A masterpiece action thriller (it's not real life bruh)

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2019)

So many people almost offended by the "that's impossible" scenes from this movie just can't enjoy things.
At no point I ever thought "oh this is like real life but onscreen and the director is denouncing police corruption".
It is very obvious, intended by the director/writer or not, that the movie USES real life problems (corruption at every level, starting for the street drug dealers and ending in the judicial system that benefits from it), and like many other great fun movies puts it all together to create and intoxicatingly fun ride of a movie.
The fact that Washington, Scott Glenn and the supporting cast gives the characters that much charisma just makes it better, perfect.
Some people are bothered by the ending not being realistic enough and too "happy" or something like that. I personally love bleak films, but expecting a bleak ending from a pretty dark thriller speaks more on the persons expecting than anything else. The ending was fine and not more impossible than the rest of a movie that doesn't make an attempt to recreate life.