I purchased this film under the title "Blue Jean Cop" and the police corruption storyline is a genre that interests me particularly in the film Q&A and countless others.
Peter Weller stars as a defence attorney with idealistic values defending a drug dealer who killed an undercover cop in self-defence. The victim happened to be a "blue jean cop" - an apparent corrupt policeman who makes dirty money by stealing from drug dealers. This opens a can of worms when investigated further by Weller and he teams up with veteran cop Sam Elliott to bust the corruption and win his case.
It all sounds interesting in theory but the way the film was delivered was all over the place. Side stories includes Weller being on his last case before a move upwards on his career in his father-in-law to be's firm. Then there's the old girlfriend scenario with the prosecutor, having an affair despite having a fiancée and looking for a new house blah blah blah. It was like an over-the-top soap opera with swearing.
And add to this the corrupt cops and their shenanigans working with the local crime boss to prevent cover-up being blown. These scenes were like bad comedy especially with the over-the-top vulgarness to demonstrate that these guys were "bad".
I'm a sort of man who usually watches the film in its entirety even if I feel it's a bit rotten. Despite it being only 90 minutes long the last half hour drags on and ironically has a very brief epilogue to counteract it.
I would avoid this unless you have company and fancy a cheap laugh at the film's 1980s tackiness with mullet hairstyles and noisy ghetto-blasters amongst the so-called drama.
Peter Weller stars as a defence attorney with idealistic values defending a drug dealer who killed an undercover cop in self-defence. The victim happened to be a "blue jean cop" - an apparent corrupt policeman who makes dirty money by stealing from drug dealers. This opens a can of worms when investigated further by Weller and he teams up with veteran cop Sam Elliott to bust the corruption and win his case.
It all sounds interesting in theory but the way the film was delivered was all over the place. Side stories includes Weller being on his last case before a move upwards on his career in his father-in-law to be's firm. Then there's the old girlfriend scenario with the prosecutor, having an affair despite having a fiancée and looking for a new house blah blah blah. It was like an over-the-top soap opera with swearing.
And add to this the corrupt cops and their shenanigans working with the local crime boss to prevent cover-up being blown. These scenes were like bad comedy especially with the over-the-top vulgarness to demonstrate that these guys were "bad".
I'm a sort of man who usually watches the film in its entirety even if I feel it's a bit rotten. Despite it being only 90 minutes long the last half hour drags on and ironically has a very brief epilogue to counteract it.
I would avoid this unless you have company and fancy a cheap laugh at the film's 1980s tackiness with mullet hairstyles and noisy ghetto-blasters amongst the so-called drama.