Line of Duty (2019)

December 25, 2019 (GB) • Thriller, Crime, Action • 98m

Overview

Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.

Director

Steven C. Miller

Writer

Jeremy Drysdale

Top Billed

Aaron Eckhart

Keywords

killing murder killed aggressive murdered playful furious ambivalent apologetic cheerful hopeful joyful vibrant swear

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Top Billed Cast

Aaron Eckhart

Frank Penny

Courtney Eaton

Ava Brooks

Ben McKenzie

Dean Keller

Giancarlo Esposito

Tom Volk

Jessica Lu

Clover Nestel

Dina Meyer

Ruth Carter

David Shae

Telescope

Betzaida Landín

Maya Prinz

MWW Michael Wilkerson

Man Watching Live Coverage

Jonathan Aidan Cockrell

Market Shopper

Lindsey Garrett

Walter

Nickola Shreli

Hendrix

Leslie Sides

Market Vendor

Mason McCulley

Fletch

J. Cameron Barnett

Transport Driver

Jessica Nam

College Kid Passenger

James Hutchison III

Max Keller

Gary Peebles

Bunny

Heather Fusari

Patrol Car Partner

Jan Jeffcoat

Female News Anchor

Sawyer D. Jones

Market Shopper

Brandon Morris

Radio Commanding Officer

Elijah M. Cooper

D'Brickshaw 'D' Martin

Jorge Castro-Salinas

Detective

Andrew Constantini

Newsroom Crew

Rudolf Weber

Innocent Victim

Corey Thouviner

Guy with Shovel

Nishelle Williams

Claudia Volk

Steven Legate

College Kid Driver

Kevin Waterman

Pursuing Police Officer

Lawrence Hinkle

Homeless Man

Valerie Turner

Uniformed Cop

Kevin Dyer

Street Cleaner

Carly Farish

Patron

Kaley Alyssa Flanagan

Young Market Shopper

Ty Hill

Police Officer

Bruce Cooper

Police Officer

Christopher Zmuda

Helicopter Pilot / Vet Cop

Damion S. White

Hippie

Talon Worden

Skate Board Kid

Kristi Averette

Farmers Market Vendor (uncredited)

Jeremy Connell

Mourner (uncredited)

Kyndall Hamilton

Grave Digger (uncredited)

Cassidy Rickels

Coffee Shop Patron (uncredited)

Melissa Thouviner

News Room Worker (uncredited)

Tyler Thouviner

Kid that Helps Rescue (uncredited)

Kaj Goldberg

Male News Anchor

Shai Debroux

Squad Car Driver

Jess Durham

Bull Cop

Ronny Mathew

Slick Cop

Colt Hogan

First Young Cop

Chris Zmuda

Veteran Cop

Alvin Chon

Paramedic

Michael Harris

Citizen (uncredited)

Crew

Taylor Stewart

Original Music Composer

Andrew Grush

Original Music Composer

Jeremy Drysdale

Writer

Stan Salfas

Editor

Marc Gabizon

Executive Producer

Markus Aldenhoven

Executive Producer

Shanan Becker

Executive Producer

Ness Saban

Executive Producer

James Swarbrick

Executive Producer

Aaron Eckhart

Executive Producer

Don Bracken

Property Master

Rudolf Weber

Stunt Coordinator

Alvin Chon

Stunts

Stephen Conroy

Stunts

Shai Debroux

Stunts

Jess Durham

Stunts

Kevin Dyer

Stunts

Shauna Galligan

Stunt Double

James Hutchison III

Stunts

Steven Legate

Stunts

Jessica Nam

Stunts

Dustin Nelson

Stunts

Carl Anthony Nespoli

Stunts

Kevin Waterman

Stunt Coordinator

Christopher Zmuda

Stunts

Michael Yahn

Fight Choreographer

Michael Yahn

Stunt Double

Tara Finegan

Executive Producer

Steven C. Miller

Director

Brandon Cox

Director of Photography

Tiffany Boyle

Executive Producer

Bill Bromiley

Executive Producer

Craig Chapman

Producer

Christelle Conan

Executive Producer

Stephen Emery

Executive Producer

Peter Fruchtman

Co-Producer

Adam Goldworm

Executive Producer

Phil Hunt

Executive Producer

Ryan R. Johnson

Executive Producer

Scott LaStaiti

Producer

Malee Nerenhausen

Co-Executive Producer

Myles Nestel

Producer

Elsa Ramo

Executive Producer

Compton Ross

Executive Producer

Mary C. Russell

Line Producer

Jonathan Saba

Executive Producer

Chris Sivertson

Associate Producer

Martin Sprock

Producer

Tiffany Stone

Producer

Renee Tab

Producer

Christopher Tuffin

Producer

Skip Williamson

Producer

Michelle Lewitt

Casting

Niko Vilaivongs

Production Design

Aaron Bautista

Art Direction

Leah Hudspeth

Set Decoration

Critter Pierce

Costume Design

Bonnie Stauch

Costume Design

Ele Bardha

Second Unit Director

Kat Hess

Second Assistant Director

Jeremy Phoenix

First Assistant Director

Matt Banfield

Assistant Location Manager

Kyle Photo Bucher

Location Manager

Drew Callner

Location Assistant

Anna Bowen

Script Supervisor

Rhona Rubio

Script Supervisor

Jeff Maynard

Post Producer

Reviews

SierraKiloBravo

⭐ 4/10

July 29, 2020

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/W8VRwcfebF8

When hearing about a movie you often hear the phrase “it's so bad it’s good” meaning that even though it's an awful movie, there's something about it that makes you not entirely hate it. This brings me to _Line of Duty_. If the generic title wasn't a clue as to what kind of movie this is, maybe the official description will help:

_A disgraced cop finds himself in a race against time to find a kidnap victim whose abductor he accidentally killed._

Aaron Eckhart stars in this, and does the best he can with a weak, basic, and run of the mill script. The real problem though is the direction, it's all over the place tonally and has some jarring moments of comedy in what sets out to be a tense race against time type movie. Imagine if every ten minutes during _End of Watch_ Jake Gyllenhaal or Michael Pena stopped and dropped an Arnold Schwarzenegger style corny one liner. Sometimes, if it's done right in a movie, it works. In _Line of Duty_, it does not work.

I was rolling my eyes all the way through this, it's a by the numbers action film, but cumulatively I couldn't help but not hate it. There's so much dumb stuff in this, whether it's the completely needless newsroom and YouTuber scenes, or the newsroom gleefully talking about their “hot exclusive” even though, as the movie reminds you 10,000 times everything was being live-streamed which means anyone could watch it and so the newsroom does not in fact have an “exclusive”. Or how when the newsroom dispatches a news helicopter to cover a house fire - a house fire, by the way, that uses some of the worst CGI fire I've ever seen - there is literally only a pilot in the helicopter. No cameraman, no reporter, just a pilot noodling along minding his own business. A pilot who, when two dudes end up in the back having a fight, with them swapping places hanging over the side, never thinks to land the chopper, or even take it closer to the ground.

The movie is full of this kind of stuff. Like I said, I rolled my eyes all the way through this, but something happens in the last five minutes that made me laugh out loud and realise that they so fully commited to it being a B movie that it may have been intentional. It's like they consciously made the decision to crank the cheese up to 11 and ride this movie off a cliff while chugging a beer and giving the world two middle fingers as they crashed in a ball of flame.

By all means watch this movie, but make sure you have a giant bowl of popcorn and that your brain has been switched to low power mode.

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