as "The French Connection" and "Serpico," writer/director Joe Carnahan's "Narc" explores the dark underbelly of the drug world with a compelling story about the intense psyche behind those individuals called "narcs," undercover officers who put themselves on the front lines of the war against drugs. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong brutal violence, drug content, and pervasive language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 47 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 10, 2003
Video: Jun 17, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Drugs, Thriller, Cops, Violence
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Narc Site
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 "This is the film Training Day wanted to be."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"A live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"The best thing I can say about this film is that I can't wait to see what the director does next."
-- Ron Wells, FILM THREAT
 "Narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"The twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance, but twists are getting irritating, and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Liotta put on 30 pounds for the role, and has completely transformed himself from his smooth, Goodfellas image."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Performances all around are tops, with the two leads delivering Oscar-caliber performances."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Ray Liotta and Jason Patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles, but don't be fooled: Nobody deserves any prizes here."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"A riveting profile of law enforcement, and a visceral, nasty journey into an urban Hades."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"A cop story that understands the medium amazingly well."
-- Gabriel Shanks, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
"A realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Writer/director Joe Carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches, but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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"Smart script, believable story, lots of unanswered questions, none resolved in pat ‘Hollywood’ ways, great locations and set design, and good, dreary-looking, cinematography."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Despite the pyrotechnics, Narc is strictly by the book."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"A few artsy flourishes aside, Narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"In an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure, Narc strikes a defiantly retro chord, and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"...a well-built cop opera..."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"The story and characters are nowhere near gripping enough."
-- Christopher Tookey, LONDON DAILY MAIL
"An empty exercise, a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"It was filled with shootings, beatings, and more cussing than you could shake a stick at."
-- Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi, BROOMFIELD ENTERPRISE
"The two leads, nearly perfect in their roles, bring a heart and reality that buoy the film, and at times, elevate it to a superior crime movie."
-- Norm Schrager, FILMCRITIC.COM
"...Liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character’s deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario. Too bad."
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
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FRESH 74%
Avg. Rating: 7/10 |
"Narc may not get an 'A' for originality, but it wears its B-movie heritage like a badge of honor."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films. It zips along with B-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"The actors are all charged up by their roles, and it rubs off on us: You walk out with a caffeine- and-doughnut high."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"About the best thing you could say about Narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture. Whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste."
-- Jeff Stark, SALON.COM
"They're just a couple of cops in Copmovieland, these two, but in Narc, they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Deflated ending aside, there's much to recommend the film."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"In the end, the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director Joe Carnahan."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"Narc is all menace and atmosphere."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"An entertaining, grimy view of the traps of machismo tucked inside a cop thriller."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"Fresh and raw like a blown-out vein, Narc takes a walking-dead, cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Narc" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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