a special unit of four police detectives are dispensing justice in their own unique way in 1950s los angeles. nick nolte plays max hoover and the unit lead officer and his partners are played by michael madsen and chazz palminteri and chris penn. also starring are melanie griffith and jennifer connelly and john malkovich among others. quite an impressive list of names. unfortunately that is the only thing even remotely impressive about this film. our story begins when young allison pond and played by connelly and turns up dead in a remote area of town currently under development. our band of four detectives is called in and it is immediately obvious that nolte max hoover is going to be taking a very personal interest in this case. we will soon find out that allison and in addition to knowing hoover quite well and was also involved with some rather important military and government types who may have had reason to want her dead. but who exactly was involved and why exactly would they want this seemingly harmless woman dead. hoover and crew set out to find out. sounds like an interesting premise but unfortunately it goes nowhere. despite the impressive array of names and the acting here leaves much to be desired. nolte is overacting and madsen seems incredibly bored and palminteri and malkovich come off as caricatures and penn has hardly anything to do and griffith is dull as can be. by far the best performance is connelly in all too fleeting flashback sequences. the dialogue throughout the film is forced and wooden. the sense of drama you would expect from a mystery of this type is missing altogether. nothing dramatic really happens. in fact nothing at all seems to happen for the bulk of the picture. instead we just slog along towards a rather ludicrous and incredibly disappointing climax. when the mystery is solved you may find yourself saying and oh come on now and is that all there is. but it gets worse as after the mystery is solved we get a completely ridiculous and utterly unbelievable action sequence. and even then we are made to suffer further as another awful and badly acted and completely unnecessary scene is tacked on at the end. and then mercifully it is over. and not a moment too soon. 
a special unit of four police detectives are dispensing justice in their own unique way in 1950s los angeles. nick nolte plays max hoover and the unit lead officer and his partners are played by michael madsen and chazz palminteri and chris penn. also starring are melanie griffith and jennifer connelly and john malkovich among others. quite an impressive list of names. unfortunately that is the only thing even remotely impressive about this film. our story begins when young allison pond and played by connelly and turns up dead in a remote area of town currently under development. our band of four detectives is called in and it is immediately obvious that nolte max hoover is going to be taking a very personal interest in this case. we will soon find out that allison and in addition to knowing hoover quite well and was also involved with some rather important military and government types who may have had reason to want her dead. but who exactly was involved and why exactly would they want this seemingly harmless woman dead. hoover and crew set out to find out. sounds like an interesting premise but unfortunately it goes nowhere. despite the impressive array of names and the acting here leaves much to be desired. nolte is overacting and madsen seems incredibly bored and palminteri and malkovich come off as caricatures and penn has hardly anything to do and griffith is dull as can be. by far the best performance is connelly in all too fleeting flashback sequences. the dialogue throughout the film is forced and wooden. the sense of drama you would expect from a mystery of this type is missing altogether. nothing dramatic really happens. in fact nothing at all seems to happen for the bulk of the picture. instead we just slog along towards a rather ludicrous and incredibly disappointing climax. when the mystery is solved you may find yourself saying and oh come on now and is that all there is. but it gets worse as after the mystery is solved we get a completely ridiculous and utterly unbelievable action sequence. and even then we are made to suffer further as another awful and badly acted and completely unnecessary scene is tacked on at the end. and then mercifully it is over. and not a moment too soon. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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