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The old cry of the vendors at baseball parks who sold the scorecards with the cry, 'you can't tell the players without a scorecard' could hold true here. Even the issuance of uniforms to the police don't necessarily make them the good guys in Dark Blue.A decade earlier a film called Extreme Justice that starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Scott Glenn was made and it was also about the Special Investigation Squad, a group unique to the Los Angeles Police Department. In that one it was flat out stated that the group was a sanctioned death squad for the LAPD. It's not quite that here, in fact we're not sure what they do.Kurt Russell stars as a veteran of that squad and he comes from a law enforcement tradition going back in his family to the Old West. His background and disregard for due process is a quality that they like for that squad. He's got a young partner in Scott Speedman whom he's trying to show the ropes.The Special Investigation Squad is something that one of the high ranking officers in the LAPD, Ving Rhames wants to bring down. He sees it as a racist enclave and some of the statements by Russell and his superior Brendan Gleeson sure give Rhames enough cause to think as he does.Russell and Speedman are given an assignment to track down the two perpetrators of a robbery of a market in which four people were killed, one of them a dispatcher for the LAPD. But it seems as though everyone has a different agenda on this one and it ends in tragedy. In the cast I liked Speedman the best. He was great as the bright and eager young cop looking to make his bones so to speak with that squad. He and Kurt Russell played off well against each other.A couple of women also give standout performances in supporting roles. Lolita Davidovitch as Russell's long suffering wife who finally gives him his walking papers and Michael Michele who is working for Rhames, but dating Speedman. She's a girl with an agenda all her own.Dark Blue is a very good police drama, the second about LAPD's Special Investigations Squad and a much better film than Extreme Justice.
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