The Pawn

Really there's is nothing new in this one, but it has a certain feel to the copthriller genre. It's about two cop brothers and an adoptive father also a cop and superior of both. The main protagonist arrives in his hometown from New York were he was a highly decorated police lieutenant but managed to get into trouble on the mean streets of the big apple. At his arrival there's first a happy family reunion and soon we learn about the true assignment of his job on the force. His hometown is under siege and is being devoured by a large Russian crime syndicate. So not only the russians are to dispose the town holds his very own dark secrets within. Movies like this were big in the 80ts and in the end the millenium filmmaker wanted to revive these type of films in the style of Lethal Weapon, Dirty Harry, Die Hard etc... At the times they were already clichee-filled. They were about standard drug pushers, corruption, including noir elements, lots of action, shootings with graceful violence, and the kind of cop we all like ( You know what kind ). Although a nicely done movie with mimimum budget what doesn't deliver the maximum thrill. Like mentioned the action is ok it's not John Woo and the story has some to offer still not a unique screenplay.

Worth a watch if you like cop movies. I do.