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When two good-natured but rebellious young boys stumble across an abandoned cop car hidden in a secluded glade they decide to take it for a quick joyride. But things only get worse when the small town sheriff goes looking for his missing car. The kids find themselves in the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don';t understand and the only way out is to go as fast as their cop car can take them.
19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
18 July 2003
8 March 1961, Caldwell, New Jersey, USA
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 January 1969, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
July 08, 2016
For the most part... this is what a b-movie should be: lean, mean, and filled with just enough longueurs to be evocative without slowing the pace.
August 27, 2015
Despite the occasional pothole, Cop Car is an arresting ride.
August 13, 2015
[Cop Car features] the most evil monologue of the year. Perfectly, horribly, fantastically chilling.
August 28, 2015
Watts walks us innocents out into the landscape where Hollywood has made its greatest myths and then removes the blindfold.
August 13, 2015
"Cop Car" has two kids at its center, but don't mistake this taut, wicked little thriller for a children's film.
April 05, 2016
Driven by gorgeous visuals and a constant sense of unease, Cop Car is refreshing and an effortlessly entertaining little thriller.
February 24, 2016
After all is said and done, Cop Car feels like half of a movie with no real ending.
April 09, 2016
An impossibly sparse indie thriller with a cast of five and not much more going on that its title suggests - which is precisely why it works.
May 31, 2016
Bacon is super-efficient and Watts maximizes his presence in Cop Car to a frighteningly claustrophobic and creepy factor, ridding every frame of extraneous detail or information.
September 28, 2015
As an envoy for beautifully lonesome wide open spaces and pure slow-burn suspense, it rattles along with undeniable know-how.
August 27, 2015
Anchored by solid performances and a taut script, Cop Car is a tension-filled thrill ride.
August 13, 2015
With his sense of black humor and with a coldly calculating view of a world determined by intransigent laws of physics, Watts recalls the Coen brothers of "Blood Simple."
