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Dark Blue
Why this pick
Like Street Kings, it follows an aggressive LAPD officer whose loyalty to a brutal unit is tested amid entrenched corruption, with a grim, street-level Los Angeles mood.
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MOVIE2008 1h 49m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a disillusioned Los Angeles Police Department Vice detective working for a unit known as Vice Special and haunted by the death of his wife. Working undercover, he meets in a parking lot with Korean gangsters who are looking to buy a machine gun from him and who he also believes have kidnapped two Korean schoolgirls. After a vicious beatdown, the Koreans steal his car. This was planned, however, and he has the cops locate the vehicle via GPS. Upon arrival at their hideout, Ludlow storms in and kills the four gangsters inside, then locates the missing children after the shootout and altering the crime scene such that he killed the gangsters by returning fire. While the other officers in his unit congratulate him, he is confronted by his former partner, Detective Terrence Washington (Terry Crews), who no longer approves of the corruption as well as the deception and has gone straight, reporting the problems to Captain James Biggs (Hugh Laurie), of Internal affairs (law enforcement), who apparently starts an investigation against Ludlow.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Keanu Reeves
Detective Tom Ludlow
Forest Whitaker
Captain Jack Wander
Hugh Laurie
Captain James Biggs
Chris Evans
Paul Diskant
Jay Mohr
Sgt. Mike Clady
Terry Crews
Detective Terrence Washington
Naomie Harris
Linda Washington
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