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Dirty

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Dirty (2005)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:6

Rotten:21

Average Rating:4.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: In a city ravaged by violent crime, the police department's anti-gang task force uses any means at its disposal to get the bad guys off the streets, with cops often acting as judge, jury and... In a city ravaged by violent crime, the police department's anti-gang task force uses any means at its disposal to get the bad guys off the streets, with cops often acting as judge, jury and executioner. As the unit's self-justifying brutality and corruption spiral further out of control, gang member-turned-cop Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) begins to question the life he and his partner Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.) have chosen. So when Internal Affairs agents investigating the division's abuses offer him a deal to come clean about the unit's misdeeds, Sancho must decide whether to heed his conscience or his loyalty to his fellow officers. On the hot, smoggy day Salim and Sancho are scheduled to testify to IA, the two rogue cops agree to run a lucrative, illegal operation for the station's top brass (Keith David and Cole Hauser). As their increasingly bloody mission takes them from one end to the other of the sprawling city they've sworn to protect and serve, Salim and Sancho learn that getting clean isn't nearly as easy as being DIRTY. From writer-director Chris Fisher (Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, Nightstalker), comes DIRTY, an edgy, suspenseful and action-packed story about a day in the life of two corrupt cops going for one final score. An adrenaline-fueled urban drama set in a decaying American metropolis, DIRTY cuts through the thin blue line between police corruption, gang violence and street justice. --© Silver Nitrate Productions [More]

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Clifton Collins, Brittany Daniel, Keith David, Cole Hauser, Wyclef Jean, Tory Kittles, Robert LaSardo, Gates McFadden, Chris Mulkey, Judy Reyes, Khleo Thomas, Brian White, Aimee Garcia, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Grevioux, Wood Harris, Lobo Sebastian

Director: Chris Fisher

Director: Chris Fisher

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At the end of the antiheroes' ropes, at the end of writer-director Chris Fisher's genre exercise, guns have been drawn, blood has been spilled, cops have been thwarted from going straight, and nothing has changed.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
02/22/06
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

[Director Fisher] appears fixated on Los Angeles as a nihilistic phantasmagoria.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
02/21/06
Benjamin Strong
Benjamin Strong
Village Voice

A barely passable cop morality tale. But still passable.

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02/20/06
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Another Cuba Gooding Jr. dud. Don't show him the money -- show him the door!

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02/20/06
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

It is so biased that it doesn’t inspire the outrage that Fisher obviously intended.

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02/18/06
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

Chris Fisher's Dirty is clumsier and less earnest than Crash, but it's every bit as totalitarian.

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02/17/06
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Not entirely successful, but it's as twisted as a James Ellroy novel, and it may please genre fans who don't require the transubstantiation of spilled blood into the holy water of redemption.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
01/20/06
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
 
 
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