{"id":33258,"date":"2023-07-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33258"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:16:44","slug":"copshop-2021-starring-gerard-butler-frank-grillo-alexis-louder-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33258","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Copshop&#8221; (2021) starring Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo &#038; Alexis Louder \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071223zview_copshop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Copshop <\/strong><\/em>(2021)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Joe Carnahan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Kurt McLeod, Joe Carnahan <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Mark Williams, Kurt McLeod<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Gerard Butler<\/strong>, <strong>Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss, Chad L. Coleman, Ryan O&#8217;Nan, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Robert Walker Branchaud<\/strong> and <strong>Keith Jardine<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Someone&#8217;s Gotta Take The Hit<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conman and thief, Teddy Murretto (Grillo) is on the run.\u00a0 People Murretto double-crossed have put a hit on him. As assassin Bob Viddick (Butler) closes in for the kill, Murretto gets himself arrested.\u00a0 Murretto figures he&#8217;ll be safe in the remote police lock-up.\u00a0 It sounds like a great plan until Viddick is arrested and put in the next cell.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Copshop<\/em> is such a fun ride.\u00a0 Kurt McLeod, Joe Carnahan and Mark Williams have created a story that has mystery, tons of action, twists and the right amount of humor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carnahan has assembled a great cast.\u00a0 Butler is perfect as the stoic hitman.\u00a0 Grillo is always a favorite.\u00a0 The two surprise stars for me are Alexis Louder and Toby Huss.\u00a0 Louder has charisma and star power.\u00a0 Huss is a scary riot.\u00a0 Once he appears on screen things are taken up a notch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really enjoyed <strong>Copshop<\/strong> and look forward to watching it again! (I&#8217;ve re-watched <em>Copshop<\/em> several times since my initial viewing.\u00a0 It gets better with every viewing.\u00a0 Therefore I&#8217;m upping my rating from 4 to 5 stars.\u00a0 Your mileage, as always, may vary. &#8211; Updated September 5, 2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Copshop <\/strong><\/em>(2021) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071223zview_copshop2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copshop (2021) Director: Joe Carnahan Screenplay: Kurt McLeod, Joe Carnahan from a story by Mark Williams, Kurt McLeod Stars: Gerard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39910,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions\/39910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}