Sylvester Stallone: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

2. Freddy Heflin - Cop Land (1997)

Blimey, he can act, he really can. Yep, Cop Land took a load of us by surprise by adding some realistic middle-aged spread - less Rocky, more "too many Rocky Roads" - to Stallone for this tight drama about small-town police corruption. Unlike his stomach, Sly is able to hold everything else in quite brilliantly until the moment he finally cracks and explodes towards the end of the film. Not a bad performance in most movies, but when you€™re up against Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta in the acting stakes, a ruddy marvel (by the way, that's Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, not any other Ray Liotta film). Oh, and he does the whole thing pretending to be deaf in one ear. I SAID, HE DOES THE WHOLE THING PRETE...
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