Should've been an independent movie - Warner messed it up.

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2002)

Interesting moral dilemma.
About the first half way through the movie, the premise was bright. A moral story. A rookie who spends a day training with his new boss narcotics agent discovers that the ways that his boss roots out evil aren't exactly godly. This reminded me of Boiler Room, because in both movies the `rookie' is forced to make a decision between the morality he has and what is being presented to him as moral. I've never seen Denzel Washington use such foul language. But in the second half, it just fell flat on it's face.  NO SPOILERS, don't worry. - It looked as if Warner Brothers had forced Village Roadshow pictures to slap on the ending that they did because the moral fable just wasn't enough  that W.B. wanted it to appeal to lower brow audience, perhaps. Maybe that's why there is such unnecessary violence throughout the movie. In fact, the ending  no spoilers included  stylized as to look dramatic, but really it is just low-brow. Should've been an independent movie without the financial backing from WB as WB messed it up.