Serious Storyline Flaw

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Some of the scene depicted the streets in an exciting way, but the storyline was so flawed it took the rest of the movie down with it.
There was NO reason for Denzel Washington to involve Ethan Hawke in any of his dirty doings at all. What kind of killer-crook involves an innocent person ( Hawke ) and then kills someone in front of him hoping he'll take the blame for it??? Absurd! Denzel should have offed Scott Glenn himself privately and taken all the money. All he basically did was pluck an innocent person out of the police academy and make him a witness to a zillion crimes when Denzel already had enough legitimate dirty goons around to do whatever he wanted. It was completely unnecessary.