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The plot of INTERNAL AFFAIRS is simple and familiar--good guy Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) works for the internal affairs division of the LAPD and has to take down Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a corrupt officer. The twist is that the film is really about social change in America. Gere plays Peck as an iconoclastic force of nature;.. Read more

Starring	Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf
Director	Mike Figgis
Genres	Thriller

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- "...Figgis has established himself as a master of steamy sex appeal....[INTERNAL AFFAIRS is] an unusally bright light..."
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- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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  Internal Affairs
  
  Taut fairly fast paced with a vicious action that keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the movie.
  
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  - Jamie
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  - 20 Feb 2005 at 16:51
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  maybe old but still a lookin in
  
  richard gere is a bent cop being investigated by the internal affairs it is a plot of cat and mouse with gere getting up to all sorts then trying to cover up ... read more »
  
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  - 21 Jul 2011 at 01:53
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  Character based film
  
  Richard Gere is great and it's an interesting play-off between him and Andy Garcia. It's a really good character based film that time has forgotten. One... read more »
  
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- - Harv
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  - London
  - 13 Oct 2009 at 16:18
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  Internal Affairs
  
  The film now looks like a straight to DVD feature, but it doesn't takeaway the menace of the performance that Richard Gere brings to this role. He's ... read more »
  
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- - SilvaSurfa
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  - London
  - 08 Jun 2009 at 16:38
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  As good as the first time I saw it
  
  I'm a Richard Gere fan to start with, and enjoyed seeing him play a smarmy character. I also thought Andy Garcia and Lori Metcalfe were good in this film... read more »
  
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  - Birmingham, England
  - 02 Apr 2009 at 21:02
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  internal affairs
  
  the film was hard to follow. If I hadn't seen other versions of it, I wouldn't have known what was going on. I preferred the latest version of it.
  
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  - Morden
  - 29 Dec 2008 at 15:09
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  classic thriller
  
  Gripping from start to finish. Richard Gere is scarily convincing.
  
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  - London
  - 02 Nov 2008 at 15:39
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  Internal affairs
  
  Good action movie better than expected
  
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- - John Davison
  - South Shields
  - 09 May 2008 at 22:29
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  Different Gere
  
  Typical Good Cop, Bad Cop film but one that has Richard Gere actually proving that he can do something apart from just an attractive charmer. Here, (yes he ... read more »
  
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- - RussnEmma
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  - Kent, England
  - 02 Feb 2008 at 09:56
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  A seriously underrated thriller
  
  I saw this movie many years ago. I enjoyed it but I wasn't paying much attention at the time. I have been waiting for ages for it to be shown again on the ... read more »
  
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  - New Milton
  - 20 Nov 2007 at 19:41
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  Good Cop...... Bad Cop ........ Internal Affairs!
  
  Internal Affairs stars Richard Gere as the cop whose bank balance is growing, that makes Andy Garcia and Laurie Metcalf suspious and a wonder that he may be a ... read more »
  
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  - 30 May 2007 at 07:29
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  Internal Affairs
  
  Taut fairly fast paced with a vicious action that keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the movie.
  
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  - Jamie
  - London
  - 20 Feb 2005 at 16:51
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  a different side of gere
  
  opposed to his sweeter side (pretty women,runaway bride)type films this see gere playing a rather nasty bent cop who makes things happen for people then ... read more »
  
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  - carmarthenshire
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 08:18
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  TOP MOVIE !!!
  
  In this glossy L.A. crime drama by Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as Sgt. Raymond Avila, a cop who just joined the Internal Affairs division of the L.A.P.D. An ... read more »
  
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  - GLASGOW
  - 19 Oct 2005 at 02:23
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  Affairs indeed
  
  A classic doppelganger film. Two men one good, one bad, fighting their cause from different ends of the spectrum. Then add a lady to stir it all up, and bring ... read more »
  
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  - 24 Jun 2004 at 16:01
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  richard affairs
  
  good acting and good story line,here richard a bad cop and andy garcia job to sort him out.two actors i admired who has been around for some time you dont see ... read more »
  
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  - 29 Jan 2006 at 23:22
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  Excellent!
  
  It is a very good film, I recomend it.
  
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  - 08 Mar 2007 at 12:29
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  Good film
  
  Not to be confused with the Asian film of the same name!
  
  This is Gere at his best, I think Dennis Peck is a great character.
  
  Mike Figgis (... read more »
  
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  - 29 Apr 2007 at 15:47
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  Good Cop...... Bad Cop ........ Internal Affairs!
  
  Internal Affairs stars Richard Gere as the cop whose bank balance is growing, that makes Andy Garcia and Laurie Metcalf suspious and a wonder that he may be a ... read more »
  
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  - Lancashire UK.
  - 30 May 2007 at 07:29
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  A seriously underrated thriller
  
  I saw this movie many years ago. I enjoyed it but I wasn't paying much attention at the time. I have been waiting for ages for it to be shown again on the ... read more »
  
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  - New Milton
  - 20 Nov 2007 at 19:41
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  Different Gere
  
  Typical Good Cop, Bad Cop film but one that has Richard Gere actually proving that he can do something apart from just an attractive charmer. Here, (yes he ... read more »
  
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- - RussnEmma
  - 320 reviews
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  - 02 Feb 2008 at 09:56

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Critics' reviews
- "...Figgis has established himself as a master of steamy sex appeal....[INTERNAL AFFAIRS is] an unusally bright light..."
- 8672
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- Gere (a brilliant return to form) plays an experienced LA street cop who clashes with the tight-assed pen-pushers from... read more on Time Out
- 43923
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:14
- "...Hypnotically directed....Gere is the essence of insinuating evil..." -- Rating: B+
- 8671
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
- Unconvincing melodrama in which loud voices substitute for passion and feeling.
- 30751
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:41
- "...The film really heats up..." -- 3 out of 4 stars
- 8673
- - USA Today
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58

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- Internal Affairs
  
  The plot of INTERNAL AFFAIRS is simple and familiar--good guy Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) works for the internal affairs division of the LAPD and has to take down Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a corrupt officer. The twist is that the film is really about social change in America. Gere plays Peck as ...