Stunning Comeback

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2005)

About half-way through, I was ready to walk out. It seemed like this movie was going nowhere that we hadn't already been. Typical "pick on the police" Hollywood garbage - portraying the bad guys as the good guys and vice-versa.
Then, the movie changed and we saw the reasons why the seemingly flawed characters, whose actions in the first half of the play were completely unflattering, behaved as they did. We were also provided moments when the earlier unflattering (and sometimes downright evil) behavior, was rendered meaningless because of newly introduced circumstances that truly tugged at my conscience and gave me a feeling of exultation at the inner workings of coincidence. In fact, it left me a feeling that there are no coincidences, that only God could intervene with new circumstances that provided the characters in the film with the second chances that could redeem their lives and give new hope to each. In the end, my heart was extremely moved to sympathy for some of the characters whom earlier I tended to condemn, and vice-versa.
I would have rated the it a 10, except for the fact that the movie still portrayed the LAPD as an overall evil and corrupt organization (an undeserved charge), and because of the excessive use of profane language (which, though realistic, is quite unnecessary).