RAMPART—-Woody Harrelson’s uncomfortably nasty performance as a crooked, brutal cop in the notoriously scandal-ridden Rampart Division of the L.A.P.D. is the only takeaway from this douse of vice and viciousness. There’s a good cast backing him up, and the look of the film gets across a sense of the baking mean streets in that unhappy section of the southern California megalopolis. But director Oren Moverman and his co-writer, renowned crime stylist James Ellroy, just wallow in the mire, going past expose into overkill, with not much of anything to say beyond “this is awful.” Good movie to ruin your mood by.

A botched publicity campaign didn’t help, and it tanked with the public, earning but $1,568,000 against a cost of $12,000,000. Somehow, racism, misogyny, beatings, self-loathing and all-round foul shit didn’t bring out the crowds.

From 2011, with Ice Cube, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Bernthal and Bree Larson.  Woody is good, but this  108-minute dunk in slime is hard to sit through.