Internal Affairs | 
| Director: Mike Figgis
Actors: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Richard Bradford
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 32900
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D322457D
ISBN: 6305310335
UPC: 097363224570
EAN: 9780792154594
ASIN: 6305310335
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1990
Release Date: March 9, 1999
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Product Description
AN EVIL LOS ANGELES POLICEMAN TOYS WITH THE MIND OF A DIVISION INVESTIGATOR ON HIS CASE.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Alright for action,,,But wasn't what I thought it was!!!! February 1, 2009
K. Marion (WV,USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wanted the one with Elijah Wood and it was in the actor's section,,,He is not in this one,,,,A little disappointing but I'll live through it,,,,The action is good though....!!!!
 First I liked it, now I think it's primitive December 11, 2008
K. Bronnick
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a teenager I remember watching and loving movies such as this one, based on the wounded machismo of the "good guy" character (played by Andy Garcia here). The bad guy, in this case Richard Gere, challenges the good guy on several key areas of his macho identity: Who is the smartest, who is the best lover, who does the women prefer, is he stealing MY woman? And the predictable happens- all us stupid boys/men in the audience are drawn in as we identify with the "good guy".
This is Internal Affairs in a nutshell. The plot is incredibly primitive, based on the macho competition between Garcia and Gere's characters. Nothing interesting happens, it's all totally predictable. If you want to prevent your brain from atrophy due to contamination, avoid this movie.
As a teenager I enjoyed this movie, now I think it's primitive and boring.
 Gere/Garcia at Their BEST August 29, 2007
jimmy_rants@yahoo (USA)
Never liked either of the two leads, Gere or Garcia. "American Gigolo" was dreck masquerading as something edgy and "Godfather 3" was misery to view.
That said, Gere redeems as the tense and unlikable Dennis Peck. He'll steal, takes bribes, screw your wife, stick you in the back any way he can, the kind of sociopathic personality that one hopes they never meet.He's also a cop.
Garcia as the good guy IAD officer who tries to play fair but has his own manhood,morality and temper tested to the 12th power by the amoral Peck.
Decent support cast, great overall.
about the movie/film Internal Affairs......... November 28, 2006
Ang Poon Kah (Singapore)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this DVD from Singapore videoshops....hee hee and have watched them. The main issue of this movie is actually to catch whom is the killer in a cop department. Recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of movie/film.....
Review by:
Dr, Prof (PhD)Ang Poon Kah
submission of TC to get university award.
Syncast for Mystery of the nile.
Imagine entertainment for film/movie the Da Vinci Code.
Zakkers film director.
DId I see the same movie as these other reviewers? September 30, 2006
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
After reading all of the other reviews of this film and all of the praise heaped on it, I have to wonder, are we all watching the same movie? "Internal Affairs" is a weird film with so many preposterous premises that it could almost be a dark comedy if it was not for all of the mental and physical cruelty going on. As ridiculous as the plot is, you can see the end, and about everything in between, coming at you a mile away.
Raymond Avilla (Andy Garcia) is an officer in the LAPD in the Internal Affairs Division. In one of his first assignments, Garcia and his partner Amy Wallace (Laurie Metcalf) are investigating officer Van Stretch (William Baldwin). Avilla also suspects Stretch's partner, Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), since he finds it hard to believe that Stretch's partner would be blind to his illegal activity. He also believes that Stretch does not have the intelligence or the independence to be pulling off all of the drug dealing on his own.
Peck is supporting several ex-wives, his current pregnant wife, and eight children - on a policeman's salary?. He's also sleeping with just about every woman that becomes his target of opportunity, including his own partner's wife. Metcalf's character is the only woman in this film not being sexually targeted and/or abused by Peck. However, this film attributes this more to her sexual orientation than to the possibility that she might actually have standards. Also, Peck is so involved in so many blatant dirty dealings that Frank Drebbin of Police Squad would have had to be chief of Internal Affairs to not notice what's been going on up to this point, especially given Peck's high rolling lifestyle and his harem. Peck is a politician extraordinaire, and his picture should be next to the phrase "quid pro quo" in the dictionary. This has kept him out of the line of fire of the other regular cops on the force. Whenever Peck calls in a favor, his cop friends don't seem to mind that the favors often involve felonies. Peck is also ultra-psychotic and murders his so-called best friend and partner, the unfortunate officer Stretch, to keep him from talking to internal affairs and exposing Peck's comfy criminal arrangements.
I have to wonder why such a good actor as Richard Gere would have taken on such a two-dimensional role as Dennis Peck. Peck seems to have taken on the profession of rogue cop more because he enjoys performing acts of violence, murder, and mayhem than the reason that he gives in the film - that he would do anything to support his kids. What does shooting Laurie Metcalf's character with a smile on his face have to do with supporting his kids? What does all of the mental cruelty that he generously portions out and treating every woman that he meets as a piece of meat got to do with supporting his kids?
Andy Garcia and Laurie Metcalf seemed rather wooden in their performances. In fact, it seems that only the villains in this film seem to come alive on screen. I get the feeling that all of the lead actors and actresses in this film just did not have proper direction during their performances on top of a script that does not make sense. This film has no brilliant twists, no lessons learned, and no complex characters. The only thing the viewer will get out of this movie is the need to take a long cleansing shower afterwards after having been exposed to the worst behavior humanity has to offer.
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