646f9e108c A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care. Cuba Gooding Jr is a troubled cop in Toronto who can't get past the death of his wife and child. He crosses paths with a young kid named Mike who is being used to sell drugs for some local dealers and the kid wants out but they won't let him go. Mike takes one of several statues which is made out of heroin to be sent to LA and gives it to a priest at a local church (Christian Slater) and the dealers need the statue to complete the deal. That's pretty much it. Cuba and Slater put in very good performances in my opiniondoes the dealers father (Kim Coates.) I noticed some mistakes thoughmuch of the movie is filmed in Ottawa. The arena is actually the home of the Ottawa 67s junior team and the former AAA Ottawa Lynx baseball stadium is visible when Cuba meets Coates for the exchange at the end. The factoids were pretty meaningless too. All things considered though I did enjoy the movie The whole idea/storyline is unoriginal and screams 'Foxtel cop show', The acting at the beginning of the film was aboutconvincingthe acting in a porn movie. Cuba Gooding Jr's performance gained momentumthe movie progressed, however his character was not memorable, though that was probably due to a bad script. As for Christian Slater, he was foolishly casta priest, for which he gave a weak performance where he came offuninterested and far too smug, with a different script it might have been slightly funny, butthis is a serious movie I doubt that was the intended affect. As for the characters from the drug-ring, they were painfully stereotypical. If each character from the film had been made just a touch more clichéd, and with an edited script, it could be a satirical comedy. All in all a predictable and unmemorable movie that smacks of childishness despite it's large amount of curse words and sexual references.
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