Here is a film I have no clue how to approach. I honestly have no idea what to say. The basic premise is solid- two boys find an abandoned police car and take it for a joyride. Turns out that the car belongs to the crooked sheriff, and he will do just about anything to get it back. Now the first sentence sets up a goofy family comedy with lots of naive-car-hijinks and maybe some misuse of police equipment. The second sentence however, especially with the extremely versatile Kevin Bacon in the role of a crooked cop, sets up a gritty and dark revenge sort of action thriller, which is really different when the "felons" are two 10-year-olds. Now both parts of the film work separately quite well. The boys are convincing, curious and clueless and have good chemistry together, and very few actors can out-creep Kevin Bacon when he's even remotely trying, and he is in this feature. The issue is, that when the two separate parts collide we as an audience are treated to a jarring experience that at times is downright unpleasant. Worth watching, maybe... but don't expect it to be "fun", and definitely don't let your kids watch it.

I was looking forward to watching this film because the plot seemed so simple, two boys who steal a cop car and they are chased down by a cop, and the title is just cop car, I wanted to see what this was about. And what I saw was perhaps one of my new favorite films. The film is so simple, in a good way, there are no more than 15 people seen throughout the whole film, there are no unnecessary scenes or dialogues, no over the top stuff, most of the film takes place on the countryside somewhere in the USA, like I said, everything's so simple but the story is delivered in such a way, that it does not get boring for a second. Though at one point I was like, ''this is not as good as I expected'', then it got as good as I expected, what can I say, really good film, the cinematography is beautiful and the music (though very little) as well. How it could have been better? perhaps if the boys reacted more like kids, I mean, at the end with the whole tension they did not cry(at least not as much as a kid would cry), I would have been crying inconsolably, crying for my mom, and my best friend is bleeding a lot, I'd definitely be crying, anyway, just a little thing I would have changed, perhaps not all kids would have reacted like that, anyhow, amazing film.

In the countryside, the runaway kids Travis (James Freedson-Jackson) and Harrison (Hays Wellford) find a police car in the field in the middle of nowhere and they decide to drive it. A woman (Camryn Manheim) sees the boys in the police car on the road. When they stop the car, they find a man (Shea Whigham) tied with rope in the trunk. However, Travis and Harrison release the man that subdue them and prepares a trap for Kretzer. Meanwhile the dirty Sheriff Kretzer (Kevin Bacon) finds that his car was taken by the boys and he tries to retrieve it. What will happen to them?"Cop Car" is a terrible and overrated film with a boring story and annoying boys. The IMDb User Rating lures unwary viewers that expect to see a decent B-movie. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Viatura" ("Cop Car")

Two kids (James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford), goofing off in rural Colorado, stumble upon an abandoned cop car, deciding to take it for a spin! After this, the film takes us back to why the car was left alone and empty: a crooked sheriff (Kevin Bacon), who had confiscated some dope from two hoods (one was killed and buried by the cop while the other is left face-beaten and plastic-tied but alive), had to leave it for a moment. When the sheriff returns, he sees that the car is gone and must be found, later realizing two kids had taken it! So he's off to find the kids, with various obstacles making his life difficult. He uses a piece of rope to pull open a door lock, stealing a car in a neighborhood trailer park, narrowly ducking identification from both a local and a motorcycle officer. The hood in the trunk (Shea Whigham) is able to manipulate the kids into helping him loose, taking them hostage through the use of a shotgun. Whigham plans to shoot Bacon once he is told across a radio of their whereabouts by the boys on where to find the car. Meanwhile, a motorist (Camryn Manheim) noticed the boys driving wildly down the road, just missing her. She returns to find them, but it turns out to be quite the mistake as she encounters the sheriff, the cop car with the boys trapped in the back seat, and the possible bullet of a machine gun (Whigham, hidden behind a well placed windmill).At a lean 90 minutes, with a game Bacon who just oozes sleaze and corruption, there's a gulp-in-the-throat suspense due to the boys' cluelessness when behind the wheel of a car or holding loaded guns. Add Whigham, with a face just a bloody, battered mess, telling the kids that if they inform Bacon of letting him out of the trunk he'd kill their parents and pets(!), and there's lots of menace directed possibly at the kids' welfare. Manheim is handed a minor part as the motorist, with little much in the way of screen time to give the character any definition. She's every bit the wrong-place-wrong-time type of character these kinds of movies always offer us. Bacon avoiding multiple problems that might halt his progress towards getting to the kids is part of the film's tension: will he or won't he find them, and what then? Whigham is an added wrinkle that further complicates matters. The rural setting is all "Badlands" in its open fields and depiction of how boredom and the absence of anything positive to occupy time can lend itself to a dark road of violence and danger. Compelling in how it alternates between what Bacon is up and the kids: the knowledge that the cop and kids will eventually meet is certainly frightening. Whigham is that monkey wrench that just makes things so much worse. A cow, of all things, complicates Bacon more than Whigham ultimately does! A ricocheted bullet could lead to tragedy as the kids use a cop gun to burst a window. That is Mrs. Bacon's (Kyra Sedgwick) voice across the radio as the dispatcher his cop continues to contact so that he can move the police off of the dial he needs to contact the boys in peace.