(2008)
Just... bizarre. This is supposed to be a gritty, dirty cops movie (James Ellroy has a story credit) but the casting throws you off immediately with Keanu as a hard-as-nails vice cop (I'm not down on Keanu if he's cast to his strengths, but this really isn’t one of them).
Then you have Chris Evans and Jay Mohr also as cops. Then Hugh Laurie as an Internal Affairs officer. And Forest Whitaker off the leash as the vice cops' boss. It's as if a straight-to-video cop movie has been taken over by an insane casting director with all the wrong connections.
As a whole this is so utterly nuts that it can't help but be patchily entertaining. But director David Ayer's Harsh Times is vastly superior.
Then you have Chris Evans and Jay Mohr also as cops. Then Hugh Laurie as an Internal Affairs officer. And Forest Whitaker off the leash as the vice cops' boss. It's as if a straight-to-video cop movie has been taken over by an insane casting director with all the wrong connections.
As a whole this is so utterly nuts that it can't help but be patchily entertaining. But director David Ayer's Harsh Times is vastly superior.
**1/2
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