A no-nonsense dramatic response to the LAPD Rampart scandals of the '90s.
Dirty (2005)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:2
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... 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]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David, Cole Hauser, Wyclef Jean, Tory Kittles, Robert LaSardo, Gates McFadden, Chris Mulkey, Judy Reyes, Khleo Thomas, Brian White, Aimee Garcia, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Grevioux, Wood Harris, Lobo Sebastian
Director: Chris Fisher
Director: Chris Fisher
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Reviews for Dirty
We get it. All of you guys watched the Tarantino movies and you watched the Peckinpah movies. Enough, give us something original.
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.
The machinations of the plot are so murky as to be not worth following.
The only suspense is how long it's going to take for this movie to finally drag to an end.
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.
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.
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.
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 has changed.
[Director Fisher] appears fixated on Los Angeles as a nihilistic phantasmagoria.
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