Fresh
Figgis never lets the pace slow long enough to expose the story's thinness despite, in retrospect, a moderate amount of action.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Director and cast
- Mike Figgis Director
- Richard Gere as Dennis Peck
- Andy Garcia as Raymond Avila
- Laurie Metcalf as Amy Wallace
- Nancy Travis as Kathleen Avila
- Elijah Wood as Sean Stretch
- Richard Bradford as Grieb
- William Baldwin as Van Stretch
- Michael Beach as Dorian Fletcher
- Faye Grant as Penny Stretch
- John Kapelos as Steven Arrocas
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Internal Affairs delivers what it promises, and perhaps a little more. There's less action but more menace, and the pulse quickens as the plot drives relentlessly toward a conclusion that, in retrospect, can be seen as inevitable.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
Internal Affairs is, for the dim movie season that is traditionally January, an unusually bright light.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
[A] cliched catchall, which wastes a fine cast.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Those with strange axes to grind, or too much time, or demented senses of humor, and you know who you are, may just have a fun time of this.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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