Dirty (2005)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 5 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 20, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: In a city ravaged by violent crime, the police department's anti-gang task force uses any means at its disposal to get the bad guys off the streets, with cops often acting as judge, jury and executioner. As the unit's self-justifying brutality and corruption spiral further out of control,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David, Cole Hauser
Director: Chris Fisher
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07/22/08
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Dirty is a solid ride, and deserves recognition if only because it affords Gooding the chance to reaffirm his acting chops.
03/01/07
Fisher goes a bit too over the top with a couple of conventions that I wish he'd rein in.
10/25/06
...although Dirty isn't much better than some of his earlier efforts, one can't help but admire Gooding Jr's willingness to portray such an irredeemably nasty character.
04/01/06
We get it. All of you guys watched the Tarantino movies and you watched the Peckinpah movies. Enough, give us something original.
02/27/06
Top Critic
DIRTY boasts about a wayward police drama that needs considerable conscientious washing. Sadly, this perfunctory scrub job simply attacks the same old neglected stained areas.
02/26/06
The cinematography of Eliot Rockett is also laudable: The city is not only rendered in the usual hot and gritty texture of urban landscapes, but is imbued with sense of oppression that is palpable.
02/24/06
Even the stunningly downbeat ending smacks of sub-Tarantinoesque theatrics.
02/24/06
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.
02/24/06
Top Critic
The machinations of the plot are so murky as to be not worth following.
02/24/06
Top Critic
The only suspense is how long it's going to take for this movie to finally drag to an end.
02/24/06
Top Critic
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.
02/24/06
Top Critic
As the villain, Wyclef Jean exercises an impression-as-accent of John Malkovich’s character from Rounders in turn impersonating a member of the Jamaican bobsled team.
02/24/06
Capturing LA as a sepia-toned, sunbaked wasteland just isn't fresh. Why must every LA cop drama take place on the hottest day of the year just as the city is about to explode?
02/24/06
The intentions are sincere, but you'll want to take a good shower after sitting through this mess.
02/24/06
While I have no doubt that real corrupt cops use language like this, it sounds like these actors don't actually know what the words mean. They sound like eighth graders... like Anthony Anderson and Taye Diggs in Malibu's Most Wanted pretending not
02/23/06
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.
02/23/06
Top Critic
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.
02/23/06
Top Critic
Like the best pulp, though, it gets its hooks into you faster than you can start to wonder why you should possibly care about what happens to any of its despicable characters, and, before you know it, you’ve been pulled deep into its Dantean vision.
02/23/06
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