Una investigación de homicidio por robo desencadena una serie de eventos que harán que un oficial corrupto de LAPD cuestione sus tácticas.Una investigación de homicidio por robo desencadena una serie de eventos que harán que un oficial corrupto de LAPD cuestione sus tácticas.Una investigación de homicidio por robo desencadena una serie de eventos que harán que un oficial corrupto de LAPD cuestione sus tácticas.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Premios
- 4 nominaciones
- Eldon Perry III
- (as Chapman Russell Way)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Argumento
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- TriviaRon Shelton had originally written his directorial debut, La bella y el campeón (1988), for Kurt Russell over a decade earlier, but Orion wanted Kevin Costner for the role.
- ErroresDuring the sex scene between the young detective and Beth, their underwear is showing under the covers.
- Citas
Jack Van Meter: Get the hell down from there. While you're grandstanding here the city is starting to burn. Jimmy, for Chrissakes!
Det. Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr.: If the city is starting to burn, Jack, it's partly because of guys like you and me. And I may be a goddamm alcoholic but that doesn't mean I can't tell the truth - and I've got all the deep deep dirt right here. Somebody put the cuffs on me - let me start talking!
- ConexionesFeatured in Code Blue (2003)
- Bandas sonorasNeighborhood Sniper
Written by Michael Bell, Cold 187um (as Gregory Hutchison), Jerry Long and Paul Turner
Performed by Eazy-E
Courtesy of Ruthless Records/Priority Records
Under License from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
This film was slightly over-hyped when it came out. I agree that it is a solid cop thriller that rises above recent offerings from the genre but to give it as much praise as it garnered at the time is to give it more than it deserves. The basic plot is on two levels. On the first level the film is about police corruption and sees a corrupt house of cards teetering on the brink of collapse. This bit works well and the cop thriller element works well even if it treads familiar ground. The second level is the background of the Rodney King trial and the LA riots. This aspect is very much wallpaper and I didn't really feel it was necessary for the main narrative to work. At best it complimented the ongoing tensions between community and cops, at worst it distracts from the main thrust.
Russell does give one of his strongest performances in recent years and is not afraid to be an unsympathetic lead character. However the rest of the cast are either not as good or not as well used. Speedman has to carry most of the moral weight of the film and it is clearly too heavy for him and can't do it convincingly. Rhames is simply not used very well and is almost supplementary to requirements. Gleeson is miscast - he is an able actor but the film required him to be a generation older than Perry, in reality they were the same age more or less. Michele is sexy and is reasonably well used for a support character and Kurupt is good even if he is playing the character that he plays daily in his rapper personae.
Overall this was a superior cop thriller that was enjoyable as same. It did a reasonable job looking at the real life issues of corruption in the LAPD but not as well as perhaps other reviews would have led you to believe - it is more a wallpaper or just a theme that is used to prop up the narrative rather than a real good historic look at the time.
- bob the moo
- 1 ene 2004
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- Países de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Dark Blue
- Locaciones de filmación
- Wilmington, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(riot scenes)
- Productoras
- Ver más créditos de la compañía en IMDbPro
Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- USD 15,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 9,250,301
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 3,880,688
- 23 feb 2003
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 12,150,301
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 58 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1