IMDB Link: Pride and Glory
sez says-- another good cop/bad cop flick with strong acting, eye pleasing cinematography (great shots of elevated subway trains at night) and maybe a few too many multicolor lights at night shot up close and blurred, but still, all-in-all, it was full of strong images. But its got a problem that this doesn't help: The story is flat. They try and make up for this with blood splattered on windows (multiple times this is featured, once would have been enough) -- a threat to do serious harm to a baby-- and other types of gross violence. But you can't substitute blood and gore for a story. There is no doubt that an uncountable number of more "goodcop/bad cop" stories wait to be made into movies. It would have been a good idea if they had used the talent gathered to make this one and picked a different story. This leans heavily toward the not-so-good category.
mjc says: not healthy if a movie with this much violence becomes banal and devoid of genuine feeling. It trivializes the violence, especially when the acting is quite good thereby adding to the contradictions.
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