Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Overrated and overhyped

Just perfect...

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Awful movie about a bunch of idiotic trigger happy cops in New Orleans, has very little point or direction to it, and tries to lure people into watching it by featuring some big named stars (albeit washed up ones). Sharon Stone, Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn make a wage, and 50 cent proves once again that he can't act. Stone looks good for a woman in her 50s but really shows how far she has fallen from being A list material with this direct-to-video mess. Same can be said of Kilmer I suppose. Maybe worthy of a bunch of ten year olds who like to watch mindless gory violence and have little comprehension of plot lines and script. Idiotic and absurd, a true waste of time. Shows how far modern movies have fallen.

Good emoting, but unrealistic. None of the gangs post any guards. At the end, when the four musketeers sneak into the trailer park, all the bad guys are clustered around a fire. No guards, no dogs, nothing. Everyone stands straight up so they can make better targets. When the Captain sees his assassin, he stands there as he reaches for his pistol, never thinking of hitting the dirt. Of course, no one noticed the killers' car, with them sitting inside it, sitting in front of his house on an otherwise deserted street. Sharon Stone, wearing the same white scoop-neck blouse that she has worn throughout the film, asks Kilmer if his partner shot himself. Given that Kilmer shot 50-cent in the back, with his (Kilmer's) own pistol, 50-cent would have had to be a contortionist. And, I guess, no one will ever run a ballistics check on Kilmer's gun. In New Orleans, no cop is ever suspended until a panel has reviewed his killing someone. Not realistic.

I am really disappointed in this film. Seeing the premise in it's description it sounded like it had a lot of potential. Val Kilmer is generally a good actor and he is not horrible in this however the plot is so confusing that it really doesn't do him justice as an actor. Sharon Stone's accent is so bad, it upstages her performance which really could have been anyone. That part didn't even warrant star billing. I don't have a problem with 50 cent. I think for who he is, playing this part was a stretch and it shows that maybe he is developing some range as an actor.Overall the plot is just too confusing and the story seems to roam around finding itself. I still do not understand the end in that it didn't seem to be set up well in the earlier stages of the film. As I said, lot's of potential.. obviously a poorly written script.

Val Kilmer and 50 Cent are cops working for a corrupt Narcotics division operating throughout crime-ridden parts of Nawlins, having to deal with dirty FBI agents led by Michael Biehn. Jose Pablo Cantillo and Brian Presley are also Narcotics officers, but more crooked and less organized when they hunt down criminals..they are essentially loose cannons who take drugs and dirty money from gangsters they either kill or maim. Barry Shabaka Henley is a weary and worn Police Captain who must contend with Biehn who wishes for his men to be arrested so that their outlawing methods would not interfere with his unscrupulous activities. Someone among the four is a rat who has been snitching to the FBI about their less-than-law-abiding efforts to destroy gangs, the drug trafficking, among other affairs that have been polluting the city. Sharon Stone is a department psychiatrist trying to understand the four Narcotics officers, attempting to figure their motives and actions, hoping to steer the men in the right, not wrong, direction. Ugly, brutal film with few, if any, redeeming qualities, as we witness a vile and grim view of crime and how it affects the characters studied. I think this is a case where the shaky cam digital camera works because nothing about this bleak world we are entering should be presented in a beautiful form. The camera is all over the place, barely ever still..there's not a composed shot any longer than maybe five or so seconds, I'd guess. Choosing sides isn't that easy as the characters are all flawed, and even the real hero, played by Kilmer(..motivated to take out the scum due to his father's unsolved murder, himself a cop), doesn't await a warrant to enter the premises of known gang bangers, knowing that the methods required to getting one may take too long, understanding that if he and his partner doesn't stop them while they have a chance, there may never be a better time. The film vividly explores what police work on these unapologetically downtrodden streets can do to the psyche of those whose underpaid jobs are to "protect and serve." The cast really gives it their best, even 50 Cent..Kilmer's a real rock that anchors them. Plenty of gang violence with bodies riddled with bullets, excessive profanity(..as to be expected), and prostitution..this is a disturbing portrait that might leave many wanting to take a shower. The filmmakers, although the camera work is often close up on the faces of the characters, get a lot of value out of the setting, in Louisiana. The gang for which Kilmer and company are up against, named the Latin Kings, are actually funded by Biehn, and they are allowed to work from FEMA trailers!