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In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is connected to an extensive underground terrorist ring, he joins forces with the FBI on a massive five-state hunt. Based on a true story.
| Release : | 1995 |
| Rating : | 6.1 |
| Studio : | Patchett Kaufman Entertainment, World International Network (WIN), |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Adam Arkin Nicholas Turturro Melissa Leo Stephen Root Dean Norris |
| Genre : | Drama Thriller Crime |
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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
HUNT FOR JUSTICE is one of many TV movies from the IN THE LINE OF DUTY series, all of them based on fact. Each film is fairly low budget and plays out events in a grittily realistic way and this one is no exception. The hunt is on for a gang of terrorists who have murdered a cop in the line of duty, and middle-aged Adam Arkin is leading the squad. The best thing about this film is the cast which is made up of endless familiar faces. Miguel Ferrer, Dean Norris, John Carroll Lynch, Melissa Leo and Stephen Root are welcome presences in any production and they're typically solid here, making this more watchable than most TV movies despite the deficiencies of the scripting.
Really even though as one reviewer says that the terrorists despite being what they were, despite doing wrong and were in need of being brought to justice. Came off with sympathy and had families that they wanted to feed. Even though you weren't suppose to sympathize with them.It is the arrogant attitude of the feds that ruined the movie for it seems people like m.Arkin's arrogant agent, as all federal agents that Hollywood makes them out to be butted heads with state cop Turturro. As he threatened to arrest Turturro but Arkin was really interfering into not letting Turuturro do his job.Even though it started out with them butting heads, Arkin realized he needed the state cop's help and in the end, they worked out well. As Turturro knows the place and if they had an agent that was from there, it might had helped despite Arkin's character being from Boston.Really it proved it was the typical cops vs feds stuff. Not good but not bad.
i know tommy manning personally from many years ago. Mr. Ferrer was not like tommy at all. i think he did a pretty good job at portraying him though but, it was not real to me because i knew him. the movie was slow and undramatic. Mr. Manning is still of the same mindset that he was back in the days of committing the crimes. he is a prisoner at leavenworth and will remain there for a long time. he will have a hearing for parole in the year 2010. i personally do not think that he will get parole due to his unchanged attitude. although i liked him way back in the 60's, he hasn't learned that violence is not the answer. i would like to see the movie redone with a little more drama.
This movie was on one of those premium channels, the kind you have to pay extra for. The storyline read real good. After watching it for about 10 minutes it looked really cheaply made. Sure enough, this was nothing more than a TV Movie passed along as a real movie. The plot I have seen before many times in better movies. There was absolutely no chemistry between any of the actors who looked as though they had just read their lines just before walking on the set.
