RAMPART is a cop drama that frustrates me.  It is a slow moving and sometimes even boring movie.   It focuses too much on building the character of "Rape Date" Dave Brown (a nickname he got due to rumors he killed a rapist who was acquitted by the courts) instead of finding a really compelling story to ground the character in.   The film takes place in 1999 Los Angeles after the Rampart police scandal.   Dave Brown works in the Rampart division and his life starts going downhill after a person captures on video of Dave beating a person (after that person's car crashes into Dave's police car).   Dave admits no guilt and doesn't want to atone for his crimes because he is a cop that will never change his brutal police methods or his womanizing ways (he gets involved with a defense attorney while living in an unusual living situation with his kids, wife, and ex-wife).   The three things that RAMPART has going for it are the actors involved and their acting, the over-saturated and high contrast look of the Alexa camera, and showing Los Angeles in a different way from many of the other films that have shot in LA over 100 years.   I wish I could say the script from James Ellroy and co-writer/ director Oren Moverman.   Woody Harrelson is excellent as Dave Brown, but again his character would have been better served with a more refined script that engaged me.   The central character has no moral center to ground him and I wish they have focused more on heightening the damage Dave's actions cause and give us (the audience) a story that doesn't make me want to fast forward through parts of it (I'm guilty of fast forwarding through slow parts of the movie and I still could follow the story).