Policja i rasizm

Very nice surprise!! Simple and straightforward, but authentic, uncomfortable, harsh and at the same time very entertaining. The film is more or less about police corruption and drug dealers going after one honest rookie, Naomie Harris, who is alone against everyone. Frank Grillo as the bad guy is awesome, the shootouts are raw and the squalor of New Orleans is captured believably. A movie full of bad guys. 7.5/10. (05.01.2020)

Excellent action thriller, I sometimes didn't breathe, because I was terribly afraid of my favorite Naomie Harris. I didn't know what I was getting into, I didn't know the content, and I was more than satisfied afterwards. I could play the nitpicker and mention some obvious flaw, but I won't do it, because the feeling of a quality action experience prevails. (29.05.2021)

Decent craftsmanship with an extremely eager and excellent performance from Naomie Harris, who proves that she can not only be a nice talisman for the new Bond films, but can reliably handle a full-blooded lead role in a gritty cop action flick that occasionally peeks like Ayer, occasionally thunders like Johannson from Sicario, but qualitatively is neither. The sometimes stilted script is saved by the ghetto feel of New Orleans and surprisingly fierce action sequences, a small plus for the straightforwardly sketched racial issues and disproportionate police behaviour, a very topical issue indeed. (11.06.2020)

A police station in the middle of a ghetto, where tensions between the police (blue) and the blacks population prevail. Things get even more complicated when someone films narcotics cops murdering teenagers. From then on it had an incredible momentum, the main character is alone against literally the whole world, the tense atmosphere and the grit of New Orleans setting along with the "dirty" filter of the camera gave it an incredible authenticity and visual rawness. I probably won't remember it in a month, but its entertainment value and its pace without a single deaf spot kept my attention incredibly easily the entire film, and that's not often you see that, thumbs up. (27.01.2020)

Training Day of Serpico in a skirt, which will have to try damn hard not to get grilled with white pepper. The hurricane-battered environment of New Orleans can confidently compete with Detroit's "charm," but alongside a fairly likable beginning, the list of positives ends there. Illogical moments hit you harder than a long ball from Drew Brees as the end approaches; cliché follows cliché, and the final graveyard confession will make many want to vomit (if they haven’t already during the sweet "sisterly" embrace). Just like in The First Purge, one can trace an attempt to address the problematic social environment, but it ultimately ends up further distorting it. The comparison to Fuqua is, I think, appropriate. His film had style, guts, and Denzel Washington; unfortunately, this one has nothing. As Alonzo would say: "Damn! I’m thirsty!" (08.01.2020)