Good start, but then it gets ruined

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This film was great on so many different levels. While the cop genre of films has been picked apart and redone so many different times this film, while not bringing anything new or fresh, did provide a level of intensity and grit that is rarely seen on film. We see Johnny Strong play a police officer who is at a point in his life who is searching for stability after a series of personal traumas have him evaluating where to go next in life. While he is dealing with his own personal issues he is thrown into a violent crime wave of murders that are taking place all over the city and he is tabbed to deal with it. Without giving anything away, Strong knocks this performance out of the water. Strong is a great actor, good face for the screen and he gives a soulful, intense performance really making the viewer identify with the struggles he is going through. Also a nod to Sean Patrick Flannery for his role in this film. He brings that BDS accent, but he does a great job of adding to the grit and realness of the film. The one unspoken star in this film for me was Method Man. While he isn't on screen very much is memorable to say the least. Set in the gritty, post Katrina city of New Orleans this film is a winner. If your looking for a film to watch that involves a good story line, solid acting and good action check it out, I definitely recommend it.

reason for 7 star; due to very low budget there were couple of scenes that missed that "extra " punch. this is a guy's movie, doubt ladies will like it unless they view it for the main protagonists (heroes and anti-heroes types).plot was quiet decent, straight up, nothing spectacular but i appreciate for not being led on by some cheesy or pointless melodramatic fill up scenes.however dialogues and acting very good for an action flick (all actors more or less look the part they play). in first half had quiet a dew nice surprises not found in almost any of the low budget action flicks.i should sum it up as a decent revenge flick of sorts.

"This is N'Awlins white boy, you ain't seen nothing' yet." After a call goes horribly bad Detective Sean Riley (Strong) is given a new partner. Trying to cope with a failed marriage, the death of his son, and a series of brutal murders that is affecting the entire city he is a very unstable officer. When clues lead to something bigger then either expected it is up to the two new partners to work together and stop the ring before it's too late. Lately the "cop revenge" movies have been very slow and not exciting to watch (Blood Out/Set Up). This one, while slow in parts, is very good. I tried as hard as I could not to compare the two, but this one reminded me of a harsher "Lethal Weapon". There really is nothing new in this movie. A loose cannon of a detective is teamed with a family man who is by the book, the two somehow can work together and yada...yada...yada. Even though this is a movie that has been done to death it is still very enjoyable and very much worth watching. I really enjoyed it. Overall, one of the few repetitive type movies that is exciting and worth a watch. I give it a B+.

Now we have a movie here, with this cool name "Sinners and saints'. Sounds interesting and promising. Have not heard about this movie before. Should it be an average movie then? Yes it is.There are two big names attached to this movie like two big cojones; "Sean Patrick Flanery" and "Tom Berenger". SPF just plays a role of 5 minutes max in the whole movie and TB maybe 10. They both die and that's that. No action in their asses, no reason to have been a part of this movie in the first place.Now we are left with the main character, this cop played by Joynnhy Strong. Nice actor, played well. But I did not hire this movie because of him. I hired this movie because of SPF and TB. So yes, I was disappointed.SPF works for a company called Spartan. He has some evidence on a tape and Russian gang members want to have this tape. The when the movie evolves, these Russian members were involved in the Amecican war. So are they Russian people or are they American people? Now this "boss" of the Russian army people, or American people, played by Costas Mandylor isn't really that scary like Gary Oldman was in Léon. He seems to want this tape because his boss wants to have this tape. Does this boss work for Spartan? Costas Mandylor is on this tape killing some soldiers. So it seems to me that Costas Mandylor wants this tape for personal reasons and not for his boss. Who was this geeky boss with this earphone who was in bed with a young lady? What was his purpose in this movie? There are lots of loose ends. This movie is a small dick with two big names attached with no reason. Acting of Kevin Phillips was terrible. Action was hilarious. A lot of shooting and, knowing that these bad guys are trained people, they missed a lot! What a waste of time.