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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFor all its familiar elements, Crown Vic is a well-made and strongly acted effort showing real talent on the part of its writer-director.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurraySouza and his cast explore a familiar milieu, and though they fall short of saying anything startlingly insightful about it, they do a fine job of making it feel real, and even vital.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA respectable if non-revelatory cruise through a familiar terrain of mean streets and men in blue.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreCrown Vic isn’t a bad picture. It’s just too unexceptional to stand out.
- 50ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedYou can’t fault the actors, who play the sadism for tough, two-fisted realism, but Crown Vic (a title that makes no sense; there’s nobody named Vic in it) is still a cheap copy of Training Day and a crash course in lock-jawed cynicism 101. Not to mention the worst P.R. the city of Los Angeles has had since the Rodney King scandal.
- 38RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer.
- Souza’s feature plays like an amalgam of the tropes of numerous TV and movie police procedurals.