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Its not easy to pull off a satisfying shoot-em-up in this day and age.
(For everyJohn Wick, it seems we get any number ofJohn Wickwannabes.)
In that context, Joe CarnahansCopshopinhabits an enviable Goldilocks Zone for movies about dudes getting their heads blown off.
Its clever but not cute, savage but not depressing, and cartoonish but not asinine.
Each actor also has an everyman quality that director Carnahan ably works under the surface here.
So it is Teddy versus Viddick, Valerie versus both of them, and all three versus Lamb.
The director also loves his double crosses, which means that we never quite know whats coming next.
