This follows the lives of two police recruits who end up in quite opposite positions. The first ends up as a police seargent who secretly works for the mob boss. The second becomes a mole in the mobsters gang.

The film's storyline is interesting and the lead actors play their parts very well. The dilemma facing the police is that they need to both catch the mobsters and get the mole too. The policeman actually has to become a part of the gang before he will be trusted, this means effectively becoming what he is fighting against. In the same way that Jack Bauer has to become a terrorist to stop terrorism.

There are moral arguments, either way as to whether this is right or wrong and this is an interesting topic that needs to be addressed. My problem is more with the gratuitous use of the F-word throughout. It is more than just using it as punctuation, its almost as if the writer has used it as an adjective for absolutely everything.

This would have been an intelligent and interesting film were it not for the language. The language may reflect reality in these kinds of high stress environments, but it makes it very hard to listen to.

see also:
Rambo, Lucky Number Slevin, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Wanted

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