At last -- an IMDb rating really close to what it should be...

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2013)

Whatta cast. Whatta movie. From beginning to end of the best cop flicks ever shot anywhere and while I gave it a perfect 10, the current IMDb rating (8.3) is pretty darn close. Crowe and Spacey, two Oscar winners in their own right, as cops, that's enough to make you want to sign up for the force yourself. The other reviewers are right, this film was CHEATED in all the awards categories that year; in decades to come, will viewers want to get seasick one more time on the Titanic -- a story where we know exactly what is going to happen before it does -- or will they want to watch this story unfold moment by moment..? To this reviewer the larger "crime" in this "crime tale" is Pearce. How good was he here as Exley? How hot is the sun? How high is the sky? He gave the single best performance of his life here and the buzz was that it would launch him into other projects...? But for some reason that never happened. Pearce did a few name films here and there (a forgettable remake of Monte Cristo for example) and even went back to AussieLand to pick up work there, but never again (sorry to say) flew the heights he flew here. Minute for minute and pound for pound, one of the best films of its kind with one of the best ensemble casts on the planet.