So much potential yet such a crap movie. The leads are great and I'm always happy to see Frank Grillo. If only their acting were framed by a decent story. As it is, it's a bunch of people stumbling through cliché after cliché. The movie follows a pair of LAPD cops doing their thing. They shoot bad men and save kids. They're lenient towards a certain drug dealer, because, you know, these guys are cool and likable. Doing their duty they stumble upon the evil deeds of criminals who are perhaps too big for mere cops to handle. Did I mention just how much inadvertent stumbling upon major criminal activities happens in this movie? Maybe that's an LAPD thing. There's one scene in particular, where Frank Grillo's character drunkenly talks to younger men in uniform, where I just couldn't bear the mind-boggling stereotypes. Someone give this man some decent material to act in instead of wasting his talent like this. For all the screen time they get it would've also helped for the Mexican gang members to be portrayed as more than just a bunch of swearing caricatures. Excessive violence and casual sexism is everywhere. It reminded me a lot of Training Day in that way; this movie's writer- director turned out to be the writer on that movie too. And then there's the documentary-style. Maybe it could've worked if it wasn't so illogical and inconsistent. But it didn't.
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