Dirty (2005)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Chris Fisher

Writers:

Chris Fisher (written by)
Gil Reavill (written by)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Violence Is A Language People Understand

Plot:

Two gangbangers-turned-cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.

Plot Keywords:

Partners | Gang | Internal Affairs | Police | Drug Dealer

Cast

Frank Alvarez	...	Gangster #1
Clifton Collins Jr.	...	Officer Armando Sancho
Brittany Daniel	...	Tatiana
Keith David	...	Captain Spain
Robert Flores	...	Gangster #4
Aimee Garcia	...	Rita
Cesar Garcia	...	Gangster #3
Nicholas Gonzalez	...	Officer Rodriguez
Cuba Gooding Jr.	...	Salim Adel
Kevin Grevioux	...	Daddy
Wood Harris	...	Brax
Cole Hauser	...	Lieutenant
Wyclef Jean	...	Baine
Pat Healy	...	Ronnie
Tory Kittles	...	Wallace

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexual content and drug use.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Finland:K-15 (video rating) (2006) | Australia:MA | Argentina:16 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #42125) | Singapore:M18 | Norway:15 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | Netherlands:12 (TV version) | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Arclight Cinemas - 6360 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

2710 Inc.

Trivia:

The game that the drug-dealing white "jokers", that according to Baine doesn't fit the profile, is playing when Sancho and Adel busts through the door is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) (VG), a game in which actor Clifton Collins Jr. (Sancho) does one of the main characters voices.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Officer Armando Sancho: You see things more clearly when you're dead.

Movie Connections:

References Taxi Driver (1976)

Soundtrack:

I'll Remember You

no hope

there was a review quote " If you liked " Traing Day " then you will like this. No, its way past Training Day in violence. Way past anything I've seen in the gritty reality stakes. A bad part of Los Angeles, where the population, it seems to me, is split between predators and prey.... and even the prey are opportunists who will turn to crime when it suits them. Thats the message of this movie. A corner of Tinseltown where civilisation does not exist, where anarchy rules, where the police are the most powerful criminal gang and will do anything to stay there. Everything's corrupt, except possibly the impotent Internal affairs office. Police officer played by Cuba Gooding Jr says to his partner played by Clifton Collins Jr. " Don't you get it ? there ARE no gangs, we've got rid of them all and WE are the only gang left " A good movie, but one that left a strong feeling of foreboding in me, and a realisation that all of us depend on a very thin veneer of civilisation, which, when overstressed can collapse in ruins.