The Title Sums It Up Best.
This film is called "Internal Affairs" based on Andy Garcia's character Raymond Avilar, his IAB affiliation within the LAPD, and his investigation of corrupt cop Dennis Peck (Richard Gere). Then again, is it? I think it's a very spicy double entendre as well, in reference to the steamy sexual undercurrent that spices this Police thriller.
The mind games that go on between Gere and Garcia are intense, and thoroughly entertaining. Gere plays street cop Dennis Peck, a ruthless manipulator of his co-workers to better his own self interests, and of women for his voracious carnal needs. Despite being on his 4th marriage with kids all over, and one on the way from wife #4, played by Annabella Sciorra, he takes who he wants to bed, when he wants. Other mens wives are his favorite score of all, and he beds all his conquests concurrently. Garcia's Raymond Avilar, is investigating Peck to see exactly how he is affording all the wives and kids on a cops salary. He and partner...
One Bad Cop
Why is it that some of our best actors give their best performances when they are playing bad guys? Maybe it's the change of pace; one probably gets tired of being the hero in film after film; but they clearly seem to revel in the opportunity of playing a straight-up jerk once in a while. In "Internal Affairs", we have Richard Gere coming down off his movie idol pedestal and giving a devastating performance as Dennis Peck, a cop who gives corruption a whole new definition. This guy makes Satan look like a boy scout. He carries on a brazen affair with his partner's wife; arranges to have his partner whacked when the police department's internal affairs bureau begins investigating his partner's extracurricular activities a little too closely and his partner is about to implicate him in the mess; agrees to execute a wealthy businessman's elderly parents who are taking too long to die so that he can come into his inheritance (meanwhile seducing the businessman's wife as part of his...
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT RAMON
INTERNAL AFFAIRS is the story of a fight : the fight of a young member of the cops of the cops' team against a rotten member of the LAPD. Andy "RAMON" Garcia is hispanic, cold, married to a beautiful member of the artistic world of L.A. and dedicated to his job. Richard "DENNIS" Gere, on the contrary, is a cop with no morals at all, living with his two ex-wives and six children in the same house and enjoying the fortune he has illegally made during his spare time.
You soon understand that there is a second fight going on, the one Ramon has to carry on against himself. And the description of Ramon's stress is curiously the most interesting aspect of INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Dennis will become the broken mirror into which Ramon looks at himself. The image that Richard "Dennis" Gere reflects in the direction of Andy Garcia is vicious ; it's the image of an anglo-american living an hispanic way of life with his entire family around him. Hard to swallow...
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