Better than average

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2002)

This better than average, hard boiled cop drama is worth seeing. Although Denzel Washington is always good, he turns in a slightly over-the-top performance that probably shouldn't have won him an academy award, as a LA vice cop who plays loose with the law. Ethan Hawke is a rookie assigned to him. In one day Hawke learns that being in blue is not as black and white as he thought it would be.