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Stupid action movie. Bunch of cops with guns being tough guy assholes, getting in fistfights with other cops. Bunch of gunfire, might have been gunfights if anybody ever aimed at anything. There were a couple of hits, but for every hit there were like a thousand rounds sent wild.
The only redeeming feature of this movie is it illustrates a big problem caused by making narcotics illegal, i.e. the huge amount of money involved makes corruption inevitable.
Also, they have a dog trained to sniff out money. WTF? The money is not the problem, the law is the problem here.
Yes, some people's lives are ruined by their addictions, but the War On Drugs hasn't made a change there. The problem is that the American drug lords are opposed to making drugs illegal. If drugs were legalized their profits would go down. On the other hand, it drugs were legalized, they could be taxed and generate a considerable revenue stream for the government. On the gripping hand, do we really want the government to have more revenue? They can't seem to manage what they've got. I suspect all that would happen is that the corruption would move from the gangsters to the politicians. Gangsters at least seem to know how to deal with corruption. Or so Hollywood tells us.
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