tells Franco: "Well, there's some good news, and there's some bad news. The good news is you're right, I'm a cop and I gotta take you in. The bad news is, I've been suspended, and I don't give a fuck.", and quickly shoots Franco three times. Cast James Woods as Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins Lesley Ann Warren as Kathleen McCarthy Charles Durning as Detective Arthur "Dutch" Peltz Charles Haid as Delbert "Whitey" Haines Raymond J. Barry as Captain Fred Gaffney Randi Brooks as Joanie Pratt Steven Lambert as Bobby Franco Christopher Wynne as Jack Gibbs Jan McGill as Jen Hopkins Vicki Wauchope as Penny Hopkins Melinda Lynch as Sarah Smith John Petievich as Deputy Dennis Stewart as Lawrence "Birdman" Henderson Annie McEnroe as Amy Cranfield Production Filming began on March 9, 1987 in Los Angeles under the working title Blood on the Moon. Critical reception On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 83% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. Linda Rasmussen of AllMovie gave the film three out of five stars and described the film as a "grim, brutally violent, darkly humorous modern-day film noir," whilst noting the film's "violent and exciting conclusion". Rasmussen also noted "Cop is completely absorbing because of Woods' chillingly effective performance. Few actors can make an amoral, clever, sardonic, and vicious character as appealing as Woods. As Hopkins, Woods combines complex contradictions with ease, showing the various sides of his character's personality. Cop, while singularly unpleasant is always insightful and fascinating." Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, writing "Anyone without a history of watching James Woods in the movies might easily misread "Cop." They might think this is simply a violent, sick, contrived exploitation picture, and that would certainly be an accurate description of its surfaces. But Woods operates in this movie almost as if he were writing his own footnotes. He uses his personality, his voice and his quirky sense of humor to undermine the material and comment on it, until "Cop" becomes an essay on this whole genre of movie. And then, with the movie's startling last shot, Woods slams shut the book. It's as if Woods and Harris watched a Dirty Harry movie one night and decided to see what would happen if Harry were really dirty." Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel gave the film three out of five stars, under