| RATING: | 20% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
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Dull and unimaginative crime drama from the usually-reliable Michael Mann. Featuring death-worshipping performances resulting from an under-written script and a sense that Mann is simply repeating old material from the original tv series because he has simply run out of new ideas. We get no real sense of what it is like to go undercover and deal with drug traffickers and the White supremacist subplot is imply distracting when it could make a good film in its own right.
The issue of actors playing police officers playing criminals is never meaningfully explored in a way that could have made the drama resonant and involving. And as usual with so many US crime films, the good guys and the bad guys are so mannered that you can see who the villains are from the get-go.
There is little sense of guns being fired by sentient beings, but of guns firing themselves. The tail-wagging-the-dog style just completely overwhelms the content and it is a very great shame to see the magnificent Gong LI in a bad film. Somewhere in all this mess there is a great romance, but it is lost in a welter of semi-automatic gunfire and affectless profanity.
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