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Dirty
Two gangbangers turned cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 5.5 |
Studio : | Silver Nitrate, Deviant Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Clifton Collins Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr. Keith David Cole Hauser Wood Harris |
Genre : | Drama Thriller Crime |
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This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
i enjoy this film i bought this movie from shop it was Awesome but i wish it did it better like Training Day, End of Watch there is no great camera shots' but with (Cuba Gooding Jr) Salim Ade but i thought Cuba Gooding's character is more comfortable being dirty than his latino partner (Clifton Collins Jr), who has visions that are representative of his guilt. Cuba Gooding Jr as actor i liked his movies a lot of them he made. i enjoy Clifton Collins Jr well on his way to blowing in the entire department to Internal Affairs out of some misguided sense of guilt he's first family is gangster become a cop A really strong performance from Clifton Collins Jr, combined with an excellent bad cop come good cop story. Salim is an idiot and makes a number of dense-headed decisions in this movie that lead to a world of sh#4t apart of being cop i think the Action Scenes were Awesome but what that should been longer action scenes like Training Day noting is new in this movie just didn't make it not in top film like Training Day 2 cops were kinda breaking the law but Salim is breaking the law more at end he feels sorry cry's like girl he should be as character, becomes more of idiot. i like the idea that they try to make it like Training Day Cuba is trying to act so hard to be like Denzel Washington character i can tell the bad things on his character what he does that's why the director and producer maybe wanted to make his character like that like Cuba's character mutters constant swear words like Denzel Character in Training day the colors of movie was a bit like Training Day but the colors was more bit weird as i thought it wasn't same but there is action scenes were good i thought it was good that there is some another actors were OK i guess Movie like Cole Hauser is OK didn't do much for this movie but you got 2 actors from Pitch Black. Movie was a little slow moving. You also get the feeling the movie tried too hard to push the idea of corruption to the point where you question the likelihood of something happening. this still has people who are looking for real ideas on movie but not he best as Training Day this movie 10.10 i think it was very good but should of done it better
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clifton Collins Jr. heading a cast that includes Keith David and Cole Hauser? What could go wrong? Dirty follows Cuba and Clifton, playing dirty undercover cops that steal, harass white people, do drugs, and swear, yep, pretty much what Denzel did in Training Day. Keith David and Cole Hauser play their oblivious superiors.This was such an obvious knockoff of Training Day...everything about this film breathed it. Cuba can't live up to the ironic class that Denzel had, and Clifton, while a very good actor, has nothing on Ethan Hawke.The lines were horribly clichéd, the plot was aimless and difficult...it only gets 3 stars because I'm a fan of this cast, despite their horrible agents.See Training Day-for the first time or again-before you see Dirty.
Some reviewers have compared "Dirty" to "Training Day", but the similarity ends with the fact that the protagonists are police officers. In my opinion the treatment of "Dirty" is far too complex compared to "Training Day". It has been a long while that I have seen a film that cranked up the ante to a degree that you can't tell what is going to happen next (and most certainly not because the film was lacking in clarity). "Dirty" is a glimpse into the dark underworld of lawless police officers competing with hard core inner city gangsters of African-American and Hispanic origin. It also peripherally shows how teenagers get involved in this cesspool.Clifton Collins Jr.'s playing the conscience plagued character of police officer Armando is deep and wrenching. His conflict was completely palpable to this viewer. And this conflict is the film's centrally redeeming aspect where a rash and irresponsible act is shown to have inner consequences for Armando's character, possessed as he is with "the better angels of our nature".Cuba Gooding's character is impulsive, juvenile, rash and highly distracting both in demeanour and actions throughout the film. He is the psychopath of the piece. Despite this his character is quite straightforward. He enjoys throwing his weight around because HE wears the uniform, but can't handle his power even as a bad cop.There are moments when the action gets confusing e.g. the "Nantucket" situation, but it was meant to be a chaotic scenario as none of the characters quite fully knows what has happened to others.I truly enjoyed the ritualistic element of the Hispanic gangsters, the white coat, the symbolism of the death masks, philosophizing of the lead gangster at the end whose dialogue delivery was intelligently enunciated, with none of the stereotypical Hispanic accent. This simple device I thought brought credibility to the gang leader's character. And the strange version of Russian roulette was intriguing.The coming together of the dark fantasy element (with commonplace everyday lives of the two officers) when Armando has flashbacks of his actions, as well right at the end when he is shown seated next to Cuba Gooding's character was I thought very nicely done.Many reviewers here didn't like the film at all. I think it is just too raw a film, and its grittiness can become jarring for some viewers e.g. the constant profanity, which I think is an integral part of the lives of such characters. But to others it may distract them from following the film.I thought it was an excellent film...it likely won't make good or entertaining viewing for those who are not into film noir. But for those who are, it is an excellent film.
Collins is one of my favorite actors, and Gooding has shown that he is a major talent. While they both portrayed their characters well, I thought the whole thing was a waste. I saw it on cable TV where it was described as a "gritty" police drama. Gritty to me means that it shows how life really is, warts and all, and it isn't pretty. This wasn't gritty; it was sordid. It was *way* over the top in portraying police corruption. Are there corrupt cops? Sure, go ahead and portray them, it would be interesting. But these characters, particularly Gooding's, were so far beyond corrupt that it became ludicrous instead of unveiling corruption. There wasn't a single interaction Gooding's character had, that wasn't a betrayal, a lie, a theft, an insult, an act of violence, or a molestation. The word "mother******" was probably used four hundred times. Watching it, instead of being an interesting drama, just became depressing. Collins' character showed signs of a conscience, and of gradually being corrupted, and was the more believable of the two. I really hate to see great talent like this wasted.