Movie Reviw of the week

We have Keanu Reeves back in a movie that's fun if not plausible. The basic premise has him playing a hard cop who spends a few crazy days hunting down the the men who framed him for his ex-police partner's murder.

Tom Ludlow (Reeves) is a widowed vice cop. His partner snitches to Internal Affairs mentioning some shady stories about Tom's past. Tom gets mad and later somebody shoots the partner dead. Tom is framed cause it all makes sense.

Tom's boss played by Forest Whitaker puts him on a desk job shuffling paperwork till the case blows over. But we can't have someone like the main character sit behind a desk. And what follows is a shooting spree to catch the killers in which many others get killed. It's bloodlust and it's popcorn fun.

The verdict:

We have actors who fit the roles for what they are intended to do. Reeves is a tough cop and he can do so without having to really act much. Whitaker on the other hand does his best and ends up providing enough acting to cover Reeves' lacking.

The movie is grim and obscenely violent at times. It shows that corruption is how the world works. While that I not a good message to impart, it does make for a more realistic setting. Of course, at the end of the movie the sort-of good guy wins so that's all good.