Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Clifton Collins Jr.,
Cole Hauser,
Wyclef Jean,
Keith David
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Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. portray a pair of former gang members who trade in their colors for badges, only to discover that life on the other side of the law isn't much different than l... read more
DVD Release Date: April 4, 2006
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January 26, 2008This movie is worth watching, a time or two. But really if your looking for a great movie of this nature just watch "Training Day". This was much like that, with a lot less planning to make it truly good.
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November 30, 2007This is no Training day, it's dark, violent noir that fails to deliver in it's story. It's highly stylized but very dull with a waste of a good cast.
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September 16, 2007Really NOT bad at all, despite the fact that Cuba Gooding Jr. tries, but fails(greatly) to match Denzel's Oscar winning Training Day performance.
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August 20, 2011The pieces are there, but the execution is glaringly lacking. The editing is erratic and often nonsensical, having the feel of a PCP ride. The plot has many aspects, all with great potential, but it's so fragmented that it's difficult and frustrating to try and follow. That, in t... read more
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September 28, 2009I Started out liking it, and end up hating it, and then ended up enjoying it some more, until the heartbreaking ending.
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February 12, 2008Good film, great performances by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. This film seemed like a cross between Harsh Times, Training Day, and the tv show The Shield.
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April 25, 2010This movie is pretty mixed up. And the fine acting of Cuba Gooding Jr. is a detriment to him in all roles like this. After you see him convincingly play mentally challenged people or his goofiness in Snow Dogs or Rat Race, I can?t shake it for him to play a hardened gangster type... read more
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March 21, 2010A very intense dirty cop movie. One of Cuba's versions of TRAINING DAY, only not only he but Clifton gives a dramatic performance.
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August 16, 2008This was a good movie. I enjoy the gangster movies, and this one was actually good. Cuba was his old sef and did really well. I enjoyed Collins in this movie as well. Everything seem to flow well, and it mixed up many of the gangs in LA.
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May 10, 2008While the story was interesting in its own way. it wasn't interesting enough to care about corrupted cops. Of course Sancho did not want to get involved, but at any rate, basically a story which we didn't care about anyone in it. Perhaps they could've played up the Sancho angle s... read more
Critic Reviews
July 22, 2008
Robert Koehler, Variety
February 27, 2006
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
We get it. All of you guys watched the Tarantino movies and you watched the Peckinpah movies. Enough, give us something original. Full Review
February 24, 2006
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
This isn't a film made by someone who knows anything about cops. It's a film made by someone who's seen a lot of cop movies. Full Review
February 24, 2006
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
The machinations of the plot are so murky as to be not worth following. Full Review
February 24, 2006
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
The only suspense is how long it's going to take for this movie to finally drag to an end.
February 24, 2006
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
As good as the leads and the supporting cast are, and as much action as gets packed into the film's relatively brief running time, none of it draws us in dramatically. Full Review
February 23, 2006
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Cuba Gooding Jr. sheds the halo that has threated to strangle his career by playing a corrupt cop in a nasty little genre film set in Los Angeles.
February 23, 2006
John Anderson, Newsday
It makes Training Day seem like a film about good citizenship, but Dirty is also a luxury vehicle for two actors whose every appearance on screen is a boon. Full Review
February 22, 2006
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
At the end of the antiheroes' ropes, at the end of writer-director Chris Fisher's genre exercise, guns have been drawn, blood has been spilled, cops have been thwarted from going straight, and nothing... Full Review
February 21, 2006
Benjamin Strong, Village Voice
[Director Fisher] appears fixated on Los Angeles as a nihilistic phantasmagoria. Full Review
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