***SPOILERS*** Boring police flick about an undercover agent Frank Spello, James Belushi, biting off far more the he can chew and getting whacked for doing it. It's Spello who got himself arrested and sent to prison to at fist save and then befriend Chicago Mafia Boss Big Sal, Henry Silva, from getting knifed in the prison lunchroom. It's later that Big Sal give him a job in his organization as a pizza delivery and towel boy, at a mob controlled whorehouse, when he got out of prison. No sooner then you can say Geronimo is when Spello gets himself involved with D.A Gina Gallagher, Tracy Needham, who's job it is to put the Mifia members and Columbian drug dealers behind bars! It's Gina who has a hit put on her for busting big time Colombian drug kingpin Gil Rivera, Miguel Perez, for money laundering. That after he beat a murder rap for gunning down a DEA agent and his informer in the jungles of Columbia.
As for Gina she's now in hot water in that Rivera's fellow drug dealer Jairo Jaramilo, Richard Zauaglia, is the person who put out the hit in retaliation for her sending his good friend and fellow drug kingpin Gil Rivera up the river in a federal penitentiary for life plus 150 years. It's then when Gina's very out of shape and extremely overweight, how could anyone not notice, Godfather retired Chicago detective Moe Ryan, Charles Durning,gets himself involved in order for him to keep her from getting whacked. But what's really going on is that a top member in the D.A's office Jane Newheart, JoeBeth Williams, is keeping vital information from the police in what's to come down by using an informant's information to farther her career and thus putting a number of law enforcement member in the Chicago Police Department as well as FBI & DEA men in mortal danger.
Almost impossible to follow with all the sub-plots added in the film plods along with even those in it seeming to lose interest as well as those of us watching. There's a number of shootouts and a grizzly home invasion that ends with those involved in it getting whacked by the person who ordered it before they can safely fly out of the country and back home to Columbia. About the best scene in the film is the meeting between the Columbian drug dealers and their Mafia contact Big Sal at a Chicago restaurant where the truth comes out, over a couple of cups of espresso coffee, in what's really going on between them that has to do with undercover FBI Agent Spello. It's Spello who then stupidity blew his cover as well as wire and ended up getting blasted for it.
***SPOILERS*** The really meaningless ending really didn't solve anything but only proved to us that crime does not pay but mostly for those in law enforcement who want to farther their careers at the expense of their fellow law enforcers with the criminal element free to commit their life of crime. For as long as play ball, by being snitches and informers, for those who are out to arrest and put them out of business!
As for Gina she's now in hot water in that Rivera's fellow drug dealer Jairo Jaramilo, Richard Zauaglia, is the person who put out the hit in retaliation for her sending his good friend and fellow drug kingpin Gil Rivera up the river in a federal penitentiary for life plus 150 years. It's then when Gina's very out of shape and extremely overweight, how could anyone not notice, Godfather retired Chicago detective Moe Ryan, Charles Durning,gets himself involved in order for him to keep her from getting whacked. But what's really going on is that a top member in the D.A's office Jane Newheart, JoeBeth Williams, is keeping vital information from the police in what's to come down by using an informant's information to farther her career and thus putting a number of law enforcement member in the Chicago Police Department as well as FBI & DEA men in mortal danger.
Almost impossible to follow with all the sub-plots added in the film plods along with even those in it seeming to lose interest as well as those of us watching. There's a number of shootouts and a grizzly home invasion that ends with those involved in it getting whacked by the person who ordered it before they can safely fly out of the country and back home to Columbia. About the best scene in the film is the meeting between the Columbian drug dealers and their Mafia contact Big Sal at a Chicago restaurant where the truth comes out, over a couple of cups of espresso coffee, in what's really going on between them that has to do with undercover FBI Agent Spello. It's Spello who then stupidity blew his cover as well as wire and ended up getting blasted for it.
***SPOILERS*** The really meaningless ending really didn't solve anything but only proved to us that crime does not pay but mostly for those in law enforcement who want to farther their careers at the expense of their fellow law enforcers with the criminal element free to commit their life of crime. For as long as play ball, by being snitches and informers, for those who are out to arrest and put them out of business!