Orin is used to charging in and taking down the bad guys, but he first has to figure out who they are. As Westermann's original novel was set in on suburban Long Island, it had quite as many lengthy fight scenes as depicted here. The script seems to borrow from the other police scandal movies, the latest in a long line of scandals and incidents involving the Los Angeles Police Department. The cops involved in that debacle don't seem to have been quite as organized as the ones in this movie, but have allegedly perpetrated at least as much evil. Some actors just don't have the screen-time allotted to establish an image before the movie reveals where they stand.
Some scenes are downright clinical in nature.
For instance, there's this part where Orin Boyd jumps out of the careening car in time, leaving the lady driver all smashed up. His unbelievable escape from a close van, his handcuffed hands and heavily guarded by armed fellow officers will not intellectually tax the ordinary moviegoers. But then, that's what action films are made of daredevil stunts and slam bang actions. All in all, this movie promises to give what Seagal movies had been doing all these years. A good story, splendid cast of characters, and a timely moral lesson that the good will eventually triumphed over the corrupt ones.