'Mob Cops' Review: David Arquette Leads a Mafia Movie That Makes an Offer You Can Refuse

Police corruption is a major social danger, and some of the best films in history have featured dirty cops as key antagonists. Chinatown portrays the entire justice system as under the thumb of the rich and powerful. Training Day features one of film history's best dirty cop portrayals in Denzel Washington's Alonzo. Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy features many corrupt officers, while The Departed follows a cop who's a mole for the Irish Mob, and Serpico sees an idealistic New York cop take on corruption within the NYPD. These fictional cases aside, one of the most infamous stories of police corruption in history was that of Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, a pair of NYPD officers who spent decades working for the mafia before receiving life sentences after their retirement. Mob Cops is based on that story, building up to the exciting sting that brought them to justice, but which otherwise fails to stand out.