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Year:	2001
Country of origin:	USA / Australia
Director:	Antoine Fuqua
Genre:	Corrupt cop thriller
Starring:	Denzel Washington , Ethan Hawke
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/
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I don't care. I'll admit it. I have a huge dude crush on Denzel Washington.
That man is so damn sexy, I could scoop him up with a ladel and serve him with treacle. I'd let him touch me in ways that no other man would be allowed.
All that aside, this is a damn fine movie, as packed full of testosterone as a rugby teams' changing room at half time.

The lovely Denzel plays Alonzo, a hard nosed narcotics cop who is more than happy to break the law if it means getting his man.
Ethan Hawke plays Jake, a first day newbie out to learn the ropes. What he doesn't expect is that, in agreeing to embroil himself in the shady world of drug enforcement, he will be asked to become a criminal himself nor that, the biggest crook he will meet all day is his own mentor.

Hawke and Washington play off each other superbly, their interchange, constantly barbed, a source of engagement throughout.
Making sweeping statements about the politics of policing throughout, this is a thinking mans thriller, providing no easy answers, and not afraid to give the viewer a hard ride. Shot with a light filter on the lens, this is searing and unrelenting, depicting a world of corruption, bribery and misinformation that is frankly terrifying.
Washington seems to be having the time of his life, and Hawke seems equally pleased to be along for the ride, the machismo bristling between the two of them as fraught as the opening scene in No Girls Allowed 4: Boy Heaven.
Whilst it could be argued that some of the characterisation is a little suspect - next to no-one has any redeeming features aside from Jake - this is still muscular, complex, intelligent thriller movie making of the highest order.
Simply excellent.