Entertaining but nothing great

Rating: 6/10 (23 April 2006)

This movie was like a pastiche of scenes from Law and Order TV series. I like Law and Order, so this was okay for me. The "racist" cop risks his life to save the black(ish) woman, but the rare anti-racist cop kills the wayward Oreo boy, who happens to the the brother of a black detective played excellently by Don Cheadle who utters the best line of the movie: (On the difference between being "Mexican" or Puerto Rican and Salvadoran) "The mystery is: who gathered together all those remarkably different cultures and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns."
The style of plotting of this movie is similar to, but vastly inferior to, movies like Mulholland Drive, Memento and 11:14, but then also less taxing on the brains of a typical audience.