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Dirty (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 5  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 4/10

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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,... 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, gang member-turned-cop Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) begins to question the life he and his partner Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.) have chosen. So when Internal Affairs agents investigating the division's abuses offer him a deal to come clean about the unit's misdeeds, Sancho must decide whether to heed his conscience or his loyalty to his fellow officers. On the hot, smoggy day Salim and Sancho are scheduled to testify to IA, the two rogue cops agree to run a lucrative, illegal operation for the station's top brass (Keith David and Cole Hauser). As their increasingly bloody mission takes them from one end to the other of the sprawling city they've sworn to protect and serve, Salim and Sancho learn that getting clean isn't nearly as easy as being DIRTY. From writer-director Chris Fisher (Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, Nightstalker), comes DIRTY, an edgy, suspenseful and action-packed story about a day in the life of two corrupt cops going for one final score. An adrenaline-fueled urban drama set in a decaying American metropolis, DIRTY cuts through the thin blue line between police corruption, gang violence and street justice. --© Silver Nitrate Productions [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David, Cole Hauser

Director: Chris Fisher

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Jul 1, 2008

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UMD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

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07/22/08
Robert Koehler
Variety
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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.

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03/01/07
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International
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Fisher goes a bit too over the top with a couple of conventions that I wish he'd rein in.

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10/25/06
Luke Y. Thompson
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08/26/06
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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2/4

...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.

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04/01/06
David Nusair
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We get it. All of you guys watched the Tarantino movies and you watched the Peckinpah movies. Enough, give us something original.

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02/27/06
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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2/4

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.

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02/26/06
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye
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3/5

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.

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02/24/06
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
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2/4

Even the stunningly downbeat ending smacks of sub-Tarantinoesque theatrics.

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02/24/06
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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1.5/4

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.

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02/24/06
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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1.5/4

The machinations of the plot are so murky as to be not worth following.

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02/24/06
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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The only suspense is how long it's going to take for this movie to finally drag to an end.

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02/24/06
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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2/5

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.

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02/24/06
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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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.

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02/24/06
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com
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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?

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02/24/06
Dan Fienberg
Zap2it.com
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The intentions are sincere, but you'll want to take a good shower after sitting through this mess.

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02/24/06
E! Online
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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

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02/23/06
Fred Topel
About.com
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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.

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02/23/06
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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3/4

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.

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02/23/06
John Anderson
Newsday
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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.

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02/23/06
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly
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