Rampart is one mess of a movie that guts by (barely) on the merits of Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers, Transsiberian). I can’t say it’s worth the watch because of him, but it would have been an excruciating two hours had he not been the star. Its 76% approval rating on www.rottentomatoes.com is somewhat alarming, considering how incoherent and inconsistent the script was. This was a must-see movie when I saw that it was reuniting Harrelson with director Oren Moverman. The two struck gold with Moverman’s directorial debut, 2009’s The Messenger. That movie had a purpose. It had believable drama. It had a meaningful storyline. Never did it cause you to ask yourself, “Huh?” or “What just happened?” or “How are these characters getting away with all they are getting away with?” Instead, Rampart ends up being just one jumbled, incoherent disaster.
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