Can you forget the (too many to mention) plot holes? Not really. Still, Jones and Jackson are great

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2011)

I had wanted to see this because of the two stars Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson and their first, and as far as I can tell, only collaboration.
Tommy Lee Jones plays very much against type as a man consumed by guilt and with a serious inferiority complex. He plays it just as well as some of his baddies, like the Joker or Clay Shaw from JFK. Jackson and Jones (or as they are named here, Childers and Hodges) served in Vietnam together, and while Childers continued to serve in the field, Hodges was put behind a desk. This sound like a grade Z cop flick, doesn't it? What to remember is that neither of them feel good about what they are doing.
All I can say is that I was very puzzled by it the first time I saw this. This is definitely a film you have to see more than once. The actors make it what it is. The film, as mentioned by others, isn't that logical. I couldn't figure out how an incident could be handled the way it is shown here. Particularly, the tampering of evidence, which seems to be just swept under the carpet without anyone questioning what happened, except Hodges.
Anyway, logic is thrown out the window but this is still worth watching just to see Jackson and Jones together. The fight they have is really, really hilarious, yet still kind of disturbing. Jones delivers a closing that is both touching and believable. How could anyone find Childers guilty after that? Even to save their own behinds. The movie should have ended right there. Instead we get an epilogue where we see that all the guilty get what's coming to them.